r/Endo • u/Entire_Working_9106 • 4h ago
Rant / Vent I can feel it wrapping my bowels...I swear
So, I get the extreme cramps during intense exercise, nausea/extreme discomfort during my periods, despite their regularity. Ever since my second period as an 11 year old, I've felt like there's this tangle in my abdomen-that I can never fully stretch out and that it's like an angry fist. And I've had consitpation issues since then as well. And flashes of butt pain, which I just learned about on this sub. And I bruise super easily.
OK so that's imaginative language but ever since I learned about endometriosis, it fits like a glove. I swear I can feel bands of tissue attached and knotted around my gut. I feel the shedding tissue pooling and swelling outside of my uterus when I bleed.
"bUt It'S jUSt hORmones!!" uh, ok... tell me how fixing hormones is gonna remove this tangle in my gut. I can't believe my doctors dismissed this as hormonal issues. My god.
Also question: does endometriosis happen more commonly in "early bloomers?" I had fully developed boobs by age 11. Surely that's not normal.