Information booklet for family members of women with endometriosis

THIS PRODUCT IS AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK AND IS ONLY AVAILABLE ENDOSTOP SISTERHOOD FOR OUR MEMBERS!

This information booklet will help you to finally stop sitting tense at family dinners. So you don't end up feeling like an alien to them. So that they can finally treat you with understanding and sensitivity, and stop making your fertility, your diet, your health the focus of everyone's attention.

Macer-free peace of mind, that's what the information booklet gives you.

Just give this booklet to your family member, girlfriend, boyfriend, colleague and no more awkward fidgeting at the coffee shop or Sunday lunch! He or she will read it, understand and learn what it means to live with endometriosis, what it entails, what to look out for and why. She'll also get lots of useful tips and peace of mind knowing there are no unanswered questions.

Remember that the vast majority of them are interested in you out of absolute goodwill, love and concern, they just don't know how to do it. Often they don't even know that it must be painful for you to be asked these questions every week, that you are fed up with the constant explanations, and that it is very unpleasant to have to explain over and over again why you don't eat this or that, why your tummy hurts, why you cancel at the last minute, why you are often tired, why you stay at home two days a month, etc.

This booklet is good for everyone, including you, your family and friends.

It helps to keep the peace in your love relationships and the good mood and calm in your family. Your family members will thank you for thinking about it, and it's good for you that you don't have to explain the same thing to everyone again and again.

Read Viki's story, and if you've been through something similar, this is your chance to put things right with this booklet.

Hi Nóri!

I found out in December that I had endometriosis, I admit I wouldn't have known on my own. A lot of people have asked you about your tummy ache, haven't they? Yes, it hurt... but did anyone tell you that this is not normal? Unfortunately not. I felt something was wrong, but I had never heard of it, not to suspect.

Despite all of this, I feel lucky because I had the surgery in February and if I try hard to go back in my head to when the pain started, maybe 1-2 years ago.

The unsolicited advice and opinions have not escaped me either, I could put them in 2 categories, those who are not very interested and those who are very keen. Among my colleagues there was someone who cried wolf, that we need to have a child right now, because then it will never happen (needless to say, I got a minor shock when I was 25). Not because I don't want to, it's just that until you are on solid ground (e.g. owning your own house etc.) you are not prepared for this and I beg you, it's not a snap! The other extreme is my favourite, when relatives say: oh well cysts come and go I had one too, it doesn't hurt that much.

Of course you try to hand and foot that it's really not about that and it's a whole lot more trouble, and then I finally got tired of making excuses in just 2 months. I realised that I was torturing myself for nothing, on the one hand he wouldn't understand anyway, and on the other hand if I didn't cut it short I would go crazy with the constant explaining. I read it in an earlier endoscopy and I really liked it: it will come when it has to come.My answer to the other opinion is: oh yes, you must have had surgery too (there is so much consternation that somehow the conversation doesn't continue).

Often I don't know what's more difficult about the illness, the illness itself and what goes with it, or letting those around you know what it's all about. I take it as a lesson from life, I gave relatively much to others before the illness, lately I've been working on letting go of the comments by my ear, it's just really not easy. 

Thank you for letting me write this and I wish all my fellow endo lovers perseverance!

So, put your information leaflet in the basket and give it to the people who matter to you!