‘I Wish I Fought for Myself More Instead of Just Letting Doctors Dismiss Me’: A Combined Qualitative Analysis of Four Cohorts of Aotearoa New Zealand Endometriosis Patients

There are key issues in the journeys of endometriosis that occur regardless of ethnicity, gender identity or sexuality. Many of these issues are tied up in societal attitudes that dismiss and downplay menstrual distress. When these attitudes are shared by the medical practitioners caring for endometriosis patients, this has been shown to severely harm patient's journeys to diagnosis, sense of self and capacity to manage the disease.