Yasmina Kattou with AFP 2:22 p.m., March 06, 2023
Better understanding, better awareness, better treatment of endometriosis: on the occasion of the European Endometriosis Prevention Week, Yasmine Candau, president of the EndoFrance association, deciphers at the microphone of Europe 1 the symptoms that should push women to consult.
One in ten women suffers from endometriosis in France.
However, this disease is still unknown, so much so that it takes at least seven years for those affected to be diagnosed.
On the occasion of European Endometriosis Prevention Week, Yasmine Candau, president of the EndoFrance association, deciphers the symptoms that should push women to consult.
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Different symptoms depending on endometriosis
Endometriosis, on which knowledge remains incomplete, is sometimes asymptomatic but can also manifest itself by heavy periods and violent pain.
"The most obvious symptom is pain. Pain should lead to consulting a doctor from the moment it resists simple basic analgesics. Depending on the location, we will have different signs" , she explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
The symptoms will be different depending on the endometriosis.
“For example, if it is an endometriosis which is positioned on the digestive tract, we will have alternating diarrhoea, constipation. When we have bladder endometriosis which irritates the bladder, we will have pain when urinating, feeling of having a urinary tract infection", she explains.
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"Beside that, chronic fatigue will set in. You have to go and see doctors trained to diagnose endometriosis," she continues.
To find these doctors and be well oriented, Yasmine Candau encourages women to contact the volunteers of the EndoFrance association via its website.