Endometriosis, practically incurable, is due to the uncontrolled multiplication of endometrial cells which, instead of remaining in the uterus, migrate to the ovaries, intestines, bladder, rectum, kidneys and diaphragm, triggering intense pain.

One in ten women is affected.

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Unfortunately, it is pathology that most vividly illustrates the ravages of medical misogyny. It always starts with painful menstruation, and it is because these pains are not taken seriously by some gynecologists that results in delays in diagnosis of up to twenty years and wasted lives.

Endometriosis: women's speech too often in doubt

"At 13, I had horribly painful menstruation," says a young woman.

The gynecologist told me, "It's normal, you have to accept the pain for the grace of being a woman."

"I was diagnosed after thirty-two years of suffering. All my life the doctors have reproached me for being too cozy. I was prescribed anti-depressants, without ever seeking the cause of my pain. I was told, "Make a child, it will be okay," says another.

"When a girl complains of painful periods, she is prescribed the pill and we wait for it to pass, but we now know that the pill masks the symptoms, and that they explode as soon as you stop taking hormones. ", says Delphine Ludzay, president of the Endo France association ^(1), which campaigns for the disease to be taken seriously.

Everything starts from this indifference to pain.

The story of Aurélie, 32, concentrates all the failures of the medical profession: "While I was bent in two when I had my period, I was prescribed different types of pills, without seeking to know the cause of my pains. As the pills resulted in acne and a drop in libido, I was prescribed a third generation. Six months later I started having a terrible headache, which did not alarm my doctor. In emergencies, a CT scan detected thrombosis in the brain. The clogged vein burst, I was transported, between life and death, to another hospital. There, the doctors made the connection between the pill and the stroke. A few months later, a competent radiologist detected advanced endometriosis.

Knowing that I did not have a desire for a child, I begged that my uterus and ovaries be removed. I was refused. Disgusted by the official medicine, I do not cure any more than with alternative medicines.

Considerable delays in the management of the disease

If the management of endometriosis is so late in France, it is because a long time gynecology pundits have argued that it was a psychosomatic disease , a hysterical manifestation resulting from trauma sexual or emotional.

The psychoanalyst Jean-Michel Louka, who claims to be devoted to the cause of women, has strongly supported this theory. For years, he offered his free interventions to the gynecology department of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.

And when the disease is finally recognized, its care is far from adapted.

Towards a "chronicization" of endometriosis

Elena Pasca, creator of the blog Pharmacistique ⁽²⁾ , is indignant against the "chronicization" of endometriosis.

"The only way to treat it is complete surgery, removal of the affected tissues, apart from any hormonal treatment. In France, one over-abuses the prescriptions of pills or brutal treatments which cause an artificial menopause . As soon as there are hormones, the lesions diminish, and it becomes impossible to make a complete mapping and eradicate them surgically. Women who suffer from recurrences are forced to spend several times on billiards, increasing the risks. Another consequence: when a woman takes Enantone or Decapeptyl - which causes artificial menopause - there is a sudden increase in estrogen levels at the start of treatment. If she becomes pregnant at this time, there is a high risk of fetal malformations. I think we have not finished hearing about it. "

1. www.endofrance.org.
2. Specialized in the denunciation of conflicts of interest between medicine and pharmaceutical industry, https://pharmacritique.20minutes-blogs.fr.