This week is National Endometriosis Awareness Week!
It starts today, Monday 5th March until Sunday 11th March 2012. We really need to raise awareness of this debilitating condition. This year Endometriosis UK are focussing on teenagers, this is due to the sheer volumes of us that started experiencing symptoms in our teens and were left undiagnosed and so untreated until much later in life.
Endometriosis Uk are using this week to launch their 'Is this Normal? campaign aimed at teenagers and young women, often left feeling alone, isolated and in extreme pain. They have a new blog which talks about periods. Please pass this onto anybody you feel this might help. http://aboutmyperiods.wordpress.com/
One of the easiest ways to for us as women to raise awareness is to talk to those around you. Does everybody in your group of family and friends know what Endometriosis is? Would you feel happy asking them. I really want the next generation not to go through what I have gone through so we need to try and educate them to what is normal and what is not.
The Endometriosis UK website http://www.endometriosis-uk.org/
As always I'd love to hear from you
Take Care and lets spread the word
Lily lou x
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