The Doctor Will See You Now

Endometriosis materializes when the endometrium - the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus – sheds but does not exit a woman's body during her period. Instead it grows outside of the uterus spreading to organs and nerves in and around the pelvic region. The resulting pain is so physically and emotionally insufferable that it can mercilessly dominate a woman’s life. The average woman with endometriosis is twenty-seven years old before she is diagnosed. It is one of the top three causes of female infertility. The pain it emits can affect a woman’s career social life relationships sexual activity sleep and diet. It is incurable but highly treatable. Unfortunately though it is rarely treated in a timely manner if at all because of misdiagnoses and/or a lack of education among those in the medical community.<p>This book gives hope to everyone connected to endometriosis. That includes every woman and young girl who has it and the women and men in their lives – the mothers fathers husbands children and friends – who know something is wrong but do not know what it is or what to do about it. This book is written at a level that everyone with ties to this disease can relate to and understand but it is also for doctors with good intentions who lack the knowledge of how to diagnose or treat it.</p> <p><i>The Doctor Will See You Now</i> is for women determined to let the world know their stories so that every woman with this disease – from the thirteen-year-old girl who is being told that her pain is part of becoming a woman to the woman who has been misdiagnosed for decades – knows she is not alone. </p><p>Yes her pain is real.</p><p>No she is not crazy. </p><p>Yes there is hope.</p>