Your Pain Is Real: Why Endometriosis Takes 10 Years to Diagnose

You've been told it's normal. That all women deal with this. That you're being dramatic. And you've spent years — maybe a decade — knowing in your body that something is genuinely wrong while the medical system looked the other way. Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women and carries an average diagnosis delay of 7 to 10 years — not because it's rare, but because women's pain has historically been dismissed as ordinary. Alexis Roderick Joel knows this fight intimately. As Co-Chair of The Joel Foundation and Chair of Advocacy for the Endometriosis Foundation of America, she has taken this cause to the highest levels — and this conversation is for every woman who was ever sent home and told to just manage it. You'll learn: 🔬 Why does endometriosis take so long to diagnose 💊 Symptoms women are told are "normal" — but aren't 🏛️ How Alexis brought the endo funding fight to Capitol Hill 🧬 Why the first dedicated U.S. endo research lab matters 🩺 How to advocate for yourself in a system that isn't listening 💛 What women in their 20s need to know about their hormones now You are not imagining it. This conversation gives you the language, the facts, and the courage to ask better questions and demand real answers. ────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH ALEXIS RODERICK JOEL: 🌐 Endometriosis Foundation of America: https://www.endofound.org ────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices