Funding to curb long wait for women’s disease diagnosis [Video]

Seven years and 11 general practitioners – that’s how long it took Jessica Taylor to receive an endometriosis diagnosis.

From the age of 14, Ms Taylor had excruciating periods to the extent she would faint at school and wake up in an ambulance on the way to hospital.

She saw 11 general practitioners over the years who would say the pain was normal and it was all in her head.

The pain and symptoms were so severe that Ms Taylor was unable to study during high school and prevented her from finishing university.

For years, no one could explain what was going on.

“It reaffirmed ‘maybe this is all in my head, maybe I’m not coping with life, maybe there’s something wrong with me’, I genuinely thought that,” Ms Taylor told AAP.

A GP suggested she should have her ovaries removed or try different contraceptive pills, which made her “loopy”.

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