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I started having really bad stomach issues when I was 9 years old, but things got so much worse when I got my first period at age 11. I didn’t understand why I was in so much more pain every month than any of my friends.
By 10 th grade, the nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and sharp abdominal pain were so bad every single day, I could barely get to school in the morning, and when I did, I would go straight to the nurse’s office.
My parents took me to all the best doctors in New Jersey and New York City; they would do lab work and imaging and then tell us that everything looked fine. But I knew I was experiencing real pain.
My mom asked…
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