Ouch. That's one of the most painful and hard to diagnose disorders, I remember watching an educational video on it.

Indeed it is. Almost 50% of the women have it, but most of them don't even know it. It varies from painless to enormous pain.

My wife described the recurring pain as stomach full of slow moving very sharp knives.

My daughter has this. And PCOS. It also took years for it to be diagnosed correctly. She even had doctors tell her to get psychotherapy because it was "all in your head"!

We had similar experiences with some doctors.

We've had specialists telling us they flatly did not believe in Endometriosis. Fun times.