Navel Endometriosis – Complete

Desperation drove her to the internet. She typed the words she was afraid to say aloud: Belly button bleeding with period.

She knew what endometriosis was. Tissue from the uterine lining growing where it shouldn’t—on ovaries, on bowels, on the lining of the pelvis. But in the navel ? navel endometriosis

Clara never got her old navel back. In its place was a pale, straight line. She would look at it sometimes in the bath, the water rippling over the scar. It was a reminder of a strange, quiet war fought in a tiny, forgotten corner of her body. A war she had won by refusing to be a ghost in her own story. Desperation drove her to the internet

The search results were a ghost town of old forum posts and abandoned questions. But one link, a PDF from the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology , caught her eye. The title was dense and impenetrable, but one word glowed on the screen: Tissue from the uterine lining growing where it

She ignored it for three months. Then it bled.

The treatment was a surgery called an umbilical excision. Dr. Ionescu explained it simply: “We cut out the bad tissue, down to the fascia of the abdominal wall, and sew the healthy skin back together. You’ll lose the deep shape of your navel, but you’ll gain your life back.”