Patient ID | Daily pain not associated with vaginal bleeding | Pain prior to/following vaginal bleeding | Pain during vaginal bleeding | Pain associated with sexual intercourse | Patient quotes when asked “Tell me how endometriosis makes you feel physically?” |
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US-04 | Constant mild pain | No different to rest of month | Severe | No different to rest of month | “On a daily experience, it’s not that bad. You kind of get used to the pain. It’s when your menstrual cycle comes that it’s really bad” |
US-09 | Unpredictable: Either no pain or severe pain | No different to rest of month | No different to rest of month | No different to rest of month | “Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t.[…] It might flare up, it might not.[…] If it happens, then it happens, and I’m just kind of out of the ballgame at that point” |
US-17 | Constant moderate pain | Severe | Severe | Severe | “…lately it has been pretty doggone constant” |