[DOWNLOAD] "From Pain to Wisdom: What I Learned from My Endometriosis (Young Feminists)" by Women's Health Activist " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: From Pain to Wisdom: What I Learned from My Endometriosis (Young Feminists)
- Author : Women's Health Activist
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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I doubled over and groaned as the stabbing sensation worsened in my abdomen. I was in the middle of a math test my sophomore year of high school, but the Pythagorean Theorem was the last thing on my mind. I was imagining punching my doctor in the fade for telling me to simply take more Advil the next time that my cramps began. I was suffering from what I now know to be the early stages of endometriosis. Yet, whenever I went to the school nurse or our family's HMO, my health care providers assumed I just had regular menstrual cramps and should stop whining about it. At the most, I'd be prescribed hormonal birth control, but normally I was told to take over-the-counter pain medicine and continue on my way. This went on for years and, by my sophomore year of college, the excruciating monthly pain was a familiar occurrence for me. **********