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My Endo Story




Natural Amenorrhea
I was pain-free for almost two years. Pregnancy really did help alleviate my symptoms. Also, I breastfed my first child for 30 months and for 17 months I did not have a menstrual cycle after the birth of my first child. My menstrual cycles still are uncomfortable. As they have progressed, they are getting more and more uncomfortable. However, I only need to take between 50-200 mg of Ibuprofen now in a day and generally altogether now up to 800 mg throughout a cycle. I feel as if my quality of life is back since the temporary effects of the laparoscopy, pregnancy, and breastfeeding without a menstrual cycle.


Overall Thoughts

Before I got a positive pregnancy test, I was once where you are, hoping, wishing and praying it wasn't impossible for me. I am now in a place where I have moved passed having Endometriosis, I know its apart of me, but it doesn't have to define me or my dreams of motherhood. If anything it humbles me and reminds me of how blessed I am with each pregnancy, as to remind me not to take what I do have for granted. There is always the worry about Endometriosis determining how many children I will be able to have and when, but it makes me grateful to have been pregnant and carry at least one baby to full term. Endometriosis always keeps me grateful.
“Believing may not be the whole answer or even the cure, but it’s a start.”
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