Supermodel Barbara Palvin is sharing her longtime struggle with mysterious menstrual symptoms, which culminated in a long-awaited diagnosis and treatment. “I had laparoscopic surgery for both adenomyosis and endometriosis,” she wrote in a reply to a fan who commented on her Instagram post. Both conditions stem from an overgrowth of endometrial tissue: for endometriosis, tissue grows outside the uterus, whereas the tissue is embedded into the uterine wall with adenomyosis. The 31-year-old, known for her Victoria’s Secret runway struts, opened up about the “difficulties” she’d experienced in the previous years with her period, citing “fatigue, severe pain, heavy and irregular flow,” and dreaded “sleepless nights on the bathroom floor.” Palvin believed her regular check-ups at the gynecologis
Victoria’s Secret Model Gets Diagnosis After ‘Years’ of Mystery Pain

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