Hello

[ChildofGod07]

Hey, I'm new. I've been looking for a community of women like me. I'm having a hard day... For a while now. But I went to a new family Dr after my move. When we started talking about my endometriosis she didn't seem to care about how much pain I'm in or have been in. How much this has effected my life. I was telling her I plan on getting a hysterectomy Ina year or two because of the severity and I've already had two surgeries in 3 years. When I was diagnosed I was already at stage 3 then at my last surgery it had escalated and my overies had adhesion to my uterus. And she replied "and?..." I was so annoyed, how could she dismiss me like that. I just feel invisible. And in pain.

[SavageGold]

You poor thing. It's awful when people who are meant to care don't! I recently learned a lot of health care providers do a stint in A&E to get as much experience as possible. In that environment their job is simply to keep people alive. Everything else is secondary. And pain isn't of concern. Pain is not considered life threatening.

At work today, a member of staff called me a wreck because there's so many things wrong with me that I have deal with as part of my work. And I'm now avoiding her as much as she's avoiding me. It's not like I did anything to make myself have this debilitating condition.

[Cailleach]

Honestly, do not see that woman again. See someone else in the practice, or change practices. We put up with enough, it is really important to have a sympathetic and interested GP. Xx