Yes, yes, yes, this is also my story, almost exactly. Although I am older than you and gave birth to 6 babies with no health complications before they diagnosed me. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t always have this problem, like you, from a very young teen I was missing school, in excruciating pain and had very heavy cycles causing iron deficiency. And the hormones never worked (my parents were not opposed to them and by the time I was 18 we had tried EVERY available option) eventually they always made things worse…our stories are very similar. My childbearing years were just a brief reprieve from the pain. I still struggle with iron deficiency and being ‘knocked out’ from the loss of blood and pain during my cycles. I’m about to hit 40 now, but I am stubborn and just don’t want to have my uterus removed. I think it is complete garbage to even label removal of a sick organ as a cure. It may be the only treatment available that can end the pain, but they are certainly not fixing anything or bringing our bodies back to a state of wholeness, so it is not a cure. I have found a TENS unit to be surprisingly helpful to keep the pain levels down.