Written by Heather Yoshimura, MSN, AGNP-BC · UCSF School of Nursing · Author, The Endo Dilemma · Last reviewed
For women still in pain after endometriosis surgery · NY · IL · CO · AZ

Surgery was supposed to fix it. You're still in pain.

I built The Endo Recovery Protocol™ for the women who fell through the same cracks I did.

Book the Endo Pain Signature — $149 → Learn about The Endo Recovery Protocol™ →
Heather Yoshimura, MSN, AGNP-BC · UCSF-trained · Author, The Endo Dilemma
“My periods have been mostly pain-free — something I never thought I'd say or experience.” — J.N., stage 4 · 4 months into the Protocol
6 systems Treated together
4 months Coordinated care
$149 Starts everything
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Where I've worked
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The gap in endo care

Standard care offers two options. Neither addresses the six systems driving the inflammation underneath.

The Endo Recovery Protocol™

Six systems. One downstream consequence.

Run the loop long enough and the brain itself starts to change — what I call . Hover any system to see what it does.

Endo Numbness Syndrome™

After years of endometriosis, pain becomes the only language your body can speak — everything else gets crowded out. That's Endo Numbness Syndrome™, and it's the part of endo nobody else is treating.

The Three Pain Mechanisms

Three pain types. Most patients have more than one.

Each mechanism has its own driver, its own screener, and its own treatment path. Knowing which are active in your case is how you stop guessing.

Care is easy.

Book the Pain Signature — $149 → Learn about the Protocol →

What could cost you a hysterectomy is $3,499.

Your endo doesn't have to be the thing that takes your uterus.

HSA / FSA eligible

The Endo Recovery Protocol™

$997/month for 4 months · or $3,499 in full

  • 90-minute deep-dive first visit
  • 8 bi-weekly 1-on-1 visits
  • Direct messaging access (same-day weekday response)
  • Full lab panel + BHRT + 2026 prescribing inventory
  • Six-system treatment over 4 months
  • The Endo Numbness Syndrome™ Recovery Track
  • Welcome Kit + Graduation Kit
  • Three guarantees · No applications · No sales calls
Book The Endo Pain Signature — $149 →

Every Protocol patient enters through the Pain Signature.
$149 credited toward enrollment.

Delivered within 24 hours of your visit

A walkthrough of a sample Endo Pain Signature.

Most endo patients have never had their case written out — mechanisms named, systems profiled, priorities sequenced. That's what the Pain Signature is.

Cover — Your Endo Pain Signature
Sample — pain mechanisms scored
Sample — six-system profile
Sample — starting action plan

Plus two letters ship with every PDF: a Provider-Facing Letter for your other clinicians, and a Partner & Family Letter for the people who love you.

Book your Pain Signature — $149 →

Not your average endo appointment.

 

 

Standard care

Birth control or surgery

Luteal Health

The Protocol

Treatment focus
Lesions + hormones only
All six body systems
Appointment length
12–15 minutes
45 min Pain Signature · 90 min Protocol first visit
Provider coordination
5 specialists who don't talk
One provider, one coordinated plan
Between-visit access
Patient portal that goes nowhere
Direct messaging, same-day weekday
Nervous system retraining
Not offered
Built in
Endo Numbness Syndrome™
Not screened or treated
Named clinical target with its own Recovery Track
Pelvic floor PT
Sometimes referred
Warm handoff included
2026 prescribing inventory
Rarely prescribed
Standard practice (LDN · BHRT · GLP-1s · peptides)
Pricing
Insurance-mediated, no transparency
$149 Pain Signature → $3,499 Protocol, flat
Designed to graduate you out
No — patient-for-life model
Yes — 4 months, then independence
Heather Yoshimura, MSN, AGNP-BC, founder of Luteal Health
Heather Yoshimura, MSN, AGNP-BC
UCSF-trained · Author, The Endo Dilemma
Meet your provider

I almost said yes to a hysterectomy in my late 20s.

I had two excision surgeries — one of them performed by Dr. Tamer Seckin, co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America — and I'd spent over $125,000 trying to get my body back. I was still in pain.

Instead of the hysterectomy on the table, I asked a different question — and the answer is what The Endo Recovery Protocol™ is built on.

The Endo Dilemma — a book by Heather Yoshimura
My book The Endo Dilemma The clinician-patient memoir behind the Protocol — what surgery doesn't fix, and what does. Read on Amazon →

Read my full story →

Real patient outcomes.

JN

From considering hysterectomy to mostly pain-free periods.

RB

“The best general health practitioner I've seen, period.”

LB

“I always felt heard, believed, and cared for.”

DD

“The most effective and caring practitioner I've ever worked with.”

What if it doesn't work?

1

Pain Signature Clarity Guarantee

If your $149 visit doesn't deliver real clarity — which mechanisms are active, how your systems interact, your priorities in order — email me within 7 days and it's refunded.

2

Heard, Believed, Listened-To Guarantee

If you don't feel listened to inside the Protocol, message me. We pause. We recalibrate. If we can't repair it, you exit with a prorated refund.

3

Show Up, See Movement Guarantee

Complete the work and you'll understand your case across the six systems by month 4. If you can't articulate the framework, Phase 3 is on me.

Don't make endo your whole life.

Book The Endo Pain Signature — $149 → Learn about The Endo Recovery Protocol™
NY · IL · CO · AZ · HSA / FSA eligible · No applications, no sales calls