'When you google endometriosis you find so many horror stories. But in real life it actually is a horror story.'
Since she was a teenager, Lorna McBride has been to see her doctor countless times for crippling pain during her period. Her GP told her it was perfectly normal to pass out and vomit.
The blackouts returned and her symptoms became so bad, her flatmate who she was living at the time, told her "you know this isn't normal don't you?" But Lorna didn't know any different. A laparoscopy is a type of surgical procedure that allows a surgeon to access the inside of the abdomen and pelvis without having to make large incisions in the skin. It's often referred to as keyhole surgery.
"Nobody told me anything about the aftercare following the procedure. I was just given a pair of thrombosis socks," she said. "They didn't explain to me what incisions they were going to make on my body, I only found out when I looked and saw the scars for myself. On one occasion, the pain was so bad from the condition, she passed out at work and had to be taken to A&E by a colleague. She waited there hours only to be sent home without any treatment or aftercare.
"The pain is off the chart," she said. "It can be so severe you can't believe you're not being hospitalised. One night I woke up in so much pain I knew I was going to black out. Despite affecting around 1.5 million women in the UK, it takes an agonising eight years for the average sufferer of endometriosis to receive a formal diagnosis.
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