Doctors Dismissed My Period Pain For 12 Years — Until I Got This Diagnosis

 Doctors Dismissed My Period Pain For 12 Years — Until I Got This Diagnosis

The process has shown me how much society normalizes women’s pain.

Years later, when I was 27, the OB/GYN Id been seeing said to me: You might have this condition called endometriosis. In order to diagnose it, the doctor said theyd need to do an invasive procedure c…