by Phoebe Snedker | Mar 24, 2025 2:04PM | Long Reads
A Sheffield woman who is battling a debilitating condition which leaves her struggling to walk and in constant pain has said securing financial security through the government targeted PIP process was one of the hardest battles of her life. It took Rachel Wood,...
by Chloe Boden | Nov 24, 2023 4:53PM | Long Reads
Endometriosis UK has launched a campaign to put an end to the ‘thoughtless’ language used when talking about the debilitating condition. The word ‘benign’ is frequently used when describing any gynaecological issue that is not cancer, but endometriosis...
by Rachel Flynn | Mar 20, 2023 3:16PM | Long Reads, Top Story
Despite one in ten women living with the condition, endometriosis is under-researched and frequently misdiagnosed, say those who are currently suffering from it. Christina Paraug’s journey with endometriosis began when she was just eight years old....
by Emily Staniforth | Mar 15, 2021 4:16PM | Long Reads
“I felt glad and validated at first, as I knew I wasn’t making it up! But then I felt quite overwhelmed as I didn’t even know where to start and when I googled all I saw was terrible journeys for fertility and that it was incurable. I was 23 when I was diagnosed...