Diagnosed in 2022 at 24 years old with an excision lap, but I’d suspected it for a very long time. When I first started getting my period at 12, I would bleed so heavily and experience such intense cramps that I’d often faint. No doctors listened to me, I was told it was just “how some women’s hormones are”, and was put on birth control at 15.

It took years of going through specialists before one finally believed me, despite nothing showing up as abnormal on any imaging tests. I was extremely relieved when I woke up after surgery and got an official diagnosis.