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for some 20 years was finally diagnosed with a revealing ailment — helping to clear up a mystery that began plaguing her even before she became a teenager.
She was informed by doctors that what she was experiencing was “normal,” she told the news agency — and that she was just someone who was “unlucky” to have painful menstrual periods. She said doctors told her that even if she did have endometriosis, “all they would do is put me on the pill.”“I also feel heartbroken,” she told SWNS, “thinking about myself as an 11-year-old who had no idea she was about to go through so many of these things.”
She said she’s had “this condition damaging her organs for 22 years — that’s a lot of damage to unpick, so surgeries are never magic and always provide a pain-free life.”Janet Lindsay, CEO of Wellbeing of Women, told SWNS, “Endometriosis is a condition that affects the lives of many women, often for years before a diagnosis is made … For too long, women’s pain has been dismissed or misunderstood.”
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