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Sophie Richards says she felt ignored by doctors for years, despite being “bed-bound” for two weeks of every month - until she was diagnosed with endometriosis and changed her diet.

The women's health practitioner and host of 'The Finally Found Podcast' says she felt like she was “screaming at doctors” that something was seriously wrong, but she was continuously told it was “just IBS or just painful periods - it's ‘part of being a woman”.

She'd experience “agonising pain”, brain fog, nausea, fatigue and extremely heavy, 10-day long periods, until she was diagnosed at 21.

Now 29, Richards says it wasn’t that doctors didn’t want to help, they just didn’t have answers.

Endometriosis UK estimates that 10% of women suffer from the chronic condition - where tissues similar to the uterine lining grow outside the uterus — but it takes approximately eight years on average from the first GP visit to get a diagnosis.