Mum living in constant pain for 16 years told 'it's just part of being a woman'
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dailystar.co.ukWales Online. Despite going back and forth to the doctors she was given a variety of reasons for her pain. It all started when her periods began when she was 11 years old but it took seven years for her to be diagnosed with the condition.According to Endometriosis UK, the average time to diagnose the condition in Wales is 8.5 years.
Anna, 27, said: "It was my 11th birthday when I started my period and my mum hadn’t prepared me for it, I didn’t know what was going on."I struggled with really painful, really heavy, erratic periods.
I’d be bleeding for like two months at a time."She went on: "I'd be back and forth to the doctors and they’d say 'It’s growing pains, you’re growing up, it’s just part of being a woman'.
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