Our Mission
At Endo Buddies, our mission is to provide comprehensive support to people with Endometriosis; fostering hope, resilience, and connection.
We want to empower individuals with Endometriosis to lead lives of vitality, resilience, and community.
Our Mission
At Endo Buddies, our mission is to provide comprehensive support to people with Endometriosis; fostering hope, resilience, and connection.
We want to empower individuals with Endometriosis to lead lives of vitality, resilience, and community.
Surgery Care Package Project
We create care packages for people undergoing surgery for endometriosis. These little packs of love are full of things necessary for surgery and stays in hospital.
Wellbeing Support
We’ve put together a Self Care Workbook with tips for managing your journey with Endometriosis.
You can download it via the button below
What is Endometriosis?
Endometriosis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory condition where tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows elsewhere around the body, causing debilitating symptoms including severe pain and can even lead to organ loss.
It takes on average 8 years to get a diganosis of Endometriosis and there is no cure.
What are the symptoms?
- Bad period pains
- Heavy Periods
- Irregular Periods
- Non cyclical pelvic pain
- Bowel & bladder issues
- Infertility
- Depression/Anxiety
- lower Back Pain
- Sciatica
- Ovulation Pain
- Abdominal Bloating (Endo Belly)
- Pain during or after intercourse
- Leg Pain
- Nausea/vomiting
- Chronic Fatigue
- Plus many many more…
How common is Endometriosis?
Endometriosis affects approximately 1.5 million women, and people assigned female at birth, in the UK. That’s 1 in 10 people, however recent research by Dr Barbara Guinn at Hull University has shown that it could actually be more like 1 in 9. It’s as common as Asthma and Diabetes.
The Endo Buddies Blog
Endometriosis Awareness Month
Hello lovely people. I'm a little late in posting this...had abit of a rough week but more on that later. Anyways, how are you today? How are you feeling? As most of you will know it's Endometriosis Awareness Month. It's our time to shout from the roof tops about Endo...
What is Endometriosis?
Welcome to my first blog post! I've been wanting to do this for years now but I didn't have the confidence to get started and well, to be honest, I've been feeling pretty rubbish for the past few years (more on that another time!) so I guess I put everything on hold....