MIAMI.- In an essay for Elle, published Thursday, Lily Reinhart candidly detailed his journey to receiving the diagnosis of endometriosis, revealing that one of her test results instead indicated that she had adenomyosis. Reinhart wrote that when she Googled the word, she was “frozen” by one symptom in particular: infertility.
“I had no plans to get pregnant in the next few years, but I know that sooner or later I want to have children and, suddenly, the wishes I had for my future seemed to be cut short (…) I went home, woke up my boyfriend and cried in his arms. He asked me what had happened, but at that moment I had neither the words nor the energy to explain it to him. He simply hugged me while I cried, venting my pain, my confusion and my frustration,” she explained.
Diagnosis
In December, Reinhart spoke openly about her diagnosis and the journey she had to take to get there.
The actress He posted photos on Instagram from a hospital bed, showing his abdomen after undergoing laparoscopic surgery.
She shared that she had been diagnosed with endometriosis, a condition of the reproductive system in which uterine tissue grows outside the uterus, causing cramps and chronic pain.
“Last year I consulted a urogynecologist and was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis (…) Three visits to the hospital. Multiple urologists and gynecologists. And not a single one of them seriously considered endometriosis as the underlying cause of what I was experiencing,” she explained.
“It wasn’t until I worked with two different pelvic floor therapists that the word ‘endometriosis’ was even mentioned to me as a possible source of my pain,” she said.
She added that she herself insisted on having an MRI, which ultimately led to her being diagnosed with adenomyosis, a type of endometriosis that only occurs in the uterus.
She also shared an image in which she is holding a paper that says: “Believing in women’s pain should not be REVOLUTIONARY.” Additionally, he tagged the Endometriosis Foundation of America.
Likewise, Reinhart posted an Instagram story from the hospital in which she commented on how gratifying it was to feel like her ailments were validated by finally getting answers about her health.
