Not life-threatening,but life-altering: the disease that neither its victims nor medicine know enough aboutA disease that affects one in 10 women of childbearing age, that forces young girls to engage days off school, or older women to abandon careers and condemns others to childlessness should not be near-invisible. And yet endometriosis is rarely discussed,and when it is, it is often obscured by myths suggesting that women themselves are in some way to blame. Many are ashamed to confess to suffering, or often doctors seem ill-prepared to diagnose and treat the disease. It is a secret plague; yet it could afflict as many as 176 million women around the world. Related: Endometriosis took my fertility,and part of my self Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com