Boomer GP Insists Endometriosis Is Very Rare And Maybe It's Your Diet That Doesn't Agree With You Sweetheart

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact

The search to identify the source of a local woman's very real and debilitating pelvic pain continues this week, after yet another post-war doctor has decided she's been spending too much time on the internet.

28-year-old Kylie Nader has been feeling this cruel agony since her teenage years, but initially put it down to the general suffering of womanhood.

However, after conversations with other women in twenties, she's starting to realise that maybe it isn't normal to need heat packs and pain medication to go to sleep.

At certain points, Kylie says she's even gone as far as exploring the possibilities of phantom pregnancies, abdominal cancers or spinal issues.

It was eventually an overpriced physio that suggested maybe the lining of her uterus is now growing elsewhere as misplaced tissue that responds to hormonal cycles, causing inflammation, pain, and scarring on her pelvic organs.

As has been the case countless times since she first got her own medicare card, Kylie found herself back at square one, desperately trying to find an answer to this satanic force deep within her loins.

Unfortunately, that means another conversation with another boomer GP who takes this women's health stuff as seriously as astrological readings.

After being accused several times of maybe exaggerating, Kylie is told that self-diagnosing isn't very helpful for issues like this - because it could really be anything. And endometriosis isn't really as common as you'd think it is listening to all of those podcasts and YouTube videos.

But the good news is, it looks like it could be a fairly standard microbiome issue.

"Do you drink much milk?" asks the GP, Dr Howard Costello.

"What about night shades? How does your body respond to the acid?"

Kylie sighs as sharp pains permeate down her legs and up her back.

"Yeah, not sure" she says.

"I don't eat much at all when I'm feeling like this"

The GP chuckles.

"Well that's your first problem!"