'I passed out from crippling pain every month for 10 years because of endometriosis – but doctors told me to stop time wasting'
According to Endometriosis UK, it takes over seven years on average for women to finally receive a diagnosis.Sadly, Hayley’s is a story which rings true to millions of other sufferers in the UK., it takes an average of seven and a half years for endometriosis sufferers to be diagnosed – by which point, the chronic condition has wreaked irreversible damage on the sufferers’ bodies.
“It just really affected every aspect of my life,” she said. “At the age of 13, who wants to tell their friends, oh I can't come and hang out with you because I'm on my period? I was always having to cancel last minute.”Credit: iamhayleyray/Instagram "Friends at college would tell me to 'stop being so dramatic' after I’d throw up in the toilets from the pain.After almost 10 years of living with undiagnosed endometriosis and PCOS, Hayley’s condition deteriorated on her way to her job at a corporate property firm.
During her hospital stay, Hayley was told she had a ruptured cyst - a symptom of her undiagonsed PCOS - but was discharged early. Although Hayley was originally told she had a cyst on her ovary which was 1cm by 1cm, laparoscopic surgery revealed it to be 10 TIMES the size. Friends would tell me to 'stop being so dramatic' after I’d throw up from the pain. They didn't get it.After having time off from the office, Hayley was called into an HR meeting where she was told to "man up" because she "didn't even look sick".
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