Happy New Year!!! I hope that everyone has had a pain free new years eve and a pain free new years day! As promised I am kicking the year off with plenty of endo love and positivity. I received a topic from one of my readers and I will start with that. So, here goes... The history of Endo, just so this doesn't sound like a history lesson I'll try to make it fun :). I went searching on the net and here's what I found. According to the Endometriosis foundation of America, endometriosis an ancient disease. Women who displayed symptoms of endo dated back to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939 and even further back) . He was a well known neurologist, psychoanalyst, and psychotherapist, who failed to properly diagnose women. Most of his diagnoses were hysteria. We've all heard of hysteria (aka a woman's disease), physicians diagnosed women with hysteria when there was nothing externally that could show the doctor why a woman would be in agony. Since Endo is an internal disease, it looked like a woman was possessed or crazy. In the article, a physician from the 21st century took a look at Freud's notes and found that the symptoms the women had suggested that women were reacting severely to pain caused by endometriosis. During the middle ages in Europe, women were ostracized, tortured, and hanged for being in pain. Let me explain, in history women were seen as witches or even possessed if they acted uncontrollably in public. Think about being an undiagnosed woman back then with no heating pad, no prescription painkillers, and no sanitary napkins or tampons. Sounds like HELL!!! No wonder why men thought women were crazy. I would be crazy too. Anyways, back to the subject. I found an ancient treatment for endometriosis, it kind of scared me when I read it because it shows how barbaric these means of curing people were. "Uterine suffocation, vaginal prolapse, and other gynecologic conditions were sometimes treated with succussion, the ancient Greek practice in which patients are bound to a ladder, turned upside down, and shaken vigorously, with the idea being that the uterus would be shaken back into its proper position."
I found another article where a Scottish physician in 1774 said "in its worst stages, this disease affects the well-being of the female patient totally and adversely, her whole spirit is broken, and yet she lives in fear of still more symptoms such as further pain, the loss of consciousness and convulsions." Reading this statement made me feel validated because this statement sums the disease up. This is a little bit of history for you guys. I hope that you look this up for yourselves and even find things that I haven't found and please post them under this post I would like to know more about the history of this disease. Also you can e-mail me with any topics that you want me to address. annie.knight18@gmail.com
Can't wait to hear from you.
xxxxxx Yellow Hugs xxxxxxx
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