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Post by cherry on Apr 6, 2007 4:20:55 GMT -5
A few months ago, Emma Bunton aka Baby Spice announced she was pregnant, and very happy to be so as she has endometriosis. Another girlband member here also has it and was really happy to get pregnant, Louise Redknapp who is really lovely like Emma. Being in a touring busy girl group must be really hard when you have endo with painful symptoms! A fair few of us know how it can affect your life so hats off to those two. Does anyone know of any other famous sufferers? xx
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Post by denna on Apr 6, 2007 6:12:22 GMT -5
didn't know she has endo..wow!!! that is hope
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Post by angelas on Apr 6, 2007 9:31:49 GMT -5
Marilyn Monroe also suffered from endo!! They think that is why she suffered so many miscarriages (amongst other reasons I assume!)
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Post by scarlett on Apr 6, 2007 15:35:08 GMT -5
Anna Friel has endo - she was told to get pregnant before 30 - where have we heard that one before!!!
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Post by Tiff on Apr 6, 2007 15:38:58 GMT -5
Seriously I was 20 when I first started hearing it!
It is interesting to know that all these famous people suffer like we do and are still able to do what they do with out showing it!
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Post by scarlett on Apr 6, 2007 16:02:43 GMT -5
yes, I find it a comfort somehow.
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Post by scarlett on Apr 6, 2007 16:05:35 GMT -5
hey congratulations Tiff - I didn't realise you were pregnant - that's fantastic!!! Sorry I missed that.
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Post by Tiff on Apr 6, 2007 16:08:33 GMT -5
Thank you scarlett! I am still very nervous since im just starting out in the pregnancy, every day is a step. After the 12 week mark we will be celebrating!
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Post by erzulie on Apr 6, 2007 16:40:43 GMT -5
I haven't heard of most of these people, so I guess I'll throw out a name that probably none of you have ever heard of. Back in 2003 I went to see my favorite band, the Indigo Girls, for the first time when they played a concert in the show I live in. It was a perfectly good show and both girls seemed to be in perfectly good health at the time, but two nights later the show my friend who was going to college in Iowa was planning to attended got cancelled due to "illness." The next show was cancelled as well. I wondered what the illness could be, because the Indigo Girls are known for having a very strong work ethic and for them to cancel a show due to illness is practically unheard of. I also wondered how they knew exactly how many shows to cancel. Well, a couple months later, an explanation arrived. One of the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray, posted a message on the website in which she said "Our winter tour season was fraught with challenges - health and weather. I am feeling good after 6 months of a mysterious abdominal pain. I had surgery for endometriosis but I am now happily walking around minus one gallbladder and one fallopian tube."
I completely understand now why those shows were cancelled--imagine standing for two hours on a stage in front of hundreds of people who want to see you act happy, all the while playing very energetic songs on a guitar that's pressing against your abdomen and trying to get all the chords and lyrics right while you're in extreme pain! And I thought my job was difficult...
Actually, knowing Amy Ray has endometriosis helped a lot when I was diagnosed in December 2005. At the time I was a member of the Endometriosis Research Center's online group. I don't want to knock the ERC, but man was that a depressing group. There were so many people there with chronic pain that was just getting worse all the time, people who had tried everything and who still couldn't work. Every day I was being bombarded with messages that were basically saying that this disease can't be cured, it just gets worse all the time and there's no way to really treat it and eventually you will have no life whatsoever etc. It was easy for me to believe at the time, since things had gone downhill for me in a hurry. In a matter of months I had gone from just having really bad cramps at that time of the month to having really bad pain ALL THE TIME. My surgery didn't fix things, and I just got really depressed feeling like it would only get worse. I wondered what I was going to do for the rest of my life. I even quit doing stuff around the house. I just didn't have the energy and I didn't feel like moving too much.
Then, one day, I thought, this is ridiculous NO ONE is meant to live this way! There has to be a way for me to live a happy life even if I can't get rid of this disease! So I started doing stuff again, and knowing Amy Ray had the disease too really inspired me. I didn't know anyone personally who had it, so I didn't really have anyone else to look to at the time. She makes a pretty good role model anyway because she is one busy woman. She's a musician both in a band and with a couple solo albums, plus she's an activist and she travels a lot for both of those things. In addition to that, she owns and runs an indie record label, and she seems pretty happy. She's obviously not letting the disease slow her down. So I figured, if she can do it I can do it. I got busy experimenting with herbs and changing my diet, and I just plain adopted a better attitude. I decided to make myself do stuff whether I felt up to it or not, and I actually feel a lot better when I'm busy. I still have some pretty bad cramps but I'm not in chronic pain anymore. I'm very sorry for the people who are giving in to the pain and misery, because you don't have to. I think it can only bring you down that much if you let it.
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