It's more than just ‘bad periods’ 😭

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00:00I've tried every single thing, painkiller-wise, medication-wise, to try and stop the growth of this endo, but not doing anything.

00:07So I started my periods when I was like 16, so I was quite late when I started them.

00:11And even from the first period, I had unbearable cramps.

00:14And this went on for a few years. I didn't know what endometriosis was at the time.

00:17I just thought it was bad cramps.

00:19But things quickly began to escalate.

00:21In 2021, I had a lump, like I could feel it, and it was really sore whenever I got touched.

00:27I was being sick all the time. I was losing weight.

00:30I couldn't work, probably. When I was at work, I couldn't sit down because it was too unbearable, the pain.

00:35And then I ended up going to the doctors, and they referred me to A&E and said,

00:39you need to see someone for that. And obviously, I was panicked.

00:41I was like, well, what is it? But they wouldn't see anything.

00:43I got drips and stuff and IVs in it because they said I was so dehydrated and I was so skinny.

00:49But obviously, this was because I couldn't keep anything down because of the pain of the endo.

00:53And then I had a few ultrasounds, et cetera, done.

00:56And what they found was any woman's worst nightmare.

01:00And they said that it was a nine-centimeter endometriosis cyst on my left ovary,

01:05and I might end up losing my left ovary.

01:07The news was a massive shock to Riri.

01:10I was only 20 at the time.

01:11And they get told you could lose your left ovary. I was a bit panicked.

01:14I was like, well, what does that mean sort of thing?

01:16But this was just the beginning of her long battle.

01:19See, I was still being sick. I got anti-sickness tablets,

01:22very strong painkillers just to try and manage the pain, but it nothing else.

01:25Surgery happened four or five months later.

01:27After the surgery, they confirmed that it was endo.

01:30It had all been taken out.

01:32But then the day after the surgery, I said to my partner,

01:35I've still got endo pain.

01:36And she was like, you can't have it. It'll just be recovering.

01:38Everyone said it'll be you're recovering.

01:40But I was like, no, this is endo pain.

01:42And her suspicion was correct.

01:44I had an ultrasound in August.

01:46I had stage four endo.

01:47I had cysts in the pelted Douglas.

01:49My rectum was connected to my uterus.

01:51My ovaries were stuck behind my uterus.

01:54I had fluid in my tubes.

01:55I had everything.

01:56And I will never forgive the guy for what she did.

01:59Because if he had just referred me to the specialist in the first place,

02:03I personally don't think it would have been as bad as it got.

02:06So less than six months after surgery,

02:09the adhesions and stuff are back and causing me unbearable pain.

02:12She has only one option left.

02:14So I've asked for a hysterectomy.

02:16I'm just hoping to say yes,

02:18because I can't do this pain much longer now.

02:21Like at this point, I'm willing just to give it all up and just say,

02:24because this isn't a life.

02:26I lie in bed all day, every day.

02:27Can't go out, can't do anything,

02:28because I'm missing that much pain all the time.

02:31Give me a hysterectomy and say how I go.

02:34But I feel, have a feeling they're going to turn around and say,

02:37we can't do a hysterectomy because of your age.

02:39Bearing in mind, there's other ways to have children if I wanted them.

02:44But we shall see what happens.

02:46This painful condition is finally getting the spotlight online.

02:50Some argue endometriosis is still being brushed off by doctors

02:54and feel not enough is being done to support those living with it.

02:58But what do you think?

02:59Is endometriosis finally being taken seriously?

03:02Or is there still a long way to go?

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