Endometriosis, an Underdiagnosed Disease: "You Still Don't Understand Why You Have to Stay Home because You Have a Strong rule."

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According to the World Health Organization, 10% of women of reproductive age suffer from endometriosis, which makes a total of 190 million people around the world. Despite this, it is an infradiagnosed pathology that can take between 7 and 10 years to identify due to the 'common' of their symptomatology, which is largely in conjunction with severe pains when menstruating. "Endometriosis is a disease difficult to diagnose, although there are some…

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Every month, Alejandra faces intense punctures in the pelvis, nausea and pressure in the abdomen that make her daily life difficult. For years, doctors told her: “They are normal colics.” It wasn’t until she passed through several specialists who received a diagnosis: endometriosis, a chronic gynecological disease in which tissue similar to the endometrium grows outside the uterus, causing inflammation, persistent pain and, in some cases, infert…