Admin’s Note: I was really irked that I didn’t get any notifications about the Worldwide Endometriosis March AGAIN this year until two days before the event. They appear to have a pattern of not effectively using social media to get the word out enough ahead of time. The first time I saw anything about it […]

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MYTH! The Endometriosis Summit writes: “Structural racism and implicit bias permeates many institutions throughout America, devastating the lives of African Americans. Healthcare, made of the medical institutions that reign under its umbrella, is no exception. The field of gynecology has an especially egregious history of horrific crimes of racial nature. The proclaimed “father of gynecology,” […]

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I have updated information on two pages on this site – Support and Endo Organisations – which are always found in the header bar above. And I have updated the Organisations sidebar on the right of this page which contains the same information as the Organisations page itself.

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Myth! endometriosis.org writes:“‘Women’s problems’ perplexed nineteenth century doctors, who saw them as indicative of women’s unstable and delicate psychological constitutions. Even though attitudes towards women improved during the twentieth century, some of the old beliefs still linger unconsciously, and affect the medical profession’s attitudes towards women’s complaints, including period pain. “As a result, while seeking […]

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MYTH! EndoAlert (site no longer exists) wrote:“Anyone claiming to be able to cure endometriosis with whatever product they are selling should be considered skeptically. It’s improper to say they “cure” the disease as there is no cure. What they are doing, if successful, is relieving the symptoms of endometriosis. It is common sense that a […]

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MYTH! The Endometriosis Research Center (ERC) says:“Hysterectomy – not a cure and inappropriate for young women!” Endometriosis.org says:“Hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus) does not guarantee relief from endometriosis-related symptoms and can neither be classified as a “treatment“, nor as a “cure” for endometriosis. Furthermore, surgery is surgeon dependent, and if all the endometriosis is […]

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Fact or Myth? Endometriosis is a rare disease. Myth! “Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases, affecting more than 5.5 million women in North America alone.” – The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).“It is estimated that between 2 percent and 10 percent of American women – or 5.5 million […]

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This year during Endometriosis Awareness Month, I would like to see people reprogram their use of gender-specifics. I would like us to remove the words ‘women’, ‘girl’, ‘ladies’, ‘female’, etc from our speech when we talk about Endometriosis. Replace with generic ‘people’ in order to respect our endo siblings in the trans community. In times […]

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MYTH!!!! Dr. Joseph W. Krotec and RN Sharon Perkins write in Endometriosis for Dummies: “Even doctors used to believe that endometriosis was a psychological disease. The prevailing attitude was that, if you just stopped thinking about yourself all the time, all the pain would disappear. Some doctors actually believed that a woman’s positive attitude would […]

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Endometriosis is an autoimmune illness that one is born with. Doctors do not know what causes endometriosis – there may be several causes. So much misinformation and ignorance still exists about the origins of endo that many people spend years being dismissed, degraded, and mis-diagnosed by doctors before surgical diagnosis confirms endometriosis. People spend many more years being treated like […]

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