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In this episode Dr. Jose Eugenio-Colon walks us through his Journey to becoming an expert excision specialist and the trauma that led to furthering his education.

Dr. Jose` touches on why he advocates for teaching and properly educating Doctors and Patients from the Latino community. We talk about the different challenges we face as an endometriosis community. He explains:
-Adenomyosis, and the different types
-Infertility as it relates to adenomyosis and early castration
- Different surgical standards and techniques in different parts of the world, with an emphasis on the Dominican Republic and Caribbean. 
- The empathy and empathy burnout with doctors
- Bowel Endo/ rectal , and taking the time and proper steps to make sure it's fully excised and his continued efforts to get proper diagnosis and treatment earlier, so patients have a better a better quality of life.

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****Trigger Warning****
Dr. Jose' shares with us anatomy and disease slides, as well as surgical videos, which can be seen on our Endo Battery YouTube page https://youtu.be/5vPQfmpl7bw . Some images and discussion topics could be triggering to some. Please be sure to reach out to a mental health provider if you find yourself in crisis, or call 1-800-372-Talk(8255), for the crisis hotline. 

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In this episode we are joined by Chelsea Taylor to recap the first day of the Endometriosis Summit. We talk about what we learned that really resonated with with in the surgical panel. This like;
- Different approaches and surgical techniques between each doctor 
- Bowel resection technique 
- Endometriosis Vs. endometriomas and different approaches taken by different Doctors, and different cases.
- Bladder endometriosis
- Different takes on preventing adhesions and 2nd looks
- Informed consent with Dr. Jeff Arrington 
- Overall how impactful having both practitioners and patients in one room together.
We talked about so much and didn't even get to cover it all. It was such a great experience that Dr. Sallie Sarrel and Dr. Andrea Vidali have made such a significant impact in the Endometriosis community with putting this Summit on.

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In this episode Katie walks us through her story of;
- Years of painful periods 
- Normalizing debilitating pain
- struggling to find a diagnosis
- Being misdiagnosed
-Being Gaslit
- Multiple doctors
- Being told she's crazy
- Painful Sex
- Extremely painful flairs 
- Being an advocate for those in the LGBTQ+ community

All for her wife, Allie, to assure her that unrelenting painful periods are not normal. Katie and Allie take us through their journey trying to find healing. They took steps to:
- Do their research
- Find a mental health provider
- See an excision specialist
- Find a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist and Abdominal Massage Therapist
- Now more advocating for those LGBTQ+ community suffering from Endometriosis.

All while navigating the healthcare system as nurses.

This is a very real and raw episode that is fun but also relatable.

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Megan walks us through different approaches to:
- Recognizing Endometriosis with common symptoms as well as those less obvious symptoms
- Learning from cases that are challenging
- How gut health effects our bodies balance
- Introducing Low-dose naltrexone  (LDN) as a way to help manage pain with Endometriosis pain
- Balancing hormones post surgical hysterectomy
- The need for progesterone and the need for estrogen
- What should our hormone levels should look like
- Options for testing your hormones
- Managing health management tools in both western and eastern medicine
- Knowing as a practitioner when to refer to a specialist
- Things that can help reduce inflammation and pain symptoms

All with a balanced approach using both functional and western medicine.

About Megan:
Megan Anderson, ANP, is a Nurse Practitioner, who received her nursing degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004. Megan worked as a staff nurse in both pediatric cardiology/surgery and gynecology/oncology for 3 years before starting graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006. She worked at a Federally Qualified Health Center for 3 years during graduate school before becoming a Board Certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner in 2009.

From 2017 until the start of COVID in 2020, Megan worked at a functional medicine clinic in town called Balanced Well-Being Healthcare.  There, she grew as a clinician and honed her skills with functional medicine diagnostic and treatment options. Helping people address underlying chronic issues and get back to feeling their best is what feeds her soul, and she feels grateful every day for the opportunity to help people identify ways to feel and live their best life.  She has since continued to work in a functional medicine practice, seeing patients all over the country in a virtual manner, with the California Center for Functional Medicine.  Women's health concerns, autoimmune conditions, and gut health are her favorite things to address with patients.
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Alex of Invisable Iconic advocates for those in Australia. She gives us a glimpse of her Endometriosis journey and the lack of care and helped she has recived in results frustration, draining for her, and mental struggles. All to drive her to advocate more for Endo care in Australia. Alex talks about ways and pushing for systimatic changes in care by:
- pushing to educate more doctors to do expert excision.
- making excision more accessible for them to get training with providing more government funding.
- changing the narrative around Endometriosis and all that it encompasses.

Alex talks about being movtived because her surgeries to advocate more for Endo. Her surgeries that she has already had weren't  enough, and she is still struggling with Endo even though she had the 'best' docs in Australia perform her surgery. She discussed what her next steps might be, but is just frustrated for the lack of experienced and well trained excision specialists in Australia.

We wanted to bring light to what others are dealing with in other countries and ways people are pushing the narrative and helping other's in their country fight the Endo fight too. Things need to and won't change unless people like Alex, us, and many others push for better education, care, and advocacy.

We see and hear you, Alex!

Take a listen and let us know if you have any ideas for others in other countries.

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In this episode we talk about how the effects that Endometriosis plays on our mental health. Keara walks us through:
-What gaslighting is
-The need to have a support group
-Understanding the challenges healthcare providers have in treating their patients
- "secondary Endo" what is that?
- Adjusting our mindset and emotions after disappointment and hopelessness.
- Ways to support your mental health with this invasive disease.

We talk about all these things and more as a way that you can recharge your battery.

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Inge gets vulnerable with her story and the challenging obstacles of;
- being ignored
- being confronted with feeling crazy
- being misdiagnosed 
- chasing symtoms, and a diagnosis
- navigating her own pain and diagnosis while being in healthcare
- figuring out next steps of "secondary Endo"
- hormone imbalance and finding solutions
and talking about how dealing with endometriosis doesn't stop life from happening all around us.

Inge's story and vulnerability will resonate with so many people, you wont want to miss it.

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Chelsea invites us into her story. A story filled with delayed diagnoses, misdiagnoses, chased diagnoses, and trauma of being gaslit. Chelsea was made to feel like she was mentally ill because they had no other idea why should would be complaining of pain, an all too familiar story of many endometriosis patients. She walks us through how she because a better advocate for herself and others that have complicated cases. She also gives us hope that we can get the help we need to improve the quality of our lives. 

If you've been:
-Misdiagnosed
-Gaslit
-Told her have a mental disability
-Been over medicated and under seen
-Had lingering effects of delayed diagnoses
-Used medicine as a band-aid for your pain
-Had to advocate hard to be heard
- Looking for hope

Then Chelsea's Story will resonate with you. 

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In this episode we have the massive honor of sitting down with Nancy Petersen from Nancy's Nook, which most know her today from an ever growing Facebook educational page for Endometriosis currently supporting about 170k people! Her mission for this page is, "Supporting you to understand the disease, advocate for your health, and get the best possible treatment."  We believe she is the true pioneer and attribute the  progress of Endometriosis treatment to her trail blazing years of traveling around, educating on this disease,  and creating this group to support the ever growing numbers in the fight for this disease!

Nancy walks us through her journey of diagnosis, failed treatment with ablation surgery and a total hysterectomy leaving her with untreated leg pain, which ultimately lead her to finding Dr. Redwine and his studies.

Nancy tells us the story of forming Nancy's Nook with an effort to share information to people seeking non-big pharma education and research to all patients in effort to better advocate for themselves.  Part of this education is knowing that endometriosis takes not only a physical toll on our bodies, but a toll on our mental health. Nancy talks about how far the Endometriosis and Adenomyosis community has come, however, the abundance of gaslighting and trauma is still too much. 

Once given a diagnosis, if surgery is not done by a skilled Endometriosis surgeon, disease is often missed. We learn that reproductive organs such as, uterus, ovaries, cervix are not the main location of Endometriosis, but the lower pelvis is a big culprit to this invasive disease.

Nancy is a wealth of knowledge and educates for women's health.
She shares her expertise on:
- proper diagnosis
- gaslighting
- chronic pain
- proper education
- mental health resources
- continued advocacy on Endometriosis and other chronic diseases that often can be closely associated with Endometriosis.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a notebook because you will be enlighten along the way! We hope you enjoy and learn just as much as we did from Nancy Petersen!

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In this episode we have an honest, vulnerable, and raw conversation surrounding being an adult and communicating our endometriosis journey to our loved ones. Alanna's mom, Sharon, shares what she's learned as well as things she wished she would have known.  We talk about ways that Alanna could have been better at effectively communicated her struggles with her endometriosis and adenomyosis journey to have gotten more support from her family.  But also about the mental health and fatigue that comes along with these diseases that can make thinking outside of the now a little more hard because of how demanding the chronic disease is.

We hope you listen and share with you friends and family that support you in this journey. 

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