Endometriosis affects about 1 in 10 women—but many go years without a diagnosis, often told their symptoms are “just a bad period.”
When painful periods, heavy bleeding, pain with intimacy, and bowel movement changes are dismissed, conditions like endometriosis and fibroids can be missed—and effective treatment delayed. These are complex conditions that often require specialized care that’s not always easy to access.
We’ll explore what changes when we start listening more closely—to symptoms, and to patients themselves.