I think its really a shame there isn't more awareness about endo, both in the medical community and among women. I also have Celiac disease and in the last year or so awareness about it has really taken off, I wish that the same would happen with endo. Its taken a few years for me to get a diagnosis, and since I had been misinformed about the symptoms of endo (it happens only in older women, the pain is only during your period, etc.) I never thought that it was the source of my pain until I got diagnosed, once I started reading up on it I realized endo fit exactly with every symptom I was having.

What finally led me to the gynecologist was that my pain from sex was getting worse and worse (I'd had the pain off and on all my life but now its constant in all positions). Anyways, I am newly diagnosed, but I've opened up to a few girls about my condition and two of them have actually responded that they avoid sex because its so painful but they figured that was normal. I figure that there must be many girls my age (I'm 20) who feel this way but are too embarrassed to talk about it. If there was more education and awareness about endo the disease wouldn't go untreated for so long and everyone would be much better off! Anyways, sorry for the little rant, I just imagine that there are so many women going through this when they don't need to!