Amy Schumer Says Endometriosis Can ‘Strip You of Everything You Love’ After Years-Long Struggle

The actress, 45, shared alarming facts about the painful condition

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• Amy Schumer shared alarming facts about endometriosis, including its ability to grow on any organ and cause pain
• Schumer was diagnosed after her son’s 2019 birth and underwent a hysterectomy and appendectomy to treat the condition
• She described feeling validated after learning the extent of her condition and stressed the need for more research

Amy Schumer is detailing how difficult it can be to live with severe endometriosis.

On Sunday, June 7, the Kinda Pregnant actress, 45, posted on her Instagram Stories and shared a few jarring facts about the reproductive condition, stressing the need for more research.

“Endometriosis affects 10% of women,” she said. “The average diagnosis delay is 7-10 years.”

“Endometriosis can grow onto almost ANY organ in your body,” she wrote, adding that it “can create its own nerve supply…meaning it quite literally crest pathways for pain.”

“These facts are devastating, but this goes to show how much this community deserves the time, money and research,” she continued. “It’s especially as important to recognize how truly strong you have to be to live with something that can strip you of everything you love in the blink of an eye.”

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In May 2025, Schumer spoke about her experience with endometriosis at the 13th Annual Endometriosis Foundation of America’s Blossom Ball. She recalled living in “pain that nobody can see” for “most days of the month” before receiving her official diagnosis.

Endometriosis “is a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus,” according to the World Health Organization, which estimates that approximately 190 million women worldwide have the disease.

It wasn’t until the 2019 birth of her son, Gene David Fischer, whom she shares with her estranged husband Chris Fischer, that Schumer said her doctor diagnosed her with endometriosis and adenomyosis — when tissue grows into the uterine wall — and sent her to see Dr. Tamer Seckin, founder of the advocacy group EndoFound.

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Schumer said it was “a unique experience to have the proof for the first time. To sit down in his office, and have him go through and show me the 33 [attachments] that I had from endo. That my appendix was being choked by endometriosis.”

“That I had chocolate cysts [which are full of old blood] in my ovaries,” she continued. “And that it was a miracle that I was able to carry a child.”

The conversation, she said, left her “just weeping and weeping and weeping.”

“Sitting there, feeling seen, he lifted the pain out of my body. I am pain-free now for about five or six years,” Schumer said.

The actress ultimately underwent a hysterectomy and an appendectomy to help treat the disease in September 2021.