Comedian Amy Schumer has revealed her longtime health struggles with endometriosis, noting it is a “lonely disease.”
Schumer made the comments during an episode of the Paramount+ docuseries “The Checkup With Dr. David Agus.” A brief clip was posted online before the episode’s air date Tuesday.
“I’ve been in so much pain, you know, my whole life — not just the week of my period; it’s [also] during ovulation,” Schumer said.”I would hopefully get a good week a month where I wasn’t in pretty significant pain, [but] still trying to achieve, still trying to go through life. It’s been really difficult.”
Endometriosis is a chronic disease that occurs when “tissue similar to the tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus — the endometrium — grows outside your uterus,” according to the Mayo Clinic. The disease, which affects hundreds of thousands of women across the world, can cause severe pain.
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Amy Schumer talked about her struggles with endometriosis in a recent interview.
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Last year, Schumer was treated for the disease with a hysterectomy and had her appendix removed because of a tumor created by endometriosis. Before the treatment, Schumer had noticed the severe pain but was unaware of the cause.
“It’s really a lonely, lonely disease,” the 41-year-old celebrity said. “It was just this pain you can’t see. And, you know, there is the inclination to always think a woman is just being dramatic.
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“You tell someone you get really bad cramps, and they’re like “Oh, well, being a woman …’ And you’re like, ‘No, it’s irregular.'” Schumer says that, after receiving treatment, her life has changed, and she feels like a “different person.”
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“It just felt like someone lifted this veil that had been over me. And I just felt like a different person, like, a new mom,” Schumer concluded. “If the trade-off is that you will have a little scar on your belly button and one right next to it … I think scars are cool.”
