In Sixteen Years of Endometriosis

Updated 4/2023. Part 1 - It's Not in Your Head. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how the sex and gender bias may negatively affect us —how it may be partially responsible for the long delay in diagnosis for endo patients —how we can face multiple biases depending on the identities we may hold 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode44 🔗Doing Harm...

Updated 2/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how endometriosis is NOT the endometrium —an alternate definition of endo as suggested by researchers —fun new names for endo 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode43 🔗P Vigano, M Candiani, A Monno, E Giacomini, P Vercellini, E Somigliana, Time to redefine endometriosis including its pro-fibrotic...

Updated 4/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about: —chemical and mechanical digestion, fermented foods, and supplements —how intermittent fasting and filtering our water has helped us personally with digestive problems —how Amy improved her digestive and gut health 3 different times: from chronic diarrhea, gastritis, and gut dysbiosis/pathogenic infection 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resourc...

Updated 4/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about: —the gut microbiome —probiotics, prebiotics —stool samples —general tips for having good gut and digestive health 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode41 🔗SIBO 🔗Gut health 🔗The ultimate quick-start guide to the gut microbiome - by Lucy Mailing PhD 🔗Practical Steps for Healing the Gut – with Mi...

Updated 2/2023. There are so many negative ways that endometriosis can affect our life, from living with chronic or acute pain, infertility, or fatigue, to affecting our relationships, to making it difficult to work or study or go after our dreams. But since endo can also cause us to rethink and even rebuild our life, we might find new sources of joy or figure out what really matters to us. Have y...

Updated 1/2024. Amy and Brittany talk about how there are generally 3 accepted forms of endometriosis: —Superficial, Ovarian Endometrioma (OME), and Deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). —how each type can cause pain and symptoms and deserve expert care. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode38 🔗Endometriomas - intro and links on my websi...

Updated 8/2025. Amy and Brittany go into detail on: —the side effects for Orilissa and Lupron and how they may affect our quality of life while taking the medication or after stopping it —the implications of bone mineral density loss, especially for young adults. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode37 🔗Lupron 🔗Orilissa ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀...

Updated 1/2024. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how diet, PFT, excision surgery, more may help diminish or manage digestive problems 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode36 🔗Resources to find a surgeon ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my show? Please rate it or leave a review! Support me by...

Updated 1/2024. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how a high majority of people of endo present with digestive problems —some reasons why we might have digestive problems with endo. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to  www.insixteenyears.com/episode35 🔗Constipation, SIBO & Other GI Issues Can Be A Red Flag For This Condition – This article has an except from the book Beati...

Updated 2/2023. How do we keep going even when everything seems impossible? When life just keeps throwing problem after problem at us, how do we find the strength to go to work, take care of the kids, and to keep doing the things we need to do, when we really just want to curl up under the covers? Amy and Brittany talk about Amy’s health challenge over the past year, the inspiration she found in c...

Updated 2/2023. How many of us feel like we react to difficult situations in ways we don’t want to? They say that the only thing we can truly control in life is the way we face our problems, yet most of us feel like we have no control over our reactions at all! In this episode, Amy and Brittany talk about how to break our subconscious reactions. We give examples on how we can break and replace var...

Episode updated 8/2025. Amy and Brittany talk about how doctors are often misinformed about treatment for endometriosis, including the benefits, risks, and limitations of GnRh drugs. We discuss some ways pharmaceutical companies influence the doctor and/or the patient through marketing tactics, “awareness” campaigns, and more. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.ins...

Updated 2/2023. Do you have beliefs about yourself or your illness that are limiting you in some way? Limiting your growth, your opportunities, or your chances to feel even just a little bit better? Often times our beliefs are subconscious, and we don’t even realize we have them or how they are affecting us. Amy and Brittany talk about how to figure out what our limiting beliefs are, how to change...

Updated 2/2023. Many of us have specific, individualized habits/routines that we follow to help us manage our symptoms or improve our quality of life. These might include eating a certain way, having a specific sleep/wake time, getting enough daily movement, or anything else. Yet how do we actually stick to the habits/routines we want? There is a whole science, and an art, to building habits. Toda...

Updated 1/2023. Do you ever feel like endo is in charge of your life, and not you? How can we take back control over our lives and take back our power from endo? We talk about several ways we can take back our lives - on both a physical and emotional level - from the grips of endo. ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my show? Please rate it or leave...

Updated 2/2023. Do you ever feel like endo has robbed you of your life? It can feel like our lives bounce from one sick moment to another, with no escape from pain and suffering. Learning to be mindful and pay attention to the present moment can help us see that our lives are more than pain and appreciate the beautiful moments when they happen. We talk about the importance of being in the present...

Updated 2/2023. For many people with endo, our period is our most dreaded time of the month. Some of us might even be terrified of getting our period because of the excruciating pain it can bring. We might plan our lives around our period because it completely incapacitates us. In this episode, Amy and Brittany talk about some things we can do to try to make this time of the month slightly less mi...

Updated 2/2023. Going on vacation presents a lot of opportunities for endo to flare: the travel itself, different food than we may normally eat, a bed that’s not your own, stress, being on the go. It’s no surprise that traveling, or even just a holiday or special occasion that we celebrate, can be hard on our body. Amy and Brittany talk about some tips to be successful on our vacations and holiday...

Updated 1/2024. Many of us follow an individualized way of eating to help us manage our symptoms. It’s hard enough to follow our way of eating, but then throw in unwanted, relentless, or obnoxious comments about your food choices from family, friends, or coworkers, and you might be discouraged to continue eating in this way. Amy and Brittany talk about hot to navigate comments people make about yo...

Updated 1/2023. For many of us, stress is one of our biggest triggers for an endometriosis flare. What exactly is stress, and how does it affect our bodies? Today Amy and Brittany talk about ways we can try to manage stress, or better yet, eliminate it altogether when possible from certain parts of our life. ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my sh...

Updated 2/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about all the feelings that have come up for us post excision such as sadness, gratitude, shock, anger, and hope. Amy talks about some of the new health problems she’s battling, and we reflect on what it means to work towards acceptance and peace with our endo and health. ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my s...

Updated 9/2025. Getting into work everyday when you have endo can be a real challenge. Pain flares, brain fog, and other symptoms can make it hard to actually do your work. Amy and Brittany talk all kinds of tips for a successful day at the workplace, from strategies to meet deadlines, schedules, supplies, emergency drivers, clothes, medical accommodations, and more! 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable li...

Updated 2/2023. What kind of questions do you ask yourself about your life with endo? Empowered questions invite you to find answers that help you take back control of your life. Amy and Brittany talk about some of the questions we ask ourselves, and how they’ve led to improvements in our physical and emotional well being. Let’s take back control and power over our lives and over endo! ☀️CONNECT W...

Updated 2/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about how we have the right to set boundaries to protect our physical and mental health! In fact, it’s vital that we do so. But what exactly are boundaries? When and why do we need them? Most importantly, how do we successfully set them?! ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my show? Please rate it or leave a rev...

Episode updated 4/2022. What causes endometriosis? No one knows, but there are various theories. What we do know is that multiple studies have shown that there's many cases of endometriosis where it would be impossible for retrograde menstruation to be the cause, but still ineffective "treatments" for endometriosis are based on this never proven, 100 year old theory, causing ongoing harm to us pat...