Keeled over in the London Underground on her way to work, Morag Smith was asked by a stranger if she was okay. The 27-year-old had just moved to the capital with a new job working for a charity and had been menstrually bleeding every day for weeks - which ended up being for 11 months straight - and was in extreme pain.
"I remember being like 'No' and this is awful and I don't know what I'm doing to myself. This cannot be the rest of my life," Morag remembers. She'd dealt with heavy periods as soon as she started them at 16, which saw her miss school and vomit up to four times a day over the excruciating cramps.
Morag, originally from Scotland, bled for 10-14 days each month and would often leak through her clothes up until she had the hormonal coil fitted in a bid to stop them - which then caused it to turn into one year-long period. She describes how it was like having to care for a baby; not being able to leave the house without her supplies.
