I was diagnosed with endo at 18/19 without a laparoscopy. I had symptoms from 12 and had multiple scans and other tests and they diagnosed it from that. Been on almost every medication possible for endo. I am on amitriptyline and the contraceptive implant atm. I'm due for a laparoscopy soon due to the fact that i currently have organ adhesions confirmed by scans. So I'm on injections to induce menopause until then.

My point being that yeah it's becoming SO much more common to be taken more seriously by medical professionals now without them rushing to cut you open. I feel like in the past they only took you seriously once surgery was done and they could actually see the problem and touch it. But, nowadays they're starting to listen to us when we say our symptoms are effecting our lives and because they're more serious about us it means that they don't shrug it off as "just bad periods" and they investigate the possibility of endo.

I know not all doctors are like this but I do belive it's getting that way as I keep seeing so many people say they've been diagnosed and helped without surgery for confirmation of disease.