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Endometriosis: the testimony of Lorie Pester, who “comes back to life” since her hysterectomy
Endometriosis, which affects one in ten women, sometimes causes unbearable pain and can make pregnancy difficult. Singer and actress Lorie Pester suffers from it and recounts in a book her journey of the cross to become pregnant, and her decision to have her uterus removed.
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Endometriosis, which affects one in ten women, sometimes causes unbearable pain and can make pregnancy difficult. Singer and actress Lorie Pester suffers from it and recounts in a book her journey of the cross to become pregnant, and her decision to have her uterus removed.
Lorie, for more than 10 years, has suffered from endometriosis. The pain she endured was so intense that she chose to have her uterus removed. “The pain came little by little. Every month, I had more and more pain. (…) Until the day I could no longer get out of bed or move”she says, describing the sensation of “pétanque ball in the stomach” and a pain that “radiate” throughout the body.
A book to tell your story
She also encountered great difficulties in having her daughter. “When we have endometriosis, we are given a pill continuously, because the pain comes during periods. We have to stop this treatment, and you have a few months to try it naturally,” says her. Obviously, it didn’t work. Then, we resorted to PMA.”
Lorie Pester confides that she “relives” since her hysterectomy. “Before I survived, I was in so much pain that I was there, but I wasn’t there. I live again 1,000%. I’m making up for lost time”, she says. Lorie now recounts her experience in a book, which looks back on her journey. She hopes it would help women with endometriosis better understand the disease.
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One in 10 women with endometriosis: source INSERM, STUDY PUBLISHED July 5, 2017
IRDES Aatlas 2023: 55,496 hospital stays for hysterectomy in 2019.
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