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Teen’s Tenacity Leads to Endometriosis Diagnosis: Video Story

Because so few people know that 70% of teens who experience chronic pelvic pain are later given an endometriosis diagnosis, many young women suffer years of pain when it’s overlooked as a potential diagnosis. Endometriosis is generally thought of as unique to grown women and not considered as a possibility for adolescents and teens.

One young woman, Erika, would like to change that lack of awareness for young girls and teens experiencing chronic pelvic pain. Endometriosis Excision Ends Teen’s Years of Pelvic Pain is Erika’s video story of her four-year journey to reclaim her life without disabling pelvic pain.

“I just want other girls to realize that there is hope. You can regain your life. It’s not a life sentence of pain. If you get to the right surgeon you can regain your life and you can progress as a person without pain.”

Erika’s Endometriosis Diagnosis Mission

Erika has “gone public” with her story in the hope of helping other young girls and teens to avoid what she had to endure. Erika’s story recounts the battle she and her mother fought to overcome years of pelvic pain and misdiagnosis to finally reclaim her life.

Erika’s story – and her mother’s story – is a story of resilience and determination to find answers that would restore Erika’s life. Today, after her endometriosis surgery, she is without pelvic pain and living a normal life. Her message: “You can regain your life. It’s not a life sentence of pain.”

Erika had help – her mother, family and a streak of perseverance that finally got her a correct diagnosis of endometriosis. And she’s now just as tenacious in wanting young women and their families to insist on having their physicians consider the possibility of an endometriosis diagnosis in their diagnostic quest.

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Teen's Tenacity Leads to Endometriosis Diagnosis: Video Story
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Teen's Tenacity Leads to Endometriosis Diagnosis: Video Story
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An endometriosis diagnosis is often not considered when young women experience chronic pelvic pain. Erika knows otherwise - this is her video story. 

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