Endometriosis is a prevalent, sometimes debilitating and often overlooked gynaecological condition that affects one in ten women in Scotland.Women with the condition often have their symptoms dismissed or are told they are "normal," according to Endometriosis UK.
Alarmingly, it takes an average of eight years to receive a diagnosis of endometriosis in the UK.This week, Bindi Irwin, daughter of Steve Irwin, the late wildlife conservationist and TV personality also known as The Crocodile Hunter, revealed she suffered 10 years of "agonising pain" before being diagnosed with Endometriosis.Speaking on A Life of Greatness podcast with host Sarah Grynberg, Bindi, 26, explained: "Behind closed doors I was struggling to do anything and everything.
I was getting so sick from this disease that I would try to get up and I would just throw up, I was in so much pain all the time."The mother-of-one said endometriosis "is an enormous problem for so many people and it's not being talked about a lot," adding: "I went for 10 years undiagnosed because doctors really didn't know enough."They diagnosed me with a million other things...
the symptoms continued to snowball and it took me such a long time to find help and it’s a story that so many women and girls know all too well."Bindi "had every scan" and was "tested for every tropical disease" before her diagnosis.
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