For Future of Personal Health, our scientific and medical director Dr. Dan Martin explains the primary cause for significant delays in diagnosing and treating endometriosis: doctors normalizing pain. “Normalization of pain is the idea that all women have pain, and therefore, their pain is usually normal,” Dr. Martin writes, “When the pain is normalized, a woman will not have a follow-up protocol with her physician. The doctor will tell her to come back ‘as needed,’ which she may not do as the pain increases because she is too afraid of being told again that it’s simply part of being a woman.” 

In poetic and decisive language, Anjali shares how endometriosis has affected her life; she describes pain as a “state in which you must be as still as possible, otherwise, the sharp corner of a heavy wooden dresser weighing down on you will finally cave into your ovary and crush it into nonexistence.” Anjali also writes eloquently about how she not only found incredible relief through acupuncture, but also experienced personal growth through her struggles with this disease as well as through dance. You don’t want to miss this story—it’s one of perseverance, pain relief, and accepting your body and self throughout even its most difficult periods.

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