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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Arielle Domb

Years of pain and gaslighting: Why does it take so long to get an endometriosis diagnosis?

When Hannah Alderson was in her late twenties, she noticed a strange “niggling” pain in her stomach — a “throbbing, scratching” sort of feeling. She wondered whether it had something to do with the coil, “scraping my insides”.

Then the pain got worse. “It felt like someone was stabbing me,” she said.

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