How does endometriosis begin in one’s body?
I have had painless periods throughout teenage and early adulthood but just as I turned 26, i suddenly experienced excruciating pain in lower abdomen during menses, pain occurring once every 3-4 months, the gap began to shorten as i grew older until it became every month.
My periods cycle was always right on time , 5 days bleeding, every month. No one else in my family suffers from this, i wasn’t on any other medication before this began. So this has left me wondering how did it happen to me, was it some external trigger or is it some gene that we are born with which causes this ? My mom says that it is because of “packet food” and chemicals in our food. I wonder if her hypothesis holds any truth and is there any scientific study that has linked endometriosis with exposure to chemicals/ external influences?