Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

You can self-diagnose yourself at home.

How do you diagnose?

The first thing I want to teach your listeners is painful periods are not normal.

You know, one time for my 50th birthday, I wanted to get, what do you call it on the freeways?

Billboards.

I wanted to get like 10 billboards for my birthday.

and just put painful periods are not normal, hashtag endometriosis.

That was my birthday gift for myself.

I wanted to do that.

But then my daughter, my second daughter came up to me.

She's like, mom, okay, so you tell them painful periods is not normal.

They go to their doctor and the doctor says, yes, it's normal.

Don't worry about it.

Then what?

So maybe going down the freeway, the next one will say,

If you have endometriosis, check your egg.

And if you have endometriosis on the third, and I was going to just treat them as they drive down the freeway, that's how bad it is.

So painful periods are not normal.

So what do I mean by painful period?

If the pain disrupts your life, if you're skipping school, if you're calling in sick and you can't go to work, if you're staying in bed, if you change your social plans around your periods, if you're ending up in the emergency room or in urgent care because your periods are painful, that's not normal.