Savannah Chrisley Recalls Undergoing 'Multiple Surgeries' for Her Endometriosis, Says 'It Was Tough on My Body'

Savannah Chrisley gets candid about her health journey.

During the September 24 episode of the reality star Unlocked podcast, Chrisley, 27, opened up about her experience with endometriosis while considering freezing her eggs.

Chrisley said she had seen a doctor to get a consultation for egg freezing and had an ultrasound. She mentioned her “struggle with endometriosis” and how it can be “very discouraging” at times.

“I’ve had multiple surgeries. My last surgery was in Atlanta and there’s a video,” she said of her YouTube account. “I’m talking about that process, about endometriosis and how hard it was on my body,” she said, noting that she had to undergo over 400 DNA tests, which were positive for only three traits.

A combination of her and a potential partner’s DNA test results could determine whether their child could also be positive.

Savannah Chrisley.

Savannah Chrisley/Instagram

Savannah Chrisley ‘plans’ to freeze her eggs so she doesn’t ‘feel the pressure’ to have a baby

Later in the podcast, the reality star mentions how she’s “so thankful for science” because of how “difficult” her endometriosis diagnosis is. “The doctor said, ‘You could get pregnant naturally, but you could also have trouble conceiving.’ ”

“You won’t have a problem carrying a child, but that’s an aspect of conception,” she added. Chrisley chose to focus on the positive side of the results and chose to “be grateful for the things that were put in front of me like science and egg freezing and then IVF”.

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Chrisley was diagnosed with endometriosis, a disease “in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus,” according to the WHO, when she was 18. “It can cause severe pelvic pain and make it difficult to get pregnant.”

During an August 2020 interview with PEOPLE, the reality star revealed that when she got her period for the first time, she “just thought the pain was normal. But then it got worse and worse.”

“People who don’t suffer from it don’t really understand,” Chrisley said of her experience. “They brush it off and say that painful periods are just part of it. Other people don’t really understand where you’re coming from and you feel like you’re alone in it.”

Savannah Chrisley.

Savannah Chrisley/Instagram

After she opened up about her diagnosis on her parents’ podcast Chrisley Confessionsshe found a “community” that supported her.

“A lot of other women messaged me on Instagram about it and shared their stories,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “It makes me feel good that people feel they can be vulnerable about what they’re going through because I was vulnerable about it. It was really encouraging.”

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