Ignored I by doctors

LIKE student Lucy Grainger, my daughter had to fight for years for a diagnosis for her crippling abdominal pain (Good Health).

From the age of 13, she had episodes of o excruciating pain, but no tests were w undertaken to find the reason.

An out-of-hours doctor was called one night and when he phoned to arrange her admission to hospital, he was asked: ‘Could it be that she doesn’t want to go to school?’

In her early 20s, she was asked to fill f in a form by a doctor to see if she was depressed. Another advised her that every time she was in pain, she should s tell herself she wasn’t. She was fobbed off and made to feel she was exaggerating her pain.

After she collapsed and was rushed to t hospital, the gynaecological condition c endometriosis was finally diagnosed. She needed three operations because her womb and bowel were fused together. I would like to wish Lucy all the very best for the future. My daughter was told it would be difficult to conceive, but she has had two children.

Name supplied, Coggeshall, Essex.