2023-12-02 09:00:00
Lou-Anne, a thirty-year-old from Normandy, suffers from endometriosis. – Credit:informatics373
“I felt like I was the problem, that it was in my head. » Lou-Anne, a thirty-year-old from Normandy, suffers fromendometriosis. A sickness little known of the general public although it affects one in ten women in France. It will be the subject of a round table at Futurapolis Planetthis Saturday.
Diagnosed at “25 or 26 years old”, Lou-Anne spent more than ten years “in the fog”. “My first stomach aches appeared in middle school. Even before my first period,” she recalls. Pain so powerful that she was “regularly absent.” People thought that I was an unserious, unreliable student.”
“The doctors didn’t know what I had”
Despite a battery of examinations, no diagnosis was made. “I was often told: “It must be in your head or it must be exam stress.” » However, the older Lou-Anne gets, the more the pain intensifies. “When they were really intense, I felt like knives were being stuck in my stomach. »
As a young adult, she noticed a difference between herself and her friends: “I had the impression of being someone weak. I didn’t understand why, compared to my friends who always seemed to be fine, I had the impression of always having a problem. »
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