Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little were shocked after a listener shared the advice a doctor gave her when she was just 11 years old.
The woman named Indy, now 21, explained to the hosts of the Hit Network show that she was in severe pain when she got her period for the first time.
She visited a doctor with her mother and was told that the only way to “get rid of the pain was to have a baby.”
“It’s shocking for everyone to hear that,” said a stunned Tommy.
Indy said she suffered from pain for another five years until she found a doctor who performed several tests and later confirmed she had endometriosis.
Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little were shocked after a listener shared the advice a doctor gave her when she was 11 years old
‘I had a twisted fallopian tube and it had fallen. I had scar tissue all over, so they think it might have been a cyst that caused it,” she explained.
‘Now I’ve lost that ovary, so I still have one. I also had stage four endometriosis removed.”
Indy revealed that she is also going to start freezing her eggs as it will be harder for her to start a family in the future.
She told the hosts that several doctors ignored the pain she was suffering and “told them it was all in my head.”
Carrie admitted, “It makes me so angry.”
The woman named Indy, 21, told Hit Network presenters that she was in severe pain when she got her period for the first time. She visited a doctor with her mother and was told the only way to ‘get rid of the pain was to have a baby’
Endometriosis is an often painful condition in which the tissue that lines the uterus also grows outside the uterus.
There is a wide variety of symptoms: pain can affect areas ranging from the abdomen and lower back to the pelvis and vagina.
Other symptoms include painful intercourse, abnormal menstruation, nausea, bloating and pain during bowel movements.