Melissa, Author at Endo Empowered

Dealing with Adenomyosis without a Hysterectomy? Is it even possible?

Many women with Endometriosis also experience Adenomyosis alongside having Endometriosis. It is like a double whammy of symptoms and pain! Though many doctors and practitioners often recommend a hysterectomy as the only solution at resolving Adenomyosis, I managed to...

May 23, 2019 | 0 comments

Healing, Symptoms with Endometriosis

Why do I still have pain after surgery?

Surgery is meant to make us feel better… isn’t it? Isn’t it meant to take it all away and we have a “clean slate” to work forward from? What if after all that you have been through, you still experience pain? What is going on? Let us...

Apr 18, 2019 | 0 comments

2.Exercise

What does the Psoas Muscle have to do with Endo Pain?

I do a wonderful stretch every morning where I lie on a big round ball and stretch out my muscles in my abdomen. It is the best feeling in the world to me! It got me thinking about why this stretch would feel so good and what tightness might be going on in there....

Apr 4, 2019 | 2 comments

Understanding Adhesions

Repeat Surgery Prevention…

As many of you know I am not a fan of surgery as a treatment option for endometriosis – or at least not repeated surgery or what I call the “surgery-merry-go-around”! I had 7 surgeries and a big part of the reason for so many was the constant need to...

Mar 28, 2019 | 1 comment

Mel's Personal Sharing

Our Little Secret, held deep inside…

Endometriosis is a little secret that we hold close inside. We hold it there because few people would truly understand what it feels like. We try to explain it to them but it is not like something anyone has ever experienced and it is difficult to share exactly what...

Mar 21, 2019 | 2 comments