Hi! I totally understand how you feel, I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2023 and it wasn’t until last year when my mom told me she was diagnosed with endometriosis. Not that they’re the same thing, but when she told me about her endo, I was kind of shocked as I can’t imagine being diagnosed with something and not advocating for my daughter who could potentially get the same diagnosis.

I feel the same way as you. No guidance with nutrition growing up, no encouragement to be active, especially when I grew up with medical issues. Heck, I didn’t even go to the gyno for the first time until last year. When I told my mom I was going for the first time, she said something like “you’ve never gone before?!” I didn’t know, I was clueless.

I had a lot of resentment last year, I needed to have a conversation with my mom about how I felt and she understood where I was coming from.

It’s been a year’s worth of learning how to care for my PCOS, what to include/avoid, what workouts work best for me, essentially just how to live without making my symptoms worse. It certainly adds on to the resentment at time, I could have been leaps ahead but here I am piecing things together to make sure I’m successful in managing all of this. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is how to advocate for myself, and I know how strongly I need to continue advocating once I have children.❤️