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RE: Endometriosis Awareness: Painful Periods Are Abnormal
At this point the pain levels have ratcheted way down from where they were and it's tolerable now. It timed with me starting to eat my allergy diet (I have a ton of allergies that I didn't know about for most of my life, and when I finally got diagnosed I stopped eating those foods and a lot of health problems that I would have never thought were allergies went away), so my guess is that it was the soy in my diet. I was a vegan or a lacto-ovo vegetarian for over a decade before I switched to the allergy diet, so I ate a fair amount of soy, not because I ate tons of fake meat really but because it was my milk substitute and egg substitute and things like that. Soy has phytoestrogens, so my guess is that it was messing with my hormones. My thyroid levels became normal too when they were always right on the border of hypothyroidism before.
I'm also hopeful that since I'm in my 40s now, menstruation time will end soon. :)
This is encouraging, to be able to figure out your diet and lessen symptoms. I'm dealing with pcos and I find it really hard to just live most days. I wish like you, I can get my diet to a point where I know what's bad or not. It feels like I'm doing it all wrong most of the time.
There's not a lot of info to work with so I have to do trial and error. All I get most times is conflicting info on the internet about a pcos diet. Like soy for example, I have read it's bad for me, somewhere else I read it's good. My doctor doesn't give me valuable info either and I feel like I'm on my own. Sigh.
Well, I hope so :) I was telling my mum recently that I suspect she had endometriosis all through her menstrual years. Menopause came late for her 🤭
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