The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If you constantly end up in your gyn or primary care's office complaining of UTI or bladder symptoms, recurrent bladder symptoms, and you're getting antibiotics three, four, five times, six times, 10 times a year with a negative culture, that's endometriosis until proven otherwise.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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If sex with deep penetration hurts, that's not normal. If you're constantly bloated, even during the month when your periods are painful and after your periods you eat and you're constantly bloated, that's not normal. If when you have a bowel movement, your bowel movement hurts, that's not normal. If you constantly end up in your gyn or primary care's office complaining of UTI or bladder symptoms, recurrent bladder symptoms, and you're getting antibiotics three, four, five times, six times, 10 times a year with a negative culture, that's endometriosis until proven otherwise.