In her own words, Dr Kelly Naff tells her traumatic story: Walking up the stairs of a beachside restaurant where I was enjoying dinner with my friends, I suddenly felt that familiar gush of blood.
Rushing to the toilet I saw the blood had leaked through my sanitary towel and soiled my trousers, I had to go home. Again, shame and disappointment washed over me.
I was in my 20s and should have been worrying about love and relationships, but not for the first time I was thinking about suicide, I was so desperate.
As a teenager I’d suffered painful, heavy periods, but over the years they’d got to the point where I’d bleed for weeks at a time.
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