April 22, 2016

3 uni assignments on Endometriosis in 4 days

sylvia Uncategorized activism, advocacy, awareness, endo, endoactive, endoactiveawareness, endometriosis, health communication, masters, motivation, sydney uni, uni 0 Comments

In 2014 I was incredibly sick with Endo and had been for years. At that time I
✖️Couldn’t work due to pain
✖️Barely made it to uni
✖️2nd laparoscopy with shocking recovery
✖️Awful pain and fatigue all the time
✖️Miserable. Flat. Didn’t see a future.
✖️constantly medicated
✖️Cried A LOT

If you told me then that in 18 months
✅I’d be pain free, learned how to self-manage my Endo, healthy, full of energy
✅Legalised a drug in Australia to treat Endo (Visanne)
✅Started a change.org petition with 75,000 signatures
✅Built an online community of nearly 8000 incredible people raising awareness of Endo together
✅Froze my eggs
✅Held a conference on Endometriosis at University of Sydney
✅Started my Masters in Health Communication at Sydney University

I would never ever ever ever have believed you in a million years. Ever.

For those of you who are struggling to cope, living in pain, can’t see a way out – I have been there!!

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Lack of awareness and information on Endometriosis #endoactiveawareness

Hey EndoActivists, here’s me talking a bit more about the lack of awareness and information on Endometriosis as part of our ‪#‎endoactiveawareness‬ campaign.

Over the last 3 weeks I’ve been making videos for a social media campaign which is part of my Masters in Health Communication degree at University of Sydney. I’m loving this degree so much! I never would have chosen it if it weren’t for my struggle with Endometriosis and starting EndoActive but our EndoActive community has taken me on a path into women’s health and has ignited a real passion I didn’t have before connecting with all of you!