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Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding.

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me.

I have something called endometriosis, and I was told by my gynecologist that I needed to go on a specific diet if I didn't want to have any more surgery.

There was endometrial tissue outside of where it belonged, and the cancer developed from that.

Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn't in sight until it becomes unbearable.

I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.