Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

Every month they get more and more, they progress more as we age.

That's why these patients average age of diagnosis for endometriosis is 32.

And it takes doctors nine to 11 years to diagnose these patients because it can start with, oh, my periods are painful.

Then they get more painful.

Then you start staying home.

Then you have to call your mom to pick you up from school.

Then sex starts hurting.

Then you realize a week before it starts hurting.

Then you realize now a week after the pain is still there.

And eventually it turns into chronic pelvic pain.

But these patients jump from doctor to doctor, doctor to doctor, until A, they have chronic pelvic pain and someone says, wait a minute, you have endometriosis.

Or B, they can't get pregnant and they end up where?

In the fertility clinics.

for something that could have been suppressed years prior to that.

So it depends on the age, on the quality of the eggs.

One thing endometriosis does, so endometriosis is an inflammatory process.

It causes inflammation in the pelvis.

That's why as it progresses, it causes scarring in the pelvis.

It can cause scarring of the tubes.

That inflammation can affect your egg quality, can cause bowel adhesions, bladder adhesions.