No Pain? Know Pain!

I ONCE described that the symptoms of endometriosis are as varying among different women as these women vary from each other.
         It's like a buffet menu but you have no say in what ends up on your plate. For some women, it's more of this and that, less of so-and-so; for others it's an unhealthy portion of Y, and X-amount of some'at else. 
         But here's what around 95 per cent of endo-copers share as communal fare: PAIN.
         Not surprising, that, since there is always pain in battles. And you are battling endo.
         Pain is endo's most wielded weapon; and an endo-sufferer can feel its wounding during her period, during her ovulation, during her day-to-day. You're always on the losing end when you face off with endometriosis agony.

         "Endo is causing me pain," you acknowledge. 
         But there are so many types of pain with endo, though. What is causing which pain?

         This is why I devoted an entire category specifically to pain. The issue is so grand, the layers are multi, there is so much to know: types of pain; times of pain; degrees and causes of; resulting complications; downright dangers to; triggers, treatments and trying to head pain off at the pass.
         All the most lauded generals of bygone wars advocated, "Know your enemy." That's the attitude to take with endometriosis pain, my warrior sistuhs. Get to know your pain intimately ... and I do not mean like you do now.

Pain gaining on you 

Learn the hurt inside out: how it evolves; why it does what it does; the altering feel of one type versus another; the remedies that can deal with each aspect where it is.
         Determine to make endo pain have to work hard to gain any ground in your life.
         Chronic ailments so rock our foundation, we often get lost under their influence and think of them as these great, big, insurmountable wholes.
         Even they are made up of elements. If we commit to aiming our concerted attacks on the manageable components, well, that's what wins us the war.

In beauty may you walk

Photo caption: Is endo pain like an ever present danger that you know little about how to fight? 
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