Health communication

This essay details the author's personal process of being diagnosed with endometriosis, including her experience of medical gaslighting and societal attitudes toward "period pain." Many people who experience excessive menstrual pain report …

Endometriosis is a chronic and often painful inflammatory disease affecting one in ten biological females. It has been characterized as enigmatic and the average diagnostic delay is nearly seven years, time which patients experience as tumu…

Endometriosis is a stigmatized health disorder that impacts approximately 10% of the female population around the world and is characterized by severe physical and psychological symptoms. Through the interpretive perspective, this study inv…

Despite advances in biomedical technology, endometriosis remains a disease that is inefficiently diagnosed and treated. American women often suffer from debilitating symptoms for a decade before being diagnosed. Addressing this deficiency i…

In this essay, the author reflects on how biomedical and gendered perceptions of reproductive health can impact an illness experience. Using a narrative lens, she relays the frustration of attempting to have her excessive menstrual pain leg…