Jenn
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Post by Jenn on Oct 30, 2006 20:42:05 GMT -5
Does anyone know the easiest way to explain to someone what Endometriosis is? It has come up in conversation and when asked what is it I find it hard to explain. Thanks!
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Post by cherry on Oct 30, 2006 22:02:02 GMT -5
I just say my womb lining grows in other parts of my abdomen (for now), which causes pain and inflammation, and what is essentially internal bleeding each month, where the blood has nowhere to go. So the blood then causes my insides to stick together in places causing more pain and complications. If they are very close I do point out other things like the effect on my bladder, the hormone problems and certain allergies and intolerances I have developed over the last 8 years. A lot of people have then gone away and looked at it on this site and others though so its probably easier to point them in the right direction sometimes, and let them find out themselves. As I was coming out of hospital i gave my boyfriend the news over the phone... by the time I had got to his house an hour later, he had found this site to help me, researched the worst parts like infertility and treatment by google, and managed to explain to his mum too. so it goes to show the info is easy enough to find for people who don't know anything about it! It is so hard to explain though... especially to an unsympathetic ear
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Post by ouchy on Oct 30, 2006 22:33:05 GMT -5
One lady on here describes it as internal bleeding each month! I've tried using this explanation, and people seem to take me more seriously.
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Post by denna on Oct 30, 2006 22:54:31 GMT -5
thanks-i also find it hard to explain to other people..this is easy.
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Post by cherry on Oct 31, 2006 5:06:05 GMT -5
The internal bleeding one does always gets people doesn't it! I think saying it like that takes away the 'lady thing' about that sometimes makes people shut down. I have to speak to my course leader later today about being off so I might try that as my opening line
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Jenn
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Post by Jenn on Nov 2, 2006 23:24:31 GMT -5
Thanks! This will make it very easy to explain and for them to understand!
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Post by vatechgrad on Nov 3, 2006 8:40:55 GMT -5
I just say the cells that make up the lining of the uterus get into the rest of the body. Normal people's body will attack cells adn destroy them when they are in foreigh locations. Endo people's body doesn't attack it so it grows and then sheds and all of this causes pain.
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Post by sandcastle on Nov 9, 2006 9:48:12 GMT -5
This may sound ridiculous, but I didn't know that it caused internal bleeding! I just thought that your body worked hard to shed the extra tissue.
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Post by ouchy on Nov 9, 2006 10:11:02 GMT -5
^ Yup. Each month the implants break down and bleed when you have your period. I think that is how the endo "spreads."
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