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Alahna Kindred & Kate Lally

Woman dismissed by GP after periods stopped and told 'wait a year'

A young woman said she was told to wait a year before doctors would investigate why she wasn't ovulating.

Ellie and her husband dreamed of starting a family in early 2019, but they struggled to be taken seriously. The primary school teacher said she came off her birth control pill, but was not getting a period.

The 28-year-old, from Leicestershire, told the Mirror : "I came off the contraceptive pill and I assumed that I might get pregnant in the following month. I assumed I would get pregnant within six months, I had that in my head.

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