‘Feels like barbed wire’. Endometriosis: the condition with no cure
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Up to 30% of women who have surgery for endometriosis experience a recurrence within five years, according to the National Institutes of Health. There is still no cure for the condition.
On the Sky News Daily, host Sally Lockwood is joined by Charline Bou Mansour, a Sky News reporter who has endometriosis, and Andrew Horne, Professor of Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences at Edinburgh University, to explore the search for a way to relieve, or even cure, endometriosis.
Producers: Emma Rae Woodhouse, Alex Edden and Soila Apparicio
Promotions Producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:03.5 | Imagine living with a condition that causes you so much pain. |
| 1:07.0 | You're sometimes admitted to hospital two to three times a week. |
| 1:11.1 | They attempted to perform a keyhole surgery, but I don't think they could get through. |
| 1:15.8 | So that quickly changed to an open surgery. |
| 1:18.9 | So they kind of cut me from hip to hip. |
| 1:21.1 | That was the case for Carla Cressy, who spent 11 years with excruciating pain, |
| 1:26.9 | bleeding, throwing up and passing out. |
| 1:30.3 | It was during one of her many surgical operations that they eventually discovered what was wrong. |
| 1:36.3 | Once they opened me up, they found that I had stage for endometriosis, frozen pelvis disease, |
| 1:41.4 | and they said that it looked like someone had poured cement into my pelvis. |
| 1:46.1 | Everything was just stuck together by so much scar tissue and blood. They drained, I think, |
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