Episodes

Updated 2/2023. Amy and Brittany discuss one of Amy's worst flares in public. We talk about: —how Amy was mortified by what had happened —how her lack of self-compassion worsened an already traumatic and unbearable situation —why self-compassion is important and how to practice it ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my show? Please rate it or leave a review! Support me by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/insixteenyears ⚠️DISCLAIMER⚠️ The info...

Updated 4/2023. Part 3 - Why Is Pain Dismissed in Women and People Assigned Female at Birth? Amy and Brittany talk about: —assumptions and stereotypes specifically related to women, people AFAB, and illness —a brief overview of the history of hysteria and some ways illness in which women were viewed culturally in the past 150 years —a 2018 theory-guided literature review which looked into how gender bias and gender norms have affected medical treatment 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the reso...

Updated 2/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about the rASRM staging system, which classifies endometriosis into stage 1-4. We discuss: —how this staging system has many limitations —two other classification systems: the EFI and the Enzian system 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode47 🔗The Stages of Endometriosis explained by Dr. Cook – Video 🔗Extrapelvic Not Rare – by Wendy Bingham 🔗Stages of Endometriosis – Article on endometriosis.net. 🔗The rAS...

Updated 4/2023. Part 2 - Why Science Knows Less About the Bodies of Women and People Assigned Female at Birth. Amy and Brittany talk about: —why less is known about disease presentations and side effects for medications for women and people AFAB —some of the federal regulations in the US that led to this —some ridiculous examples of studies that failed to include people AFAB in their research 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode46 🔗Doing Ha...

Today, Amy speaks with Teniola Ongunro about racial bias: —how it can be one of the most detrimental and undercutting barriers for BIPOC in getting proper diagnosis and treatment —how doctors may have implicit and explicit biases —some ways it can affect healthcare and what we can do about it 🎤WHO IS TENIOLA ONGUNRO?🎤 Teniola Ongunro is an endo warrior born in Nigeria who hosts the podcast ‘Not Defined By Endo’ 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/...

Updated 4/2023. Part 1 - It's Not in Your Head. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how the sex and gender bias may negatively affect us —how it may be partially responsible for the long delay in diagnosis for endo patients —how we can face multiple biases depending on the identities we may hold 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode44 🔗Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Ma...

Updated 2/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how endometriosis is NOT the endometrium —an alternate definition of endo as suggested by researchers —fun new names for endo 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode43 🔗P Vigano, M Candiani, A Monno, E Giacomini, P Vercellini, E Somigliana, Time to redefine endometriosis including its pro-fibrotic nature, Human Reproduction, Volume 33, Issue 3, March 2018, Pages 347–352, https://doi.org/10.1093/hum...

Updated 4/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about: —chemical and mechanical digestion, fermented foods, and supplements —how intermittent fasting and filtering our water has helped us personally with digestive problems —how Amy improved her digestive and gut health 3 different times: from chronic diarrhea, gastritis, and gut dysbiosis/pathogenic infection 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode42 🔗SIBO 🔗Gut health 🔗Intermittent Fasting for Women: Wh...

Updated 4/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about: —the gut microbiome —probiotics, prebiotics —stool samples —general tips for having good gut and digestive health 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode41 🔗SIBO 🔗Gut health 🔗The ultimate quick-start guide to the gut microbiome - by Lucy Mailing PhD 🔗Practical Steps for Healing the Gut – with Michael Ruscio 🔗A comprehensive guide to stool and microbiome testing - by Lucy Mailing PhD 🔗Probiotics - by...

Updated 2/2023. There are so many negative ways that endometriosis can affect our life, from living with chronic or acute pain, infertility, or fatigue, to affecting our relationships, to making it difficult to work or study or go after our dreams. But since endo can also cause us to rethink and even rebuild our life, we might find new sources of joy or figure out what really matters to us. Have you found any “silver linings” because of endo? Amy and Brittany talk about some of the good that it’...

Updated 1/2024. Amy and Brittany talk about how there are generally 3 accepted forms of endometriosis: —Superficial, Ovarian Endometrioma (OME), and Deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). —how each type can cause pain and symptoms and deserve expert care. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode38 🔗Endometriomas - intro and links on my website. 🔗Endopaedia.info – Cystic Ovarian Endometrioma – Links to two articles on the topic. 🔗Isolated Ovar...

Updated 8/2025. Amy and Brittany go into detail on: —the side effects for Orilissa and Lupron and how they may affect our quality of life while taking the medication or after stopping it —the implications of bone mineral density loss, especially for young adults. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode37 🔗Lupron 🔗Orilissa ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my show? Please rate it or leave a rev...

Updated 1/2024. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how diet, PFT, excision surgery, more may help diminish or manage digestive problems 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode36 🔗Resources to find a surgeon ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my show? Please rate it or leave a review! Support me by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/insixteenyears ⚠️DISCLAIMER⚠️ The information on my platforms is ...

Updated 1/2024. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how a high majority of people of endo present with digestive problems —some reasons why we might have digestive problems with endo. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode35 🔗Constipation, SIBO & Other GI Issues Can Be A Red Flag For This Condition – This article has an except from the book Beating Endo, by Drs Iris Orbuch and Amy Stein. However, prior to the excerpt, the definition of endo is wron...

Updated 2/2023. How do we keep going even when everything seems impossible? When life just keeps throwing problem after problem at us, how do we find the strength to go to work, take care of the kids, and to keep doing the things we need to do, when we really just want to curl up under the covers? Amy and Brittany talk about Amy’s health challenge over the past year, the inspiration she found in certain books, and how learning to be with our feelings can help us work through them and come out th...

Updated 2/2023. How many of us feel like we react to difficult situations in ways we don’t want to? They say that the only thing we can truly control in life is the way we face our problems, yet most of us feel like we have no control over our reactions at all! In this episode, Amy and Brittany talk about how to break our subconscious reactions. We give examples on how we can break and replace various types of unwanted negative thought patterns with new, wanted ways of thinking. We tell a few st...

Episode updated 8/2025. Amy and Brittany talk about how doctors are often misinformed about treatment for endometriosis, including the benefits, risks, and limitations of GnRh drugs. We discuss some ways pharmaceutical companies influence the doctor and/or the patient through marketing tactics, “awareness” campaigns, and more. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode30 🔗Lupron 🔗Orilissa ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: w...

Updated 2/2023. Do you have beliefs about yourself or your illness that are limiting you in some way? Limiting your growth, your opportunities, or your chances to feel even just a little bit better? Often times our beliefs are subconscious, and we don’t even realize we have them or how they are affecting us. Amy and Brittany talk about how to figure out what our limiting beliefs are, how to change them, and a few common examples of negative self-talk and limiting beliefs around illness. ☀️CONNEC...

Updated 2/2023. Many of us have specific, individualized habits/routines that we follow to help us manage our symptoms or improve our quality of life. These might include eating a certain way, having a specific sleep/wake time, getting enough daily movement, or anything else. Yet how do we actually stick to the habits/routines we want? There is a whole science, and an art, to building habits. Today Amy and Brittany discuss them and give tips to make habit formation easier. ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ I...

Updated 1/2023. Do you ever feel like endo is in charge of your life, and not you? How can we take back control over our lives and take back our power from endo? We talk about several ways we can take back our lives - on both a physical and emotional level - from the grips of endo. ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixteenyears.com Like my show? Please rate it or leave a review! Support me by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/insixteenyears ⚠️DISCLAIMER⚠️ The inf...

Updated 2/2023. Do you ever feel like endo has robbed you of your life? It can feel like our lives bounce from one sick moment to another, with no escape from pain and suffering. Learning to be mindful and pay attention to the present moment can help us see that our lives are more than pain and appreciate the beautiful moments when they happen. We talk about the importance of being in the present and some ways to achieve this. ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Website: www.insixtee...

Updated 2/2023. For many people with endo, our period is our most dreaded time of the month. Some of us might even be terrified of getting our period because of the excruciating pain it can bring. We might plan our lives around our period because it completely incapacitates us. In this episode, Amy and Brittany talk about some things we can do to try to make this time of the month slightly less miserable, both on a physical and emotional level. ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in16yearsofendo Web...

Updated 2/2023. Going on vacation presents a lot of opportunities for endo to flare: the travel itself, different food than we may normally eat, a bed that’s not your own, stress, being on the go. It’s no surprise that traveling, or even just a holiday or special occasion that we celebrate, can be hard on our body. Amy and Brittany talk about some tips to be successful on our vacations and holidays so we can have as much fun, and as little flares, as possible! ☀️CONNECT WITH AMY☀️ Instagram @in1...

Updated 1/2024. Many of us follow an individualized way of eating to help us manage our symptoms. It’s hard enough to follow our way of eating, but then throw in unwanted, relentless, or obnoxious comments about your food choices from family, friends, or coworkers, and you might be discouraged to continue eating in this way. Amy and Brittany talk about hot to navigate comments people make about your food choices. You can definitely still get tips from this episode, even if you aren’t on any spec...