Endometriosis is the second most common gynecological disease in Germany. She is not only incurable, but also for Affected extremely painful. An Englishwoman shows with the help of Make-Up, how women are really suffering including.
Andrea Baines lived for years with endometriosis. The artist from Liverpool (UK) has made it now to the task of making more on the disease. Although endometriosis affects many women and for people Affected by anything other than invisible, it is perceived in the society hardly any.
Endometriosis affects many women, but often goes undetected. Not least because only a surgical procedure can confirm the suspicion of the disease. Also Affected endometriosis be confused initially with a very strong and a particularly painful period.
Endometriosis: Painful and invisible
When cells of the uterine mucosa, the endometrium, in areas outside the uterine cavity and in the organs and tissue ingrowth, it is called endometriosis. This endometrium-like, so-called foci of endometriosis are subject to, just like the mucous membrane inside the uterus, the female cycle. That is, they grow under the influence of Estrogen initially, and then during the menstrual abzubluten. About NetMoms informed here.
So strong pain in the lower abdomen typical symptoms of endometriosis include bleeding, as well as strong and irregular month. But that does not mean that endometriosis occurs only in connection with the period – the symptoms can also show up, irrespective of the female cycle. Additional symptoms of endometriosis are the following, according to the endometriosis Association:
- Abdominal and back pain, which may radiate into the legs (both before and during Menstruation)
- Pain during and after intercourse
- Pain during gynecological examinations
- Pain during a bowel movement or Urinate
- Cyclic bleeding from bladder or bowel
- Infertility
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Many Doctors did not believe Baines
Andrea Baines is aware of these symptoms as well as psychological consequences of the disease itself too well. Compared with Kidspot tells you: "It is so important that such invisible diseases to be recognised. It is for the Affected traumatic enough to live with the pain, to have to constantly feel the need to about your condition lies. It can be very isolating to live with a disease that no one can see."
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You it took years until she finally got the diagnosis. Until then, the British artist had held that it was normal to lose during the period, so much blood that you passed out of it. Only in her twenties, Doctors began to see more. However, even different operations, which should lead to the exact diagnosis, have been performed by Doctors, according to Baines incorrect.
At this point, you have not realized that even professionals from endometriosis had a sufficient idea. "I don’t think some Doctors believe in the extent of this disease." For you, it was a game of luck, whether doctors gave their stories of Faith or not. "There was even a woman doctor who called me a liar and said the pain was only in my head."
Therefore, it is important for women that their pain is taken seriously. "It is not normal to live with chronic pain. It is not just a part of the 'Woman-Seins'."
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Bloody, open wounds on the Inside
Together with Rachel Berwick, also Affected, has Andrea Baines worked now on a Awareness project. On the abdomen of her 28-year-old Models illustrated Baines, the pain – the result of chasing viewers a shiver down the spine.
Bloody, almost black, deep open wounds adorn sticks to the belly at the level of the eggs and along the belly button. The wounds from the Makeup show not only where the pain is particularly strong, but also where it has its origins and what damage he causes. Because the body, which contributes to create life, in truth, for destruction.
The Model is Rachel Berwick, said about the cooperation with Baines: "It is one of the important was most rewarding photo shoots I have ever had the pleasure to be a part of the most and most personal." What makes the project so special was the fact that the pain that embodies Berwick, are a real pain.
The photos that resulted from this collaboration, spread the two women with the following message in the social media: "Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean that it exists. #endometriose".
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"So I feel with Endometriose"
On Instagram, Andrea writes Baines to the photo: "I know the picture is an unpleasant sight, but believe me, it is much more unpleasant to have to live with it. I wanted something Powerful to create […]. It Make may be Up, but that’s how I feel with endometriosis. The stabbing pain, the Twisting, burning pain. There’s a war in my heart prevails every day and it exhausted me."
The response to the project of the British shows that many more women feel this way as Baines. While some expressions, just your consent, share your own tales with the artist. As a woman: " writes;I know exactly how you feel. Last year I had a hysterectomy after I have suffered for ten years under unimaginable pain, I said, enough is enough!"
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