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 Hit Network’s drive show hosts she had severe pain when she started her period for the first time.
She visited a doctor with her mother and was told the only way to ‘fix the pain was to have a baby’.
‘It’s shocking for everyone to hear that,’ a stunned Tommy said.
Indy said she suffered from pain for another five years until she found a doctor who completed several tests and later confirmed she had endometriosis.
Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little were left 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 scars tissue everything so they think it was maybe a cyst that had caused it,’ she explained.
‘Now I have lost that ovary so I’m left with one. I’ve also had stage four endometriosis removed.’
Indy revealed she is also going to start the process of freezing her eggs as it will be more difficult for her to start a family in the future.
She told the hosts several doctors ignored the pain she was suffering and ‘told me it was all in my head.’
Carrie admitted: ‘It makes me so angry.’
The woman named Indy, 21, told Hit Network’s drive show hosts she had severe pain when she started her period for the first time. She visited a doctor with her mother and was told the only way to ‘fix 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 are 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 sexual intercourse, abnormal menstruation, nausea, bloating, and pain with bowel movements.