It's not just a period and the pain isn't normal - endometriosis leaves one in seven women in often excruciating pain and threatens their work, their health and their fertility. or signup to continue reading But all too often it is overlooked, misdiagnosed or not taken seriously by medical practitioners, campaigners say, thanks to, at best, unconscious bias and, at worst, medical misogyny. "No man would put up with this.
We'd have a cure by now," former Liberal politician turned endometriosis activist Maree Davenport tells AAP. "If you had a man with ..
. pain, periods and bleeding from their body and problems having a poo and pee, and problems with intimacy - not just libido, but painful sex - imagine if a bloke was putting up with that? "We would have had a cure through massive research maybe a decade ago. It has been dismissed and there is stigma.
" One-in-seven, or one million, women suffer from endometriosis in Australia, a disease where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus, causing often severe pain and possible fertility issues. But thanks to misinformation, lack of education, lack of basic medical care in some rural areas and a general attitude that women just have to put up with a certain level of pain as part of being a woman, the condition is often overlooked. On average, it takes a woman six-and-a-half years to be diagnosed in Australia.
"As a teenager, for years, I had experienced ...
migraines, severe back and body pain, collapsing a.