Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

If sex with deep penetration hurts, that's not normal.

If you're constantly bloated, even during the month when your periods are painful and after your periods you eat and you're constantly bloated, that's not normal.

If when you have a bowel movement, your bowel movement hurts, that's not normal.

If you constantly end up in your GYN or primary care's office complaining of UTI or bladder symptoms,

recurrent bladder symptoms, and you're getting antibiotics three, four, five times, six times, 10 times a year with a negative culture, that's endometriosis until proven otherwise.

So because these patients present differently, majority of these symptoms are chronic pain though.

It's the top cause of chronic pelvic pain in women.

It's the leading cause of infertility, right?

Over 100 years ago, they knew about endometriosis.

100 years later, we're still not diagnosing these patients correctly.

100 years later, these women go through life.

They can't have children.

They have chronic pelvic pain.

They stay home.

They get anxious.

They get depressed.

They get addicted to opioids because when they go to the doctor, they end up in these pain clinics and someone starts prescribing them Norco or Percocet.

I have 25-year-olds who come to my office and they're like, I know Percocet is not going to help me.

I don't want to take this.

But this is what the urgent care gave me.