Why this book exists
A focused place to understand what is happening
Angharad is thirty-one and was diagnosed with endometriosis eight months ago. She has had the pain since she was thirteen. That is eighteen years, during which she was told by her mother that periods are like that, by a school nurse that she should take paracetamol earlier, by three separate general practitioners that painful periods are common, by one of them that she might be a bit anxious, and by a boyfriend that she was using it as an excuse. In those eighteen years she missed roughly one week of every month. She left a degree course. She has vomited from pain in a supermarket car park. And the thing she says most often, now that she has a diagnosis, is not that she is angry about the pain. It is that she spent eighteen years thinking there was.
The writing is designed to reduce shame, bring the underlying pattern into view and give you practical ways to respond without pretending that every life follows the same formula.
