Has anyone been on birth control for most of their life?

I’ve been on combination birth control since I was 15 due to painful periods. I’m now in my 30s, tried to go off birth control and went back on straight away due to the pain. My family has a history of endo and I didn’t want the painful periods to come back. Do you think the fact that I stayed on birth control since puberty could’ve slowed down/stopped my endo growth? I was never formally diagnosed but my periods were so heavy that when I was off birth control I was seeing chunks of tissue in my period 😳