'Trying to remain a positive person & hide the pain has been a very long road,' Irwin wrote on Instagram.
in 2006 while filming off the Great Barrier Reef, shared the news during Endometriosis Awareness Month. an estimated 10% of women in their reproductive years. Because the disease has diverse symptoms, and since there are no blood or imaging tests for it, women are often shuttled from doctor to doctor before they get the right diagnosis. The condition can be painful and can go undetected for years.
Irwin said doctors found 37 legions, some of which were"deep and difficult to remove," as well as a chocolate cyst, which is a cyst filled with"dark brown endometrial fluid," according to the National Institutes for Health.
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