I'm Gay, I Know It for Plays

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In high school, there were days where i woud just have to sive days because i just couldn't go to school. It did take a while for me to accept that this is going to be with me for the rest of my life. A lot of patients cycle through a lot of therapies that don't get better. And this is very frustrating. The doctor said that they'll have to assess the risks of conceiving a baby and like, we won't know it until we trys really hard.

This common chronic condition — where tissue similar to what grows inside the uterus grows elsewhere in the body — is barely understood. So why is a condition so prevalent and painful still so unknown? It has a lot to do with who gets to ask research questions.

Correction, August 18: An earlier version of this episode implied that the tissue involved in endometriosis is the same as the endometrium, which lines the uterus. It is similar tissue, but not identical.

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