Endometriosis symptoms
Some of the symptoms are as follows:
- painful periods
- painful intercourse
- pain with bowel movements or urination
- excessive bleeding
- infertility
In rare cases, sometimes that tissue can make its way outside of the reproductive system to other areas or organs in the body causing pain and scar tissue there.
The other medical term, adenomyosis, “Occurs when the tissue that normally lines the uterus (endometrial tissue) grows into the muscular wall of the uterus. The displaced tissue continues to act normally — thickening, breaking down and bleeding — during each menstrual cycle.
These are a few symptoms of adenomyosis:
- heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding
- severe cramping
- chronic pelvic pain
- painful intercourse
While both conditions are something that a lot of Black women are plagued with, we are only half as likely to be diagnosed as white women and even less compared to Asian women. It’s not news that the pain of Black women is usually ignored and the consequences of medical bias can be severe.
To all my Black women who are told that it is normal to have cramps so terrible you can’t move, or have periods that leave you incapacitated – go get that second opinion, do your research, advocate for yourself and more importantly, take care of you.