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"l was an endometriosis sufferer myself. Increasingly
severe period pain and then mid cycle pain, and finally
continuous discomfort and pain bedevilled most of my
30s. No-one diagnosed what was wrong with me in over
six years of attempts. I was variously told I had PID,
egg cysts, blocked fallopian tubes and even, by one
consultant, that I was pregnant (when I knew that was
the last thing I could be). It was finally an article
in Cosmopolitan combined with a more sympathetic
female GP that put me on the right track so that, in
my late 30s just less than 9 months married, I ended
up having what was euphomistically termed 'a total abdominal
clearance' ie. a full hysterectomy."
Since then Diana feels she has been lucky. She has enjoyed good health and had a rewarding and absorbing career, not to mention an incredibly supportive husband. Not long after her operation she started running, and this has become slightly more serious in recent years, with her entering her first 10K race in 2003.
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