Endometriosis affects approximately one in ten American females, causing significant pain and disability. Unfortunately, it can take patients seven to nine years to receive a proper diagnosis, highlighting a substantial knowledge gap in healthcare regarding women’s health issues. Recent research reframes endometriosis as a neuroinflammatory disorder, not merely localized pain from tissue in an incorrect position. Retrograde menstruation plays a crucial role in the development of endometriosis, contributing to lesions that cause infertility and flaring pain, which significantly impacts daily functioning.
On average, it takes sufferers seven to nine years to get a diagnosis. That startling statistic... is a powerful example of the gap in knowledge about women's and men's health.
It is not purely a gynecological condition. In the past three to five years there's been a complete reframing of this disorder as a neuroinflammatory whole-body condition.
We're not talking a little bit of pain here... [People] can't function. And unlike menstrual cramping that occurs during a period, pain from endometriosis can flare at any time.
Endometriosis... involves tissue from the uterus, begins with a process known as retrograde menstruation, in which menstrual blood flows back up the fallopian tubes and into the pelvis.
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