endometriosis

If areas could be targeted, it could be a massive quality of life improvement for those with endometriosis.

Most women I've talked to are still under the impression that endometriosis can only be diagnosed by laparoscopy.

These days I hear about endometriosis once a month or so, mostly because of outspoken women advocates.

As an example, the Australian National Action Plan for endometriosis is from 2018.

My girlfriend has endometriosis, I hadn't really read much about it until now, thank you for writing!

I'm aware of this (I'm working on a genome sequencing project to cure my wife's endometriosis).

While I might be sympathetic to what you’re saying, endometriosis is not a very rare condition.

I think it's probably just really hard to diagnose uncommon diseases in people (although endometriosis in particular may be fairly common).

Maybe they have heavy period cramps (see also endometriosis).

In what way is endometriosis related to a) hormonal birth control (estrogen and progestin), b) sexually transmitted disease, c) age, d) pregnancy, e) obesity?

I think because it's seen as gyn health (though endometriosis can occur in men in rare cases), people often don't feel comfortable talking about it.

According to my wife’s surgeon (she had endometriosis removed in 2008) there is some belief that the condition can actually cause the womb to become less hospitable to egg development, i.e.

I really regret using "common" here, because the issue with endometriosis is the complexity of the disease, lack of understanding, and lack of clinical management tools.

At about 10% of women of reproductive age, endometriosis is way over on the “common medical conditions” side, not the “more rare stuff” side.

In many cases, negative reactions to IUDs are indicators of other more severe reproductive organ issues like Endometriosis.

Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial like tissue outside the uterus.