'I was so bloated, I looked five months 妊娠している': 29-year-old （人命などを）奪う，主張するs medics 'gaslit' her into believing she had IBS for two years when the real 犯人 was agonising hormone 条件 endometriosis

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A woman who looked 'five months 妊娠している' has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd she was 'gaslit' by medics after they 解任するd her endometriosis as IBS for two years.?

Sarah Mahon, from London, had 苦しむd with 激しい periods as a teen.?

But in 2022 she began experiencing agonising cramps that left her nauseous and, on occasions, even unable to walk or bedbound for hours.?

Sudden 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s of bloating, 継続している up to three days, also saw the 29-year-old's stomach turn 'hard'.?

にもかかわらず visiting seven different doctors, five believed her symptoms were 'digestive-関係のある', she （人命などを）奪う，主張するd.??

Sarah Mahon, from London, had 苦しむd with 激しい periods as a teen. But in 2022 she began experiencing agonising cramps that left her nauseous and bedbound on occasions??

Sudden 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s of bloating saw the 29-year-old's stomach turn 'hard'. にもかかわらず visiting seven different doctors, five believed her symptoms were 'digestive-関係のある', she （人命などを）奪う，主張するd?

It was only when she went 私的な in February that she was 診断するd with the 条件. 解任するing her ordeal, Ms Mahon said: 'Four of the doctors told me I had IBS'?

It was only when she went 私的な in February that she was 診断するd with the 条件.?

解任するing her ordeal, Ms Mahon, who 作品 as an animator, said:?'Four of the doctors told me I had IBS and another said I had irritable bowel 病気 (IBD).

'I felt like they didn't believe me about my symptoms. I felt so 解任するd about the whole thing.?

'One of the worst parts of this whole experience was the gaslighting that I received from doctors.'

She 追加するd: 'I had asked [doctors] about endometriosis and told them my mother had it but they said it was 関係のある to the indigestion 問題／発行するs and just wouldn't 実験（する） me.

'I was told it would take a lot of 資源s for them to 実験（する） me for something I didn't know I had. I was 解任するd over and over about it.

'I didn't know what to do at this point. I was googling my symptoms and everything matched up with endometriosis.

'Some mornings I couldn't move my 武器 and 脚s because I was so tired ― the 疲労，（軍の）雑役 was so bad.?

'And にわか雨ing was so hard. Washing my hair was such an 成果／努力, I'd be exhausted after and have to have a nap after.'

Ms Mahon also stopped having sex with her boyfriend 'because it wasn't 価値（がある） the 苦痛', she said.

Her 'insane' bloating, which could be 誘発する／引き起こすd by something as small as a cup of coffee, 軍隊d her to wear baggy 着せる／賦与するs.?

'My friends all said I looked 十分な-on 妊娠している. It was all inflammation,' she 追加するd.?

Ms Mahon stopped having sex with her boyfriend 'because it wasn't 価値（がある） the 苦痛.' Her 'insane' bloating 軍隊d her to wear baggy 着せる／賦与するs

Ms Mahon is 勧めるing others to 需要・要求する answers from their doctors and 'not give up' on getting a diagnosis. She said: 'I'm really lucky I caught 地雷 before it 原因（となる）d any more 損失'?

Endometriosis occurs when 独房s 類似の to the ones in the lining of the womb are 設立する outside the uterus.?

Each month these 独房s 反応する in the same way to those in the womb, building up and then breaking 負かす／撃墜する and bleeding.?

Unlike the womb 独房s that leave the 団体／死体 as a period, they have no way to escape.?

Symptoms 含む 苦痛 in the pelvis and abdomen, 極端に painful periods, 苦痛 during sex, trouble conceiving, with the 抱擁する 衝撃 on 苦しんでいる人s also 潜在的に 主要な to 不景気.

There is 現在／一般に no cure for endometriosis and 治療 is designed to manage the symptoms, often by keyhole 外科 to 除去する or destroy 超過 tissue.?

These 手続きs may give months or years of 苦痛 救済, but the problem often recurs.?

In the most 厳しい 事例／患者s, a 十分な hysterectomy may be recommended, but even that may not fully 解決する the 条件.?

It is believed to 影響する／感情 around 1.5million women in the UK and 6.5million in the US.?

But にもかかわらず 存在 so ありふれた, many women struggle to have their 苦痛 and symptoms taken 本気で and can be 軍隊d to wait １０年間s for a diagnosis.?

IBS can 原因（となる） 類似の symptoms, with 苦しんでいる人s?often struggling to find 効果的な 治療 for the 苦痛, cramps, bloating and diarrhoea, leaving many housebound and in 苦痛.?

There's no cure, but diet changes and 薬／医学s can often help 支配（する）／統制する the symptoms.?

Exasperated by her repeat diagnosis, earlier this year Ms Mahon 調書をとる／予約するd a 私的な 協議 at a clinic in London.?

ざっと目を通すs later 確認するd she was 苦しむing with the 条件 and in April she underwent a £7,500 操作／手術 to 除去する the 超過 tissue in her pelvic 塀で囲む and between the uterus and rectum.?

She said:?'The 地位，任命する-外科 苦痛 was nothing compared to how it's been. The 苦痛 has gone 完全に. I have so much more energy now. I feel like a new person.

'I was told my 団体／死体 was 絶えず trying to 修理 itself and was 絶えず inflamed. My doctor told me I did the 外科 just in time before it developed その上の.

'The 外科 went really 井戸／弁護士席 and the doctor told me my ovaries weren't 影響する／感情d and I should be okay when it comes to trying for a baby. I'm trying to stay 肯定的な about the 未来.

'It's a cruel irony that the 条件 can give you a bump and 原因（となる） fertility 問題／発行するs.'

Now Ms Mahon is 勧めるing others to 需要・要求する answers from their doctors and 'not give up' on getting a diagnosis.

She said: 'I say to other people do not give up. I'm really lucky I caught 地雷 before it 原因（となる）d any more 損失.

'If you can, try and see a specialist straight away and 接触する people in 類似の positions.'

It comes as a damning 報告（する）／憶測 in March also 明らかにする／漏らすd?women must wait almost a year longer to be given an endometriosis diagnosis than before the pandemic.

It now takes an 普通の／平均（する） of eight years and ten months for doctors to identify the painful 病気, an 増加する of ten months since 2020.?

Most women made at least one visit to A&E and almost half needed ten or more GP 任命s before 存在 診断するd.