"Robertson went to her doctor, went to different doctors, many times. 'I was always asking for help,' she says. 'I’d say, I want to know why my periods are so bad. I’d want to know what was wrong with me, but I’d just be told: ‘Periods can be like this.’ It made me feel I was wasting their time.' She was about 30 when her best friend told her: 'I’ve found the password! I know how to get proper treatment. Tell your doctor that you’re trying for a baby.'”
So Robertson did. 'The doctor literally said: ‘Lets get to the bottom of this, then,’” says Robertson. 'No one wanted to get to the bottom of why, every month, I was debilitated and in pain. Now that I wanted a baby, I was given an internal scan. I got to see a gynaecologist. All these things finally happened.' As a result, Robertson was diagnosed with adenomyosis – a condition that might affect as many as one in 10 women. (Last year, BBC presenter Naga Munchetty described its devastating impact on her life, saying she’d been 'failed and gaslit' by the NHS.)"
~ Anna Moore
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