Endometriosis is like someone taking a drill to your organs. The pain resembles a tsunami in every one of your cells – or the movement of tectonic plates inside your body. Years spent contending with the condition is “not life”. Endometriosis may not literally kill you, but suffering from it can feel like a living death.
In Emma Barnett: Fighting Endometriosis, the Today presenter provides all these unflinching insights and many more into the condition, which involves cells resembling those that line the uterus growing elsewhere in the body. There is no cure, the only available treatment is hormones (predominantly the contraceptive pill), to mask symptoms, or surgery – including a total hysterectomy, although that won’t necessarily provide relief on a permanent basis. Endometriosis is extremely painful and little understood. It’s also incredibly common: one in 10 women of reproductive age in the UK have it.
