She Fought To See Seven Different Doctors Over The Course Of Six Years Before She Was Finally Able To Receive An Endometriosis Diagnosis After Her Pain And Symptoms Were Repeatedly Dismissed
Women who have endometriosis can attest that it is one of the most painful and heartbreaking diseases to deal with.
Can you imagine being a young woman with endometriosis yet going undiagnosed and living in pain for years before finding a doctor who paid proper attention to your condition?
That’s what happened to Sam, a young woman who saw over seven doctors over the course of six years who dismissed her pain and symptoms until she was finally diagnosed with endometriosis.
Sam (@samxendo) is a California-based content creator in her 20s who has been making a lot of videos related to her health journey and educating her viewers on life with endometriosis.
Sam went through an extremely difficult and harrowing few years before finally getting diagnosed and receiving treatment for her stage four endometriosis, mostly due to doctors telling her that her pain and symptoms were ‘in her head’ or a result of anxiety.
“You think you can hurt me?” asks Sam in one of her TikTok videos.
“I fought 7+ doctors for six years for a diagnosis that happens to be one of the top 20 most painful diseases one can have.”
In a series of videos, Sam explained to her viewers the rough road she went down before finally getting diagnosed.
Between the ages of 13 and 20, Sam dealt with horrible and debilitating pain related to her reproductive health.
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“My pain and my symptoms were interfering with my life,” explains Sam.
“Doctors kept dismissing me and telling me that it was all ‘normal’ or it was anxiety or stress. I had multiple scans done, lots of blood work done, and exams, and nothing ever came back. The doctors never mentioned endometriosis or adenomyosis as a possibility at all.”
Then, later in her journey, Sam developed an ovarian cyst. She was told by doctors once again that having an ovarian cyst was “totally normal” and was sent home. A month after her Sam’s cyst was found, it got so big that her doctors believed it was cancer, and she was rushed into surgery.
“The cyst wasn’t cancerous; it was an endometrioma,” explained Sam.
“That’s when I was diagnosed with endo.”
It took a cyst to triple in size within a month and emergency surgery for doctors to finally diagnose Sam with stage 4 endometriosis.
After her first ovarian cyst surgery, Sam visited several specialists and finally found one who was able to operate on her again to confirm her diagnosis, and she was additionally diagnosed with adenomyosis and interstitial cystitis.
Since receiving her diagnosis, Sam has created many TikTok videos about endometriosis and encourages her viewers to not only speak up and seek medical attention for any abnormal symptoms and pain but also demand proper treatment from doctors.
Despite everything she’s been through, Sam pushed through her pain and challenges and graduated from UCLA in 2022 with a B.A. in Psychology and a GPA above 3.5.
You go, Sam!
@samxendo & thats on now learning to cope with ptsd due to medical trauma(: #endometriosis #chronicillness #medicalgaslighting
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