While some patients experience no symptoms, most patients with endometriosis experience one or more of the following symptoms:
- Pain:
- Disabling or increasingly painful menstrual cycles
- Pelvic pain at any time of the cycle/ chronic pelvic pain
- Pain with intercourse
- Back or leg pain during menstruation
- Gastrointestinal symptoms:
- Constipation, diarrhea, or cycling between the two
- Abdominal bloating
- Nausea and vomiting
- Painful bowel movement
- Bladder symptoms:
- Bladder pain
- Urinary urgency
- Urinary frequency
- Pain with urination
- Fertility issues
- Infertility
- Recurrent pregnancy loss
- Fatigue