Day 5…

Only a brief post today, to give an update on my experience with the endo diet. I had an interesting encounter yesterday with another endometriosis patient who told me, I don’t have to be 100% strict about the endo diet… if I am doing 80%, this is already fantastic and a tremendous change with what…

Day 3 of the endo diet

3 days since my last gluten, lactose, sugar, alcohol, red meat and soja… 3 days since I decided to give the so called endometriosis-diet a try. After 2 surgeries in 12 months, I am open to try about anything to try and stop this crazy thing from growing on my organs. So far so good,…

The endo-diet-diaries

Hi readers! Let me start with the causes which have lead to the topic of today’s post: 10 years of pain, cramps, birth control pills, doctor visits, hospital emergency rooms, false diagnoses, 1 year after my first laparoscopy and a horrible experience with IVF, where hormones made my endo explode, a complication of the surgery…

Tips to prepare and survive your endometriosis surgery: laparoscopy

Day 5 after my second laparoscopy and I finally found some energy to write about it. Since everything is still fresh in my memory, in today’s post, I will give some tips about how to prepare for and how to survive the days/weeks after a laparoscopy. (Here you can find the link to the Story…

Endo strikes back (so soon!)

Hey there readers, here’s a post… from my hospital bed… I just woke up after my second endo surgery (in 12 months). I never thought it would come back so fast, but it did… So here’s the story: I actually fel quite well after my first laparoscopic surgery, except for my S2, S3 nerves being…

Endo vs. Emmanuelle: 1-1

March 2019 – I kept a diary to myself the days after my endometriosis excision surgery and thought I might share this with all of you. (not all at once, otherwise it will be a very long post, but I will publish in 2 different posts) It descibes my feelings and thoughts the day of…

The diagnosis

As written in my previous post, we were in the middle of an IVF cycle when it started. Terrible pain… the more hormones I took (through pills and injections), the more I suffered. In the beginning it was still mild cramps and pain, but the further we went in the process, the worse it became….