We live in a WebMD world. It’s cheaper, easier, and more convenient to google our symptoms. Unfortunately, we also live in a world where it’s cheaper, easier, and more convenient for doctors to throw medicine at our symptoms than to actually pinpoint the source of the problem. It is your doctor’s job to diagnose […]

This blog is part of a series – to read the intro, click here!   If you’re anything like me, the first thing you want to know about a disease or illness is, “what are the symptoms?” Like any disease, endometriosis has many different symptoms and everyone’s experience is unique. A particularly tricky part of endo […]

If you spent much time on social media this past March, you may have seen a few black and white photos of women holding up signs reading “1 in 10” – or maybe you haven’t. While endometriosis affects 10% of all women – approximately 176 million women worldwide – very few people are talking about […]

I have been cursed with a family tradition of endometriosis. I guess it all started back with Eve, but the Potts women must have eaten a lot of bad apples along the way. In a nutshell, endometriosis – or as we cool cats call it, “endo”, – is “a disease that occurs when tissue similar […]