Three women have shared their experience of living with crippling pain due to endometriosis. March marks Endometriosis Awareness Month, which takes place all over the world and aims to increase awareness and highlight the symptoms of this debilitating condition.
It is estimated that one in 10 women in the UK suffer from endometriosis and there is currently no cure for it. Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the lining of the womb starts to grow in other places such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes.
Each month these cells react in the same way to those in the womb, building up and then breaking down and bleeding. Unlike the cells in the womb that leave the body as a period however, this blood has no way of escaping, and as a result causes chronic and sometimes debilitating pain as well as affecting fertility and other parts of the body such as the bowel or bladder.
