Amy Schumer Opens Up About Hysterectomy to Treat Endometriosis

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, endometriosis affects around 10 percent of women and girls of reproductive age globally—including —but its most persistent and debilitating symptoms are usually shrugged off as just part of being a woman.

As Schumer says in her episode of Paramount+'s new reality series, this can make living with the chronic illness a “lonely disease.” She tells Dr.

Agus, "You know, for months, I had been complaining of pain…it was just this pain you can't see. And, you know, there is the inclination to always ." This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“You tell someone you get really bad cramps, and they're like, 'Oh, it's being a woman, ' and you're like, 'no, it's irregular,'” she says in the show. “I've been in so much pain, you know, my whole life—not just the week of my period.

It's during ovulation. I would hopefully get a good week a month where I wasn't in pretty significant pain, still trying to achieve, still trying to go through life.