It took doctors a decade to diagnose me with disease that affects a tenth of women... I finally had an answer for my menstrual pain and irregular periods

It took doctors 10 years to take a young woman's complaints of excruciating abdominal cramps and irregular periods seriously and diagnose her with polycystic ovary syndrome.


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