Women's health is a matter that has traditionally been overlooked and under prioritised in healthcare - something that Jessica Rickets, from Barry, knows better than most. She has been waiting for a hysterectomy since 2019. However, even reaching the point of discovering a hysterectomy was needed took over 10 years for Jessica, who is now 35, as she battled with GPs and consultants about her health.
Jessica first began suffering with her health over 10 years ago, when she experienced serious pain in her lower body. In what turned out to be a large fibroid, a noncancerous tumour, growing inside her uterus, it took Jessica years to have this properly diagnosed. She said: “I’d been suffering for a couple of years before I got past the GP to get referred for a scan, I had a number of visits to the GP, back and forth.”
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