Endo Battery
You are not alone. You are not imagining it. And you deserve answers.
Welcome to Endo Battery, a podcast for anyone navigating endometriosis, adenomyosis, chronic pelvic pain, chronic illness, or the often overwhelming journey to diagnosis, treatment, and healing.
Endometriosis can take more than your health. It can drain your energy, your confidence, your relationships, your fertility, your career, and the life you thought you would have. Adenomyosis and chronic pelvic pain can leave you feeling just as exhausted, dismissed, and misunderstood. Endo Battery was created to help you recharge.
Hosted by endometriosis advocate and Endo Warrior Alanna Trzcinski, Endo Battery brings together real patient stories, leading medical experts, researchers, surgeons, pelvic health professionals, and advocates to explore what is really happening inside the world of endometriosis and chronic illness.
But this isn't just another medical podcast.
Endo Battery is a place where science meets lived experience. Where difficult conversations become empowering ones. Where patients can learn how to advocate for themselves, understand their options, ask better questions, and feel less alone.
Each episode explores topics including:
• Endometriosis diagnosis, symptoms, and misdiagnosis
• Adenomyosis and chronic pelvic pain
• Excision surgery, ablation, and treatment options
• Fertility and endometriosis
• Hormones, hysterectomy, surgical menopause, and HRT
• Pelvic floor health and pelvic physical therapy
• Nerve pain, neuropelviology, and the nervous system
• Endometriosis outside the pelvis, including bowel and thoracic endometriosis
• Chronic illness, inflammation, and complex conditions
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, POTS, MCAS, and other overlapping conditions
• Patient advocacy, medical gaslighting, and navigating healthcare
• Emerging research and the future of endometriosis care
• The emotional reality of living with chronic illness
You'll hear from people who have lived through years of pain and uncertainty, as well as experts working to change the way endometriosis and chronic illness are understood, diagnosed, and treated.
Because knowledge can be empowering. The right information can change the questions you ask, the care you seek, and the way you understand your own body.
Most importantly, Endo Battery is about more than a diagnosis.
It's about the person behind the diagnosis.
It's about finding your voice when you've been told your pain is normal. Finding hope when you're exhausted. Finding community when you feel isolated. And finding the energy to keep moving forward when chronic illness has taken so much from you.
Whether you've just started wondering if you have endometriosis, you're newly diagnosed, you've been fighting for answers for years, you're recovering from surgery, you're living with adenomyosis or chronic pelvic pain, or you're a loved one or healthcare provider trying to understand more—there is a place for you here.
This is your reminder that you don't have to navigate it alone.
Charge forward with us.
Listen. Learn. Question. Advocate. Recharge.
Welcome to Endo Battery.
Endo Battery
Talking all things Nancy's Nook, the Pioneering of Excision Surgery, Progress of Endometriosis Education, and Endo History with Nancy Petersen
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In this episode we have the massive honor of sitting down with Nancy Petersen from Nancy's Nook, which most know her today from an ever growing Facebook educational page for Endometriosis currently supporting about 170k people! Her mission for this page is, "Supporting you to understand the disease, advocate for your health, and get the best possible treatment." We believe she is the true pioneer and attribute the progress of Endometriosis treatment to her trail blazing years of traveling around, educating on this disease, and creating this group to support the ever growing numbers in the fight for this disease!
Nancy walks us through her journey of diagnosis, failed treatment with ablation surgery and a total hysterectomy leaving her with untreated leg pain, which ultimately lead her to finding Dr. Redwine and his studies.
Nancy tells us the story of forming Nancy's Nook with an effort to share information to people seeking non-big pharma education and research to all patients in effort to better advocate for themselves. Part of this education is knowing that endometriosis takes not only a physical toll on our bodies, but a toll on our mental health. Nancy talks about how far the Endometriosis and Adenomyosis community has come, however, the abundance of gaslighting and trauma is still too much.
Once given a diagnosis, if surgery is not done by a skilled Endometriosis surgeon, disease is often missed. We learn that reproductive organs such as, uterus, ovaries, cervix are not the main location of Endometriosis, but the lower pelvis is a big culprit to this invasive disease.
Nancy is a wealth of knowledge and educates for women's health.
She shares her expertise on:
- proper diagnosis
- gaslighting
- chronic pain
- proper education
- mental health resources
- continued advocacy on Endometriosis and other chronic diseases that often can be closely associated with Endometriosis.
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a notebook because you will be enlighten along the way! We hope you enjoy and learn just as much as we did from Nancy Petersen!
https://nancysnookendo.com/
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Website endobattery.com