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Take a look around the room
After ten women, or think of ten women you know:
Your mother, your daughter, your sister and your friends.
What if I told you it was almost certain
That at least one of these women suffer from a disease:
Disease, no one knows what caused and what is treated.
It is a disease that takes an average of 10 doctors and 10 years to be diagnosed.
In the United States alone, this disease is a burden on society
An estimated $ 119 billion a year.
Of lost wages, lost productivity and associated medical costs.
It is a disease that affects you directly or indirectly.
So what is this disease? Endometrial endometriosis.
Lining … what? exactly!
The definition of lexicon for migratory uterine lining is when
There are tissues similar to lining the uterus.
Ectopic growth in other parts of the body.
This can cause pain, functional dysfunction, internal bleeding and injury.
The fact of migratory endometriosis is much more than that.
It can be said to be the most common destructive disease on the planet
Which has not been heard by many people,
If you have heard of him, the chances are that you do not really know about him.
Let me tell you a story,
At the growth stage, I was a happy and healthy child
My academic achievement was good, I was athletic,
My father raised me in the first place, and I did not cause him many problems.
Yet almost overnight,
When I was a teenager, everything changed.
Suddenly, at the age of 16 I was blocked by a terrible pain every month,
When I started my period.
Yes, I say a menstrual cycle, no one is panicking now!
This pain, was not similar,
Of pain quality: ‘Take ibuprofen, lie in bed,
You will feel better and ‘
‘Strong pains, stretching on the cold bathroom floor,
And the fluctuation between hot spells and cold sweating of pain qualities. ‘
Of course, I went to the family doctor, who assured me on a successful visit,
This pain is normal and part of being a woman.
It is possible that my ability to tolerate the pain was not high,
Or it is possible that I was just trying to attract attention.
First let me tell you that I was fully aware of the many ways
Which attracts the attention of those who are in it,
The complaint of pain from my female parts was not one of them.
So, what can I do? You managed it as best I could.
I relied entirely on analgesics for a few days each month,
I continued to do so.
I put an intensive schedule for exams and work
When I thought the symptoms could be worse.
Imagine a full course loader or full-time job demands
When you are in some days suffering from severe pain,
And can not stand upright,
Years passed and more symptoms developed which I thought were irrelevant:
Such as nausea, bloating, exhaustion and migraines.
I have seen seventeen internationally renowned doctors and specialists in the best hospitals,
They asked for a steady number of tests, of course:
Magnetic resonance, CT scan, colon and endoscopy,
Name a test, and I probably will.
Everything came naturally.
In fact it was very silly.
It was not that picture
Which we have in our minds about how to visit a doctor can be:
A good doctor who cares about us and we can rely on him / her completely?
While this is probably the case with things like colds,
But evidence suggests that when things are less clear,
Especially when it comes to women’s health,
Will be held faster.
According to a recent study
Published in The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics,
That while men wait an average of 49 minutes in the emergency room
To receive painkillers for internal pain,
Women wait 65 minutes for the same thing.
We are talking about a rate of about 20 minutes average in general.
More often than not,
Women who are sedatives first receive the same symptoms.
This is not new information from a woman suffering from endometriosis;
We have been told time and time again that we overreact in our reactions to the sickness of the disease,
Drug addicts or “hysteria” damned.
Let us talk about this idea for a moment:
“Hysterical Woman”.
Hysteria was the first mental illness associated with women and women only.
In 1900 BC, ancient Egyptians linked hysteria to a “womb”.
Yes, these silly ruts are always hovering, causing problems.
The idea of ”hysterical women” has continued since then,
It is not difficult to see how gender discrimination plays a role in medicine.
From an early age we learned certain social norms:
Be courteous, ask gently, and wait for your turn.
We learned to suppress our anger and apologize for our tears.
Therefore, not difficult to see
How we fail in the face of doctors who sometimes refuse us.
In fact, according to a study at the Yale University School of Public Health,
Sometimes life-saving treatment girls sometimes delay heart attacks
Because they are concerned that they are stigmatized.
I was in the emergency room in a severe fit of pain,
So far, I still temper my words and feelings if it seems exaggerated.
My numerous marches continued through doctors’ clinics
So I was at the New York University Film Institute.
I went to a female doctor near the camp to check.
I entered and what, at this time it became familiar,
I listed my symptoms, and then something amazing happened.
The doctor looked at me and said, “I think you have endometriosis,
We need surgery. “
Thirteen years and clinics of countless doctors and tests are not counted,
And a huge amount of money later,
This is the first time I have heard that word.
It’s shameful, is not it?
There are many reasons why the average delayed diagnosis is ten years.
One reason is that this disease is very individual;
Different women have different symptoms,
While one woman is likely to suffer from painful pain,
There are others suffering from symptoms of the digestive system or urinary system,
Or autoimmune symptoms or perhaps a mixture of all this.
The problem is that many doctors do not know it.
Of course, this is not their whole fault.
Most good doctors and good-intentioned people try to do a good job.
The dilemma is what they studied in the Faculty of Medicine is sadly updated,
They are trained within the medical system
Non-equipped to deal with disease
Very individual and complex and related to many disciplines,
Specializations do not usually relate to each other.
Therefore, she moved like many women
From a doctor’s clinic to a doctor’s clinic and from a specialist to a specialist
None of them put things right.
Therefore, the surgeon performed the surgery,
What should have been one hour surgery in an outpatient clinic
He was transferred to surgery for eight hours and a one-week stay at the hospital.
I suffered from the fourth-degree migratory endometrium.
Infection into my intestine
And melted into the left ovary and uterus.
None of these showed through the rays,
It was also not shown in blood analysis,
So I underwent surgery and recovered again.
Have you recovered? Yeah
Not so fast!
With migratory endometriosis there are two cycles that women should go through.
The first is the very late diagnosis,
The second is finding effective treatment.
As an example, let’s consider migraine endometrial surgery: imagine an iceberg.
Imagine this mountain is a migratory endometrium.
There are only two ways that a doctor can treat them:
He can eradicate it, or so that they can see it.
The vast majority of 52,000 women doctors in the United States
They mop the surface or cry what they can see
This is known as ironing surgery.
Only a very small fraction actually disintegrates the disease,
Which is called “eradication surgery”.
You can see the problem in the first option, right?
If you have just read what you can see,
About 90% of the disease will be left behind.
It is not surprising that recurrent surgery for migratory endometriosis is inevitable.
I have undergone three surgeries myself and may be subject to more in the future.
Many women have gone through worse than seven to ten, it is not uncommon.
It is possible to wonder, “Is not there any kind of medicine for this?
Yes, doctors prescribe a variety of drugs,
From anti – inflammatory and pain – relieving pills to
Hormonal control drugs.
But the problem with all this is first, it is possible to cause
You know a huge array of dreadful side effects,
Second, none of them actually treats the disease.
They only hide the symptoms.
Therefore, we have many questions about the disease and not many answers,
But what do we know?
We know that the endocrine system and the immune system are interrelated.
We know that if your mother or sister suffers from this disease,
You face an increased risk.
We know that environmental toxins can play a role.
We know that 50% of all infertility cases are unknown
Half of hysterectomy is performed in the United States each year
Due to migratory endometrium.
There is an important note here;
Many cases of hysterectomy due to migratory endometrium
Lambr her completely.
Hysterectomy is not a treatment for migraine lining.
Therefore, disease
Affects an estimated one in ten girls and women of childbearing age,
Which is estimated at 176 million people on the planet.
If all the people who suffered from migratory endometriosis formed their own state,
Will be the eighth largest country, larger than Japan, Mexico and even Russia.
So far we have no answers, which raises the question:
Why? Why do not we have answers?
Why do not we have a better treatment with fewer side effects?
Why has not everyone heard about this disease before?
The answer to all these questions lies in an integrated and terrible combination
Lack of awareness, marginalization of unregistered physicians,
The impact of excessive commercial advertising
On our health care system.
A combination of integrated, terrible and even more volatile,
When we talk about something traditionally forbidden in society.
Menstruation and menstrual cramps.
Problems under the waist are the greatest prohibitions on women’s health.
What if I told you that there were 5,000 mild words for the term “thirst”.
5,000 words are all synonymous with one meaning,
So far, we feel more comfortable when we say:
“Flo’s Aunt”, “Damn”, “Shark Week”, “On the Rag” and “Monthly Time”.
I understood the meaning.
The problem with all this is that
If we do not feel comfortable talking about our bodies and our menstrual cycle,
We will not know if something is wrong.
Talk about a problem and what steps to change it.
After all, is not this wrong with society
When we see blue liquid in commercials?
For those who have been asleep in the health field, this is not accurate.
(Laughter)
We all have the responsibility here to be aware of this,
Misinformation and biases.
Women, this belongs to us personally,
Be conscious and break the vicious circle of misleading information,
Which pass inadvertently across generations
By our mothers or grandmothers that “painful menstrual period,”
And “part of being a woman”,
We just know as we need to deal with him as they did.
When it comes to your health you should be your own defender;
You must be proactive and this applies with any disease,
But this applies more with an incredibly misunderstood disease.
If you remember only one thing of this talk, I wish this to be:
If you have a girlfriend or someone you love suffers from these symptoms,
Do not stop looking at them but their sincerity and support,
And help them to find answers,
If you suffer from these symptoms and no one listens to you,
But you know that there are speeches that do not stop paying.
You know your body as being courageous and being resistant and being attentive,
You will be able to find the answers you want.
I have two young daughters, five and nine years old.
They are happy and healthy,
But have an increased risk of developing the disease seven times.
I walk the path of weakness that is likely to be their way in the future.
Yes it is a way that can change for the better for you,
By joining together, standing and speaking openly
About our bodies and our monthly and safe cycles and the symptoms we have.
We can all work for a day
Where are your daughters and daughters
And many others, have a more healthy future.
thank you.
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