McKenna Oxenden is her own best advocate. She learned this after years of excruciating pain, popping ibuprofen like candy, and doctors dismissing her pain as normal, nothing to worry about. Finally after three years, she got a diagnosis — endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that impacts 6.5 million women in the United States alone. Oxenden writes about her experience for Houston Landing, shedding light on why a diagnosis can take so long:
https://flip.it/__CWBb
#Science #Health #Disease #Endometreosis
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