It takes, on average, 9 years for women to get a proper endometriosis diagnosis. That’s nearly a decade of pain with no relief 😣 Learn why this and other uterinehealth conditions stump HCPs — and what we can do to help.
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, which should work to help treat her cramps as long as nothing is going on with her uterus. If she’s taking pain relieversbirth control pills and still in a lot of pain, we need to pay attention to that, and look for something likeThe next step is to do a pelvic exam, but you can’t necessarily find endometriosis this way. So you do an ultrasound, but endometriosis doesn’t always show up in an ultrasound because the masses can be tiny.
I also like to know which medications she’s tried. If she’s on birth control pills, I ask how long she’s been taking them and whether they’ve made a difference in her symptoms. Things like that can give me helpful information about what’s going on.
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