‘Hell-on-earth excruciating pain,” is how Ruhi Singh* describes her experience of endometriosis. Yet it took nearly 20 doctors more than 10 years for her to get a diagnosis. “I got an ultrasound every month where they told me it was all clear and I should ‘do yoga’ or ‘get pregnant’,” says Singh. “I have a bone to pick with all of those doctors.”
Her experience is not unusual. Globally, it takes seven years on average to get a diagnosis, even though endometriosis is as common as diabetes, affecting one in 10 women.
