Category Archives: Endometriosis

Sex, Drugs, and Pain Control

By Rae | Published: April 24, 2010
Allison brought up a great point in a comment on my last post: when it comes to choices related to reproductive health, why not err on the side of caution? The most obvious answer is that we should not settle for error if finding the correct answer is an option. But certainty is hard to [...]
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Endometriosis and Me – Part 3

By Rae | Published: February 26, 2010
Lessons Learned from Endometriosis I am usually pretty negative when I think about endometriosis, but I realize that it has given me some valuable lessons. Money matters for health. I took a class on health economics in college, so I should have learned the basics of the correlation between financial resources and health. But I [...]
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Endometriosis and Me – Part 2

By Rae | Published: February 24, 2010
Improvement About a year ago I began to try various diet modifications and supplements to cope with the pain of endometriosis. I was quite skeptical since I had previously tried taking flaxseed oil capsules and eliminating all the “foods to avoid” but needed something to do to make myself feel as though I had some control [...]
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Endometriosis and Me – Part I

By Rae | Published: February 23, 2010
Sarah at Fumblingtowardgrace just posted her PCOS story and inspired me to do the same. Except that I don’t have a PCOS story, so I will stick with endometriosis. In any case, check Fumblingtowardgrace out for great honest posts from a  ”traditional girl living in a not-so-traditional world.” I first learned about endometriosis in my [...]
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