04/11/2024
It is stories like these that inspires me to continue doing excellent safe endometriosis surgery no matter how long it may take. 🙏🏿 It’s all about improving the livelihood of women especially when they are not heard.
[Photo Taken: 25 Oct 24]
1 year ago was my first visit to a doctor for the pain I was feeling in my groin.
1 year ago!
Over the past year, I have seen several medical professionals.
In 1 year after not picking up anything major on my x-rays, ultrasound, MRI, I have randomly been ‘diagnosed’ with:
- Possible Abdominal tendinitis
- Maybe it is Tendinitis of the groin
- Anxiety
- I have been given meds for depression to help relieve the pain
- I have been made to feel that I am making the pain up.
- Possible IBS was thrown into the mix
- At one stage, I was told I could have a hernia.
- Hip dysplasia.
- Possible Pincer impingement.
I was told to rest.
I was questioned hundreds of times about whether the pain was actually there.
And the more I was questioned, the more I questioned.
I was basically told to just see the physio because it can only be a sports injury (The physio I was seeing was absolutely amazing)
But, me being me, I couldn’t just leave it at that.
Because I know my body.
I live in this body 24/7.
And then, finally, I felt heard.
Doctor Dingiswayo listened, heard and acted.
“It looks like there is a mass on your left o***y which can be the cause of your groin pain”
“It is most likely endometriosis, but we need to get in there to see what is going on and do a biopsy”
Tumor marker blood tests, 5 weeks of overthinking, surgery for over 3 hours...
STAGE 4 ENDOMETRIOSIS.
Everything is benign.
Tears of joy.
Because I went home with answers and not just pain pills and “oh it can’t be that bad”
You know your body.
Advocate for yourself.
