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"Get better soon"

March sees the return of Endometriosis Awareness month and instead of sorting my financial records as the end of the tax year is dangerously close, I thought it'd be a good opportunity to share my story. "Get better soon" - it's a sentiment with which we're all far too familiar. I won't. Seriously. Endo has no cure; it is a chronic disease that usually resolves by the time menopause rolls around, by which point the average endo sufferer has dealt with around 30 years of debilitating symptoms. I was diagnosed at age 24, after struggling with painful periods since the age of 13. It took over a decade to finally have a name for something that had ruled my life since the beginning of my teenage years. For most of this time, I was able to plan around my period, which is when my symptoms were limited to, although looking back I also experienced something akin to morning sickness, with nausea every morning. Once a month for a few days, I would be out of action for an...