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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

‘It makes you feel helpless’: patients and doctors cast doubt on standard treatment for endometriosis

Natalie Greenwood in her home in West Yorkshire
Natalie Greenwood says the benefits of surgery for endometriosis are brief. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

“It’s really frustrating to be in this cycle of continuous surgery. It makes you feel helpless,” says Natalie Greenwood, of a condition that affects her so badly she is “non-functioning most of the time because of the constant fatigue”.

Greenwood, 36, needs to have an operation every few years to limit the impact of the endometriosis that gives her chronic pelvic pain, as well as extreme tiredness and brain fog.

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