Painful periods: Living with Endometriosis - BBC London
Endometriosis affects one in 10 women and can cause debilitating pain, extremely heavy periods and sometimes infertility.
On average, it takes seven and a half years to diagnose in the UK. Why? According to one of the UK's leading specialists, one reason is the "gender pain gap", wherein women in pain aren't taken as seriously as men.
Video by Anita Jones and Suhail Patel.
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