The guest described hiding her pain so much that it resulted in a constant grimace or 'resting bitch face'. After her hysterectomy, multiple people commented on the visible change in her face, demonstrating how profoundly untreated chronic pain alters physical appearance.
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Chronic low-grade inflammation often presents not as obvious swelling but as subtle, persistent symptoms. Issues like increased fatigue, difficulty concentrating, poor sleep, and skin problems can be driven by an under-the-radar inflammatory state that even doctors may miss.
For individuals whose symptoms have been repeatedly dismissed, a serious diagnosis can feel like a relief. It provides validation that their suffering is real and offers a concrete problem to address, overriding the initial terror of the illness itself.
Patients are frequently told ultrasounds will detect endometriosis, but this is often false. The guest's normal ultrasound was followed by a laparoscopy revealing stage 4 disease, highlighting a critical diagnostic gap that forces patients to pay for definitive procedures.
The guest suggests her condition significantly worsened during the pandemic due to high stress and a potential hormone imbalance (estrogen dominance). She found that an anti-inflammatory diet significantly helped manage the pain, linking lifestyle factors to symptom severity.
Instead of obsessing over "fixing" issues like fatigue or bloating, reframe them as signals from your body. Listening to these cues allows you to understand and address underlying root causes, rather than just masking the symptoms with temporary solutions.
The guest, a senior physiotherapist, faced extreme dismissal from doctors. One questioned her confirmed Stage 4 diagnosis, while another accused her of self-diagnosing due to her profession, refusing a gynecology referral and insisting on more physiotherapy.
Despite a confirmed diagnosis and her expertise as a physiotherapist, the guest was forced to undergo nine months of painful Zolidex injections and unnecessary physiotherapy consultations before she could get the hysterectomy she was fighting for.
The guest, a senior physiotherapist, was repeatedly told her pain was spinal. Her endometriosis was wrapping around her sciatic and femoral nerves, causing symptoms that even orthopedic specialists misidentified, delaying her hysterectomy by two years.
Chronic physical pain can be energetically tied to unresolved self-blame. By looking in a mirror and repeating phrases like "I'm sorry, I forgive you," one can release the emotional block, leading to an immediate and dramatic reduction of physical pain that medicine couldn't touch.
When you suppress an emotion, you physically jam an energetic pattern into your body. Over time, this creates tight, compressed areas—'lock boxes'—that can lead to chronic pain, postural issues, and shallow breathing. This physical blockage also disconnects you from your body, trapping you in your mind.
