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endo warriors: the 'cellular secret' that took me from wanting my uterus out to leaving the house mid-flare

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"why didn't anyone tell me about this sooner? how many things did i miss out on because i didn't know this?"

Hannah M.

Written January 23rd, 2026

I don't really like writing posts like this...

But I just can't keep this to myself anymore.

Because I keep seeing the same threads of endo warriors, who are literally losing their jobs and lives to pelvic pain.

And it makes me feel horrible bc I used to be one of those struggling women.

I suffered for years until I found something crucial I had been missing the whole time.

Something that is simple biology, but isn't talked about enough...

Because I was so focused on managing inflammation or hormones...

And trying more supplements and treatments but it still wasn't enough...

And as I discovered it, I started to get more control over my body, and now I finally feel like the woman I always should've been.

I'm not cured and I still have bad days... but I'm able to have a life.

This is for anyone who has tried all the prescriptions, supplements and exercises but still isn't getting the relief they need.

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Back then, every morning I'd lie still before I even opened my eyes.

Scanning my body...

'Is today a good day? A bad one?'

Most days were more bad than good.

I basically lived with a heating pad at home.

I had pills in my bag everywhere I went.

A TENS machine clipped under my shirt so nobody noticed.

A spare pair of everything just in case.

At work I had another heating pad.

Looking back now, it's a really sad way to live but I had no other choice, no one was helping me...

In fact everyone was gaslighting me, especially the medical system.

I'll never forget one time a co-worker chuckled and said "it's just period cramps I get them too".

I was so angry, but at the same time I'd never felt more invisible.

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For 12 years I had tried everything.

I went gluten-free. Dairy-free. I cut out everything anyone online ever said made inflammation worse.

Supplements from every podcast I'd ever listened to.

I still have drawers of half used supplements.

Castor oil packs. Magnesium baths. And 30+ more things I've tried.

And nothing my doctors handed me helped...

Because none of it was designed to.

The pill was built for contraception.

Advil was built for acute pains.

They weren't answers.

They were the 'best they could do', after they stopped gaslighting me and were forced to admit my pain was real.

And all the while everything was getting worse.

I really felt like I was out of options...

Everything had been stolen from me.

My family. My friends. My dreams.

Everything just gone.

I often think about who I would've been if this didn't happen to me, and all the versions of myself I never got to experience.

But the worst part was, it didn't stop.

I was still stealing from me, every day, every week, every month more of my life was gone.

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Until one day something happened...

I was talking to my best friend, she's an endo sister I met on Reddit.

This woman has made me feel more seen than anyone else, we've literally been there for each other's darkest moments...

Like when she finished medical school, but had to leave her OB-GYN residency in the UK because her pain got so bad.

Well, she was saying that she started looking into cellular energy.

Cellular energy is what your body runs on and it's as foundational as hormones or inflammation.

Then she said something I'll never forget because a few months later it would change my life...

She said that what's interesting is that flares burn a lot of cellular energy.

And that's because cellular energy is the main fuel used for everything including calming pain, inflammation and bloating.

So the less you have of it the worse flares hit.

And that's why you feel exhausted after a flare, because all of it is gone.

And it's also why they can be so hard to tame.

Because if a flare is draining your cellular energy faster than your body can make it, then it's like a phone being drained of its battery before it can charge.

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So I asked her, what does this really mean?

She said what this means is:

It doesn't matter how many things we take if there's not enough cellular energy, the body can't use them to the best of its ability.

She said her research showed how much cellular energy your body has determines how well your body responds to flares.

And that some women just make more cellular energy than others.

I said so what if we had more?

She said our bodies should feel a lot better, we should have less pain, inflammation and bloating.

By that point I was desperate. So I pushed her on it.

I asked her, well how do we get more?

She said from what she'd learned in medical school...

That it's actually really difficult.

That there are really only three ways to raise your cellular energy.

Exercise. Sleep. And diet.

I almost laughed.

I could barely get off the floor some days.

The pain woke me up most nights.

And I'd already cut out every food the internet ever told me to.

I said, that's no help. I'm already doing all of that.

She went quiet for a second.

Then she said, okay... I've actually been looking into something else.

You're probably going to think this is weird.

I told her to just say it, I don't care if something is weird if it works...

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She said photobiomodulation is one of the only things that's been shown to increase cellular energy.

You might know it as red light therapy.

She explained that the light acts like a charger for your cells.

The technical explanation is the light switches on something called Cytochrome C Oxidase, which flips on ATP production in the cell.

The best part is, the pelvis is where most of the cellular energy is drained, and you can charge them right there.

But she was careful about it.

She said it only works if it's the exact right wavelength and the right power make the right dose.

Get any of it wrong and it doesn't happen.

A few days later, she messaged me and said she was sending something to my house.

I asked her what it was.

She said she found a device and that she was going to try it, she said it's got the right dose, and it wasn't too expensive.

So we decided to try it together.

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Here's what happened...

It started off slowly.

I used it once a day for 20 minutes and it was hard to tell if anything was happening...

But about 3 days in I started noticing that the volume on my pain was slightly turned down.

Then a week later during a flare I noticed it wasn't as intense.

I checked in with my friend and she said she was noticing a difference too.

Then 2 weeks in I realized that my Advil was actually working a lot better than normal. It just kicked in, and I was able to start doing things around the house.

Slowly but surely things started to change.

The best way I can describe it is the flares just stopped wiping me out and stopped being as intense.

And everything I was doing to reduce inflammation just started to click into place.

Soon enough I was going out more often and enjoying nights out with my friends.

I'll never forget the moment I was at a family dinner and my niece said to my sister, "Mom, Aunt Hannah doesn't look tired today."

That one stayed with me. I had to look away for a second.

Because I hadn't realized how long I'd been wearing it on my face.

And after that, the little things just kept coming.

Then I started leaving the house daily and realizing that I didn't pack my TENS or take any pills.

I just forgot about them and felt okay about it.

There was the weekend away I said yes to without once opening my calendar to check if it landed on a bad week.

There were the nights I slept all the way through, instead of waking at 2am and creeping downstairs to sit with a heating pad in the dark.

And there was the morning I pulled on a pair of jeans, proper ones with a waistband, and remembered I hadn't done that in years.

I even stopped rehearsing what I'd say when I called in sick. Because I wasn't making that call anymore.

And my friend?

She felt it too.

We'd gone from texting each other at 2am, trading what hurt and what didn't, to sending each other photos from places we never thought we'd have the energy to be.

She told me the other week she's started looking into going back to medicine. The thing the pain took from her, she's reaching for it again.

This has been such a game changer for us. It's not the end all and be all, and like I've said I still have bad days, but it's the thing that put control back into my hands.

And it's really simple — it's because I have more cellular energy, it's like supplementing cellular energy.

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I need to be honest with you, if what you're using right now is working... then this is not for you.

But I don't think you'd have read this far if it was.

If you're still running the scan before you open your eyes.

Still packing the bag.

Still rehearsing what you'll say when you call in.

Still saying no to things you'd give anything to say yes to.

Or if you just want more control back.

Then I wrote all of this for you.

I'm not going to tell you it's a cure. It absolutely is not. There is no known cure.

But I haven't had one of those days, the kind that takes the whole week from you, in a long time.

And every day you wait, the flares are still doing what they do. Still draining the one thing your body needs to fight back.

You don't have to keep white-knuckling your way through it.

I didn't know there was another way either. Until someone showed me.

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I debated whether I should've posted this.

But I keep seeing women struggling...

And people kept asking me. At dinners. In my messages. The same question my friend once asked a stranger on Reddit.

"What are you using?"

So I thought I'd tell my story.

Now, I'm going to leave a link below for those who are interested in the device I use.

It's got the right dose, it's actually made for pelvic pain, and it doesn't cost a small fortune unlike most other devices.

They do have a money back guarantee as well so that's always a bonus.

I honestly don't know how long they'll stay in stock.

But if you're interested you should be able to check if it's available below.

Thanks for reading & I wish you luck on your journey.

Have an amazing day,

Love Hannah.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hannah is 31. She spent twelve years being told her pain was normal.

Today she's a blogger and following her dreams as a professional photographer. She lives in New York.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hannah is 31. She spent twelve years being told her pain was normal.

Today she's a blogger and following her dreams as a professional photographer. She lives in New York.

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