Opening up.

Bachelor Nation fans are getting to know Lexi on Season 28 of “The Bachelor,” and this week she opened up to Joey Graziadei about her journey with endometriosis.

Now, Lexi stopped by the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast to talk to Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt about her diagnosis and where she’s at today.

Lexi started off by explaining, “It was 10 years of me being in pain and not knowing what was going on with my body. Things got a lot worse in the back half of living in San Francisco and when I moved to New York. I started going to so many different doctors and I was being diagnosed with things I didn’t even have. I was being diagnosed with autoimmune disorders and taking medications for them and I didn’t have those.”

She continued on, sharing, “It takes women on average 10 years to get a diagnosis for endo. That was my timeline, and it’s so sad to hear that. A lot of the doctors will turn you away or turn you to a psychiatrist to make you believe that your pain is in your head. Endo has to be diagnosed surgically, so that adds another layer of complexity to get a diagnosis.”

Lexi discussed how she felt going into surgery and how she had mixed feelings about being diagnosed.

She said, “You don’t know until you wake up from the surgery if you have endo or not, so I remember walking into NYU that day thinking, do I want to have this or do I not? It’s a weird thing because I had gone through 10 years of pain and multiple years of appointments that I felt like I finally kind of had an answer. This doctor had a really strong hunch that I had it. Then I was like, the reality of actually having it is a whole other thing to deal with. I didn’t know how to feel.”

Serena asked Lexi about how her experience has been since getting diagnosed and what her life has been like recently.

Lexi got candid, saying, “It’s been an uphill battle, if I’m being honest. I have good weeks and I have really bad weeks. I have been on so many different medications to try to get it to a place where it’s controllable. I am at the point right now where they want me to have a second surgery. A lot of times, women have two or three, but because I’m 30, they want me to have it as close as possible to when I want to conceive.”

She went on, sharing, “The reason for that is because they go in and clean up all that tissue that’s not supposed to be there, which puts you in an optimal state to have a child. That is really hard for me because the only solve is something I can’t even do at this moment in time. They don’t want you to have too many surgeries either because they cause a lot of scar tissue. Right now, I feel like I’m being pushed into a corner of having to power through the pain and make the most of it, but it’s challenging.”

We know that Lexi sharing her story will help so many others. If you want to hear more of her conversation with Joe and Serena, check out the full episode of “Bachelor Happy Hour” below.