Emma Maxwell

Portland, OR

hi my names emma! i'm 24 years old with a passion for advocating and sharing my experiences as someone living with endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, chronic pain, and more. It took 7 years of feeling like I was crazy & doctors telling me I was being overdramatic about my pain, to finally get an official endo diagnosis. I hope that by sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly, we can start much-needed conversations, spread awareness, change the narrative, & make care more accessible to all!

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Articles

Bindi Irwin recently shared new details about her road to being diagnosed with endometriosis — and her story will likely resonate hard with...

October 3, 2023

One of the big things that can make failed implantation even harder to process is not knowing why it failed.  Dr. Bruce Lessey,...

September 22, 2023

When I was fifteen, I began having stabbing pains in my lower abdomen — sometimes on my right side, sometimes on my left,...

July 27, 2023

As if our bodies couldn't get any more confusing and stress-inducing, sometimes, seemingly out of nowhere, we're thrown a curve ball in the...

June 19, 2023

According to Fertility and Sterility, endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women. In addition, 25% to 50% of women who deal specifically with an...

April 19, 2023

  26% of the global population menstruates; and yet, women's period symptoms are often played down, ignored, or dismissed as 'normal.' You know...

March 22, 2023

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