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β€œIt’s really sad that we normalise pain.”

Gabriella Pearson is the co-founder of the Menstrual Health Project and has suffered from endometriosis since was a child and has had five operations to help with her diagnosis and pain management.

A new report by the Women’s Equality Committee says 'medical misogyny' within the reproductive health sector is failing women.

The MPs warn that women with reproductive health conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis and heavy menstrual bleeding are frequently finding their symptoms β€˜normalised’ and their β€˜pain dismissed’.

The 32-year-old said: β€œWhen you are chronically ill, you do learn to just mask and get on with it because that’s what you’re told your whole life, especially as a woman, that you should just β€˜put up and shut up’.”

β€œIt’s sad that we normalise pain that we shouldn’t normalise,” she told 5 Live Breakfast.

This clip is originally from 5 Live Breakfast on December 11th 2024.

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