BBC Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x8nb
I was recently diagnosed with Endometriosis after a lengthy (almost 20 year) battle with trying to get gynaecologists to take me and my symptoms seriously since starting my periods as a young teen.
I watched Emma’s documentary and just felt …. meh?
It was very sad to see Emma’s and the other women’s experiences of living with this debilitating disease, struggling to conceive, making the awful decision for a total hysterectomy before having children etc.
I’m grateful that there’s lots of awareness around Endo, however I feel nothing seems to be changing.
Myself, and countless other women I’ve spoken to online via various Endo support groups and social media - are constantly being fobbed off. For years and years. We leave medical appointments with consultants in tears, we are offered no support, our symptoms are blamed on our “mental health”. We are constantly gaslit. Medical misogyny at its finest.
On the whole I felt the documentary didn’t add any insight to what’s already out there. Wes Streeting’s few minutes were laughable. There was nothing said about how women are constantly dismissed, told it’s “all in our heads”. There was no explanation as to why the diagnosis time is so long.
I feel like I am rambling now, but AIBU? Did any endo sufferers find the documentary helpful or insightful?