Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little were shocked when a listener shared advice a doctor gave her when she was just 11 years old.
The now 21-year-old woman known as Indy explained to the hosts of Hit Network's Drive show that she was in severe pain when she first got her period.
She visited a doctor with her mother and was told that the only way to relieve the pain was to have a baby.
“It’s shocking for everyone to hear this,” said a stunned Tommy.
Indy said she suffered from pain for another five years until she found a doctor who ran several tests and later confirmed she had endometriosis.
Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little were shocked when a listener shared advice a doctor gave her when she was 11 years old
“I had a twisted fallopian tube and it had fallen off. “I had scars all over the tissue, so they think maybe it was a cyst that caused it,” she explained.
“Now I've lost that ovary, so I'm left with just one. “I also had stage four endometriosis removed.”
Indy revealed that she will also start freezing her eggs as it will be more difficult for her to start a family in the future.
She told the hosts that 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 21-year-old woman named Indy told the hosts of Hit Network's Drive show that she was in severe pain when she first got her period. She visited a doctor with her mother and was told that the only way to relieve 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.
Symptoms are varied: pain can affect areas 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.