March Is Endometriosis Awareness Month 💛 🐝

March Is Endometriosis Awareness Month 💛 🐝

💛 Endometriosis awareness month 💛

The yellow based illustration features a pink hot waterbottle with a small red heart, a red cape and a yellow banner across reading 'endo badass'. Hand drawn design is raising awareness for Endometriosis and pelvic pain.

March has come round again, and so has Endometriosis Awareness Month. I will always post about endometriosis awareness month due to my own struggle with the disease BUT most of you know that I no longer talk about it regularly either.

Endobeetriosis Bee - Endometriosis on a red background. The illustration is of a bumble bee with a smiley face and holding a pink hot waterbottle in its hands, across its middle is white text that reads endobeetriosis. Designed to raise awareness for endometriosis.

After waiting 14 years for a private diagnosis and narrowly avoiding a stoma bag, this month is close to my heart.

My endometriosis journey began at 18, with excruciating bladder and bowel pain, fainting, food sensitivities, painful intercourse just to name a few of the symptoms. 

An illustration of uterus and ovaries with a sad expression, gaming hearts down to the last one and a console controller attached to the back. Underneath reads 'game ova' - a pun on having sad ovaries and reaching game over on gaming consoles. Representative and raising awareness for endometriosis.

I pulled away from being defined by it during my healing journey. After my surgery I focused on doing everything I could to get to a better place and I've successfully succeeded.

That's not to diminish anyone else's pain, TRUST ME I know exactly how hard it is and I'd wish it on no-one!

Comic strip style illustration of four frames. First frame is a sad looking uterus and ovaries with red tissue growing in the wrong places with a speech bubble reading 'this is cosy AF!'. Second frame is a shocked looking digestive tract with red tissue growing all over in the wrong places with a speech bubble reading 'wait! you've gotta try this!'. Third frame is of a sad closed eyes bladder with red tissue growing in the wrong places and a speech bubble reading 'but it's so snug here!'. The last fourth frame is of all illustrated body parts with red tissue growing in the wrong places all with a speech bubble reading 'Hang on! Why don't we all just stick together'.

 

My top 5 tips for dealing with endo are:

MINDSET 

Stop talking about it regularly. It keeps you stuck in the loop. Raise awareness if you want to but don't keep telling your story over and over. I know that's not easy but the less you think about the pain the better.

 

DIET

Anti inflammatory will change your life if you stick to it long term. @sophie.richards has the best advice.

 

CASTOR OIL

Organic castor oil in a glass bottle and a castor oil wrap around your mid section multiple times a week with a heat pad on top will help shrink those fibroids and cysts! It really works!

 

ADDRESS TRAUMA

This one is a big one. Trauma has a massive link to endometriosis but it's not part of everyone's experience. Reducing stress and cutting out toxic people is advised!

 

SELF CARE 

Put yourself first. I bet this is something you are NOT used to doing at all. I have had to learn the hard way!!

 

Endometriosis awareness gifting graphic created by Innabox. A red base graphic with yellow ribbons for endometriosis, shown is the comic strip postcard, endobeetriosis pin and a glittery holographic endo badass sticker.

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