‘Doctors fobbed me off for 17 years, nearly costing me my chance to have a baby’

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It took Bridie Howard 17 years of crippling period pain and a year of trying unsuccessfully for a baby to get her GP to take her symptoms seriously. Since the age of 12, when her periods started, Howard had been told by various GPs that the intense monthly pain was something she simply had to endure; the painful price of being a woman.