Endometriosis

And why the plan has to be made on a good day.

A rule changed in March. Most clinics haven't caught up.

Idaho has lost more than a third of its OB-GYNs since 2022. Gynecologic care is falling to family medicine. And in March 2026 ACOG moved endometriosis diagnosis into primary care. Nobody has joined those three facts. A rural health center CEO does.

One in ten women of working age has endometriosis, and the best global data says each one loses close to eleven hours of work a week, mostly while sitting at her desk. A CEO who employs hundreds of women, and who is married to one with the disease, on what an employer can actually do.

The numbers behind endometriosis diagnostic delay, cited by organization and date: four to twelve years from the WHO, ten years in a 2026 French cohort, nine years four months and rising in the UK, and the 2011 finding that the delay sits in primary care. And why it is finally changing.

In March, ACOG said a doctor no longer has to confirm endometriosis surgically before treating it. That moves the work into primary care, in a state short on specialists. A health center CEO and endo dad on what the change actually asks of a clinic.

Painful periods are common in teenagers. Periods that keep her out of school are not a phase. A father of a daughter with endometriosis on what to watch for, what to say, and what changed in 2026 that gives you a real way to push for answers.

Every guide tells men to be supportive. None of them tell you what to do in the exam room. Here is the job, step by step: the timeline, what to write down, the one question to ask when you are told to wait and see, and the rule about not speaking for her.

A husband's honest guide to supporting a wife with endometriosis: what to say, what to stop doing, and how to help without handing her another job. Written by a man who got most of it wrong first.

What a father needs to know about endometriosis when his daughter or his wife is the one in pain: what the disease is, why it takes years to name, what belief looks like in practice, and where to start today. From the dad who wrote the book with that subtitle.

The argument behind the book: why belief, not expertise, is the first thing a woman with endometriosis needs from the people around her, why it takes nine years to get it from medicine, and what it costs when the people who love her make her prove it too. Chapter one is free.