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<\/p>\nBindi Irwin revealed on Tuesday she has a ‘second chance at life’ following her endometriosis surgery in America after suffering in pain for 10 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Wildlife Warrior, 24, said she ‘was barely able to get out of bed’ the week before her surgery because the agony was so great, reported Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
After suffering for a decade and being told by one doctor it was ‘something women just have to deal with’, Bindi was able to undergo major surgery in the US in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She told Fox News Digital this week: ‘My life now looks completely different than it did before I had my surgery.<\/p>\n
‘Over the 10 years that I was really battling with endo without knowing it, I would get progressively worse every week and in the end, before my surgery, I was barely able to get out of bed.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Bindi Irwin, 24, revealed on Tuesday she has a ‘second chance at life’ following her endometriosis surgery in America after suffering in pain for 10 years. Pictured with her mother Terri, daughter Grace, and husband Chandler Powell<\/p>\n
The daughter of the late Steve ‘the Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin spoke for the first time about her decade-long struggle with the disease in a lengthy Instagram post on March 8.<\/p>\n
The celebrity conservationist, who shares daughter Grace Warrior, one, with her husband Chandler Powell, also posted a confronting photo of herself in a hospital bed after the surgery.<\/p>\n
The Crikey! It’s the Irwins star said she had spent ten years ‘torn apart [by] the pain’ and knew she had to have surgery because she ‘couldn’t live like I was’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Wildlife Warrior said she ‘was barely able to get out of bed’ the week before her surgery because the agony was so great, reported Fox News Digital\u00a0<\/p>\n
She explained how the surgeon from the Seckin Endometriosis Center in\u00a0New York City had removed a total of thirty-seven lesions and a ‘chocolate cyst’ – a term for a cyst filled with menstrual blood.<\/p>\n
The practitioners at the Seckin Endometriosis Center typically perform surgeries at Lenox Hill Hospital, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Endometriosis is an often painful condition in which the tissue that lines the uterus also grows outside the uterus.<\/p>\n
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After suffering for a decade and being told by one doctor it was ‘something women just have to deal with’, Bindi was able to undergo major surgery in the US in March\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are a wide variety of symptoms: pain can affect areas ranging from the abdomen and lower back to the pelvis and vagina.<\/p>\n
Other symptoms include painful sexual intercourse, abnormal menstruation, nausea, bloating, and pain with bowel movements. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bindi at first wasn’t sure if she wanted to discuss her health publicly, but decided to speak out because she hoped to help other women struggling with endometriosis.<\/p>\n
She also wanted to draw attention to the fact doctors often do not take the condition seriously enough, noting how one physician had once told her the pain was just a normal part of being a woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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She told Fox News Digital this week: ‘My life now looks completely different than it did before I had my surgery. Chandler and Bindi are pictured on their wedding day in March 2020\u00a0<\/p>\n
Endometriosis is present when the tissue that is similar to the lining of the uterus (womb) grows outside this layer and causes pain and\/or infertility.<\/p>\n
There are a wide variety of symptoms – pain can affect areas ranging from the abdomen and lower back to the pelvis and vagina.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other symptoms include painful sexual intercourse, abnormal menstruation, nausea, bloating, and pain with bowel movements. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The only way that the diagnosis of endometriosis can be made is to undergo a laparoscopy and have a tissue sample taken.<\/p>\n
There is no cure, but treatments such as hormones and excision surgery are available.<\/p>\n