Crikey! Bindi Irwin's Endometriosis Story: The Painful Truth

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Ever feel “unheard” in your health journey?
Bindi Irwin (television personality and daughter of The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin) recently shared her experience with endometriosis.
Like many of you, she suffered with the condition - and had to advocate for herself to get the right treatment.
In my new video, I’m reacting to this heartfelt, emotional interview, raising awareness, and sharing ways you can also advocate for yourself!
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[@caseymacmacl7463]

I got my first period on my 13th birthday and it was agony. It took 9 years to receive a diagnosis of Endometriosis. During my first pelvic exam with a new Ob/Gyn at 22, the doctor pressed from the inside and outside at the same time and my leg shot out and kicked him on the shoulder, knocking him off his stool. As he picked himself up off the floor he brushed off my (horrified) apologies he asked if I'd ever heard of Endometriosis. I hadn't. He gave me the standard "You should get pregnant. That'll stop the Endo." 22 years old and single and he thought I should have a baby. This was in 1991. I chose to have surgery. On my 23rd birthday I went in to the hospital for abdominal surgery. Not laparoscopic. He sliced my abdomen open. On admission I read every word of the forms they wanted me to sign and I refused to sign them because the doctor had noted that he expected to find critical levels of Endo and would perform a hysterectomy should the damage be 'too severe'. He NEVER mentioned to me that I might leave the hospital, sterile, at 23 years old. The rewrote the forms and I wrote in myself that I gave absolutely no authorization to remove any of my reproductive organs. He found extensive damage and admitted to me later that he would have removed my uterus if I hadn't changed the forms to forbid it. Two years later I met my husband. In 1998 I gave birth to a son a month premature. I'd already had three first trimester miscarriages before my son was born. I suffered 8 more miscarriages in first and early second trimester. At 38 I had a Uterine Ablation surgery and it saved my life. The constant pain I'd suffered from for 25 years was gone! No more hemorrhaging every month. No more yearly laparoscopic surgeries to remove the worst patches of Endo. If I'd been given the option, if anyone had mentioned Uterine Ablation to me before, I would have had it done at 30. Every miscarriage was soul crushing. My son is now an adult and he's the best thing that has ever happened to me.

[@crystalkacmar5071]

I had a full hysterectomy when I was 30 because I had endometriosis and other problems. I feel MUCH better!!

[@tracinicholson2019]

I suffered from 13 to 49. I had a family doctor that would just dismiss my pain by telling me “you’re a girl get used to it”. I only found out when I had a hysterectomy which the doctor couldn’t complete because it is all over my bowels. I’m on medication that has changed my life.

[@qhaireeniqa7936]

I’m scared.. but the pain is so painful..

[@jeanetteraichel8299]

She is lucky she was only in her 20's when she had the surgery. Most women it takes decades to realize it out. Should be if a woman has unimaginable pain at a certain time of the month, then do a exploratory minimal invasive surgery to see if it could be endo. Women should never have to suffer. Endo should always be on a OB/Gyn's mind if they can't pinpoint the problem.

[@HC-qv7ng]

She has the money, fame, family to cope and heal and was able to afford surgery. Regular women aren't so lucky.