To find it totally shocking that a girl of 15 wants a hysterectomy?

[agabimou]

Because of the horrendous way that female hormonal issues are treated. I don't doubt that this poor girl is suffering but honestly is the best medical science can come up with is 'the pill' or 'hysterectomy' ??

Someone needs to start a research charity for female hormone/gynaecology issues like cancer research.

'Why my daughter wants a hysterectomy at 15' www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44439735

There definitely needs to be more education amongst drs and support for women.

I was going to type out my story but it's long winded. But it took 12 years to get a diagnosis of endometriosis and my Dr still won't confirm a diagnosis of PMDD as it is easier just to blame everything on endo. I normally take the pill back to back to stop my periods which also helps my moods. Otherwise the week before my period I get suicidal to the point that sometimes I can't walk across a bridge alone as I'm scared the urge to jump will be just too much. It is literally all consuming, and when Drs literally don't give a shit and just expect you to suck it up, it's soul destroying

So I've been doing research and am genuinely thinking of starting something.

I will update with any progress - it seems complicated to do, but badly needed!

Oh how weird somehow it's connected with my old name.

All this to say- I work in sexual and reproductive health and realise only just now how grossly lacking this aspect of education is.

I will explore how to include in our education. And training.

Sources of funding too- maybe mooncup or the tampon tax...

I'm another one wanting to help out

If anyone suffering is on Facebook, this group is lovely. They have documents with NICE guidelines about treatment on. You can print them off and take them to the GP to help get a gynae referral or treatments if you feel this will help you.

www.facebook.com/groups/ukpmddsupport/

Keep fighting. Once you find someone in the NHS who will listen and understand, you'll get the help you need.

When I read the headline a few days ago my first instinct was of course it’s not ok to remove her womb at 15. Then I read the story and thought given her suffering every month it would be inhuman not to let her have the option. More research urgently needs to be done because it’s such an extreme solution but until then we should not be forcing women to keep uteruses that are making them so ill.

My fertility consultant literally wrote the book on endometriosis (he authored one of the main textbooks about endometriosis) and used to run a specialist endometriosis and fibroids clinic at a major London teaching hospital. He says treatment of women's health issues by GPs can be woeful - he is appalled by how many women he sees with incredibly painful or heavy periods who were dismissed by their GPs, or simply told to go on the pill, who he finds have severe undiagnosed and untreated endometriosis or fibroids

He says particularly with endo that it starts somewhere - and that if it was diagnosed and treated earlier, fewer women would suffer so severely, and the impact on women's fertility would be less the earlier it was diagnosed before progressing. But that this didn't happen because women were so frequently fobbed off my GPs and told that heavy, painful periods are normal.

He said it's criminal that there's so little research done into fibroids - that women are walking around with tumours in their womb and we still don't really know what causes them. He said if it was a male issue that affected so many people, so severely, that there would be uproar.

I would suggest she consider NaPro Technology. They've had a lot of success in treating female hormonal issues.

As I said, more than happy to be involved and am involved in a piece of research at the moment that may be really helpful in terms of raising the profile of the issues!

@agabimou please keep us posted, I would love to help in any way I could x