Endometriosis & Unsolicited Advice

Can you relate? "Have you tried xyz therapy?" 😡or "Just get a laparoscopy like I did. It cured me!" 🥴

Receiving unsolicited advice seems to be inevitable when you live with endometriosis or any chronic health condition.

Our Facebook community weighed in on this topic & shared some of the crazy (and not to mention some wildly offensive) advice they have received. Below is a summary and you can also head on over to our FB page to read all of the comments there.

• • "Lose weight & eat right."
  • "Get pregnant!"
  • "It's just a heavy period."
  • "Everyone has pain with their periods, that's why they're called cramps!"
  • "Shouldn't you be used to it by now?"
  • "Suffer."
  • "Get pregnant and breast feed for as long as possible and get pregnant again. That could keep it at bay for a few good years."
  • "All women have cramps."
  • "It's all in your head."
  • "It will get better on its own."
  • "Start having babies." I was 17 & in HS!
  • "I've examined you and your pelvis still rocks so you cant have endometriosis."
  • “Get a hysterectomy and all your pain will go away”.
  • "Go vegan."
  • “Do a smoothie cleanse, it will get rid of the “toxic estrogen” in your body”
  • "Maybe if you took pills for depression, it would just go away."
  • "Drink more water."
  • "You have had surgery why are you not better?"
  • "Have you tried yoga?"

➡️➡️What unsolicited advice have you received? How have you responded? Do you thank them for sharing? Take it as a chance to educate them? Change the subject?

Be sure to share in the comments below. ⬇️⬇️