Imagine yourself as a second grader. Life was pretty simple, right? You could go through life and not really give a care about anything simply because half the time you had no idea what anyone was talking about to begin with.

Now imagine having an intense abdominal pain and without notice your mom takes you to the ER and one thing comes after another and turns out you're admitted for the next week. Now being a 2nd grader, you hear "hospital" and automatically believe your time has come.

However, a week passes, you feel better. The doctors told you what was going on, but you have no clue what any of the big doctor words meant. All you know is that you're cured from whatever the heck was making your belly hurt so much.

This was me in second grade and little did I know that what caused my pain would cause me a great deal of struggle that no high schooler should have to worry about, but it happens more often to females than people think. And it happens to be cliche to talk about it because no one talks about it.

There's this stigma against women's health. It's considered "inappropriate conversation" when a female at the high school age brings up topics about their health that affects their reproductive system with anyone other than their mom or their closest female friend.

When it comes to covering the sex education portion of health class, the female system gets quickly covered and there's lots of topics of health that effects the woman's reproductive system that get glazed over and females at this age can be dealing with and simply not know when to go speak to a doctor. Or they go speak to a doctor and then their family automatically thinks they partake in particular activities, even though they just want some relief.

The pain that caused me to head into the hospital while in second grade was due to multiple cysts that were on my ovaries. And there have been multiple times that I have had to been hospitalized due to cysts that have grown on my ovaries. When I was 16, I ended up being hospitalized again for this and decided I needed to go talk to an OBGYN about what the heck is going on. No other female around me was having the same issues I was, at least that's what I thought.

I talked to a doctor and found out that I had something called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and was put on medication in order to prevent future cysts forming. I also realized that my periods were not considered normal at all, but I did not know because no one simply talked about what is normal and when I should go talk to someone about it.

Now like any other 16 year-old medical professional, I decided to go onto webMD and read about what the heck this was. And at the age of 16 I dealt with the panic of "what if this made me infertile"? And had to deal with the internal battle of possibly not being able to fulfill my dream of becoming a mom one day. No 16 year old should have to deal with this heavy subject at this age, nor should any woman at any age, but it happens. However, I felt alone because I thought I was the only 16 year old who's factory hated her.

POS affects every 1 in 10 women and begins around when puberty hits. That's a hand full of young females. Often times it goes unnoticed or young girls just assume that their period is normal and without treatment can lead to further damaging issues and the same goes for if it is caught early on for there is no cure for this syndrome, just ways to prevent and subside symptoms of it. For more information click here.

It wasn't until the summer after Senior year (this past summer) that I meet this wonderful female who happens to be another version of me but just a few years older than I, that I realized I was not the only high school aged female that dealt with the things I was dealing with.

After I moved into my dorm, girls get real close to each other and as I got to know my roommates and hall-mates (we'll use that as a new term now), I realized that there are a lot of weird feminine health issues that I was unaware of or found other people who had similar issues I did.

And we all have the same story, things came up at a young age and there are no blogs about dealing with this at a young age, only the medical facts, which we all know when we look up our symptoms on webMD it's obviously cancer and we are going to die. But no one would talk about these topics while we were young, why?

Why is it okay to ask a young female how many kids she is going to want one day, but not bring up the possible issues that can arise that can cause them to not have the ability to? Why is it that during sex ed all we talk about are STI's and child brith? Why is it that there's a stigma against talking about women's health in general especially at a young age?

I understand that personal health is personal and people have their right to privacy. However, there's all this information that doesn't get passed on to the younger generation of girls and there are a lot of them out there who are dealing with "am I going to be able to have kids?".

We need to be more open and honest with our female youth today for there are lots of things that our younger generation are dealing with, that we as a society don't even bring up as an issue.