In Sixteen Years of Endometriosis

Updated 1/2024. Amy and Brittany talk about:

—how diet, PFT, excision surgery, more may help diminish or manage digestive problems

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🔗Resources to find a surgeon

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Updated 1/2024. Amy and Brittany talk about:

—how a high majority of people of endo present with digestive problems

—some reasons why we might have digestive problems with endo.

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🔗Constipation, SIBO & Other GI Issues Can Be A Red Flag For This Condition – This article has an except from the book Beating Endo, by Drs Iris Orbuch and Amy Stein. However, prior to the excerpt, the definition of endo is wrong, so keep that in mind.

🔗Yuan M, Li D, Zhang Z, Sun H, An M, Wang G. Endometriosis induces gut microbiota alterations in mice. Hum Reprod. 2018 Apr 1;33(4):607-616. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dex372. PMID: 29462324.

🔗Mathias JR, Franklin R, Quast DC, Fraga N, Loftin CA, Yates L, Harrison V. Relation of endometriosis and neuromuscular disease of the gastrointestinal tract: new insights. Fertil Steril. 1998 Jul;70(1):81-8. doi: 10.1016/s0015-0282(98)00096-x. PMID: 9660426.

🔗Endo Belly – Vital Health Endometriosis Center blog post.

🔗Endometriosis and Gastrointestinal symptoms – Article by Dr. Iris Orbuch, co-author of Beating Endo.

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Updated 2/2023. How do we keep going even when everything seems impossible? When life just keeps throwing problem after problem at us, how do we find the strength to go to work, take care of the kids, and to keep doing the things we need to do, when we really just want to curl up under the covers? Amy and Brittany talk about Amy’s health challenge over the past year, the inspiration she found in certain books, and how learning to be with our feelings can help us work through them and come out the other side.

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BOOKS MENTIONED: Man's Search for Meaning, The Four Agreements, The Power of Now, Full Catastrophe Living

AMY'S 📖: Finding Peace with a Devastating Disease by Amy Corfeli

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Episode updated 11/2022. Lupron is commonly prescribed as a medical treatment for endometriosis. How effective is it at actually alleviating symptoms? Is it worth the serious side effects and risks - some of which can be permanent? We talk about the hidden data, the falsified data, and the cherry-picked data that the published data is based on.

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🔗Lupron

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Updated 2/2023. How many of us feel like we react to difficult situations in ways we don’t want to? They say that the only thing we can truly control in life is the way we face our problems, yet most of us feel like we have no control over our reactions at all! In this episode, Amy and Brittany talk about how to break our subconscious reactions. We give examples on how we can break and replace various types of unwanted negative thought patterns with new, wanted ways of thinking. We tell a few stories of different unwanted ways we’ve reacted to our problems, including one story which involves Amy’s menstrual blood and a celebrity!

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Episode updated 11/2022. Orilissa is a new oral GnRh antagonist that is being prescribed to manage pain associated with endometriosis. Today we look at the data to see how effective it actually is at treating pain. We explore the data from the clinical trials on Orilissa, the data hidden in the supplemental appendix of the published research, and the conclusions on its effectiveness and safety by ICER, an independent research institute.

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🔗Orilissa

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Episode updated 8/2025. Amy and Brittany talk about how doctors are often misinformed about treatment for endometriosis, including the benefits, risks, and limitations of GnRh drugs. We discuss some ways pharmaceutical companies influence the doctor and/or the patient through marketing tactics, “awareness” campaigns, and more.

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🔗Lupron

🔗Orilissa

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Updated 2/2023. Do you have beliefs about yourself or your illness that are limiting you in some way? Limiting your growth, your opportunities, or your chances to feel even just a little bit better? Often times our beliefs are subconscious, and we don’t even realize we have them or how they are affecting us. Amy and Brittany talk about how to figure out what our limiting beliefs are, how to change them, and a few common examples of negative self-talk and limiting beliefs around illness.

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Updated 2/2023. Many of us have specific, individualized habits/routines that we follow to help us manage our symptoms or improve our quality of life. These might include eating a certain way, having a specific sleep/wake time, getting enough daily movement, or anything else. Yet how do we actually stick to the habits/routines we want? There is a whole science, and an art, to building habits. Today Amy and Brittany discuss them and give tips to make habit formation easier.

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Updated 1/2023. Do you ever feel like endo is in charge of your life, and not you? How can we take back control over our lives and take back our power from endo? We talk about several ways we can take back our lives - on both a physical and emotional level - from the grips of endo.

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