ANTONIA'S ENDOMETRIOSIS AND PELVIC PAIN PAGE

Support and Information for Women with
Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain

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Welcome to my endometriosis and pelvic pain site.

My name is Antonia. I am a 32 year old woman who suffers from endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain.

Ever since I was diagnosed with endometriosis in 1994, I've felt as though I've been fighting a long and weary battle. Sometimes I have felt like giving up and other times it has been worth the effort.

Over the past few years, I've tried to read as much as I can about the disease and about pain in general. To begin with I wanted to try to find out what was happening to my body. After a while, however, I began to realise that I was able to answer questions as well as ask them. By helping myself, I was now able to help others too.

This is why I've put this web-site together. Whether you suffer from endometriosis, or whether you suffer from chronic pelvic pain, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that we're all in this together - and as long as we know that we're not alone in this battle of ours, then we're able to help each other out.

It is amazing how few people still know about endometriosis and how ignorant they are, despite the fact that so many suffer from the disease. After all, it's not as though it's life threatening, and at the end of the day, it's only a "woman's problem" - right?

WRONG! And I hope that by reading these pages you'll see just how much women with endometriosis and pelvic pain have to endure. So if you happen to stumble across my page while you're browsing the internet...please don't browse on by? Please stop and have a read. You never know, you may end up helping someone you know.

I do hope that you find my web-site informative as well as supportive. I've tried to be as honest and as open as I can. This pain has affected my life in a way I didn't think was possible. If you do like it here, please point other women in my direction and let them know that there's someone here willing to listen.

Before I sign off, I would like to thank everyone I've met on-line since I signed on in 1997. If it weren't for my fellow sufferers, there wouldn't be a page here. Without your support and encouragement, I'd have given up years ago. So thank you all, so very much. I would be lost without my "endo sisters", truly I would.

Please note that I have not had any medical training whatsoever. Everything that I have written here, is either from books that I have read, or is taken from personal experience. If you think that you might have endometriosis, then please visit your local GP, before you jump to any conclusions from what you're about to read. Thank you.