A woman had an "underlying feeling" something was wrong when she didn't get her period after coming off the contraceptive pill.
After working through the Covid-19 pandemic, GP Charlotte Badescu and her hospital doctor partner, John, got married in July 2021 and decided to start a family. Charlotte, from Mossley Hill, came off the contraceptive pill for the first time in 16 years, but three months later, there was no sign of a period and her pregnancy tests were coming back negative.
The 32-year-old told the ECHO: "Even as a GP, I was extremely confused and obviously anxious about what was going on. I knew it can be normal not to have periods for up to a few months after stopping the pill, so I was trying to reassure myself that I'm hopefully just in that group of women where it's normal, but I had this underlying feeling of, 'What if there's something going on?'"
