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What is endometriosis and how does it affect women's health?

What Is Endometriosis And How Does It Affect Women's Health?

Endometriosis Awareness Month: Woman describes 7-year battle to get endometriosis diagnosis

Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age in the U.S., according to ACOG.

Endometriosis Awareness Month: Woman describes seven-year battle to get endometriosis diagnosis

Taylor Keefe(NEW YORK) March marks World Endometriosis Awareness Month dedicated to recognizing and advocating for the estimated 190 million women worldwide who suffer from endometriosis. Taylor Keefe was 13 years old when she first saw a gynecologist. "Every time I was on my period, I had no functionality. I would be bent over in pain for days at a time, screaming and crying," said Keefe, now a 26-year-old clinical mental health counselor in New Jersey. "After two years of missing school and not being myself, my parents were concerned so I went to a gynecologist." It wasn't until seven years later after many more doctor visits, pain medications and various hormonal treatments that Keefe was diagnosed with endometriosis, a disease where the tissue forming the inner lining of the uterus is found outside of the uterus such as within the fallopian tubes, ovaries, bladder and intestines. Lesions from endometriosis can cycle monthly with the hormonal environme