You wouldn’t want to find one in your candy box.
Bindi Irwin has revealed that she is rebounding from major double surgery after three years of “fighting for answers” about her health issues — and it included removal of a whole organ as well as a “chocolate cyst.”
“Fifty-one endometriosis lesions, a chocolate cyst, and my appendix were all removed across two surgeries,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “I can FINALLY say that I’m feeling better. Genuinely healing. I can function in everyday life without wanting to throw up or pass out from the pain.”
While many women are familiar with endometriosis — which is when tissue, similar to the lining of your uterus, starts growing outside it — “chocolate cysts” may not be on your radar. 4
In endometriosis, the misplaced tissue acts just