{"id":285238,"date":"2026-02-07T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285238\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:22:09","slug":"it-feels-like-i-am-being-stabbed-galway-mum-on-life-with-adenomyosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285238\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It feels like I am being stabbed\u2019 \u2013 Galway mum on life with adenomyosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Aoibheann Carroll lived with adenomyosis from childhood, enduring debilitating pain, bursting cysts and daily bleeding, until surgery turned her life around. Now she\u2019s calling for better awareness and diagnosis.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aoibheann Caroll lived with adenomyosis since she was 11\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f91fdf45-6761-40e9-bc3e-b945de7be83f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aoibheann Caroll lived with adenomyosis since she was 11<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Galway woman has described how her debilitating health condition left her unable to live a normal life \u2013 and how more people need to speak out about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A few years ago, Aoibheann Carroll was out on a walk in Kinvara when she suddenly felt a shooting pain in her abdomen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoibheann Carroll lived with adenomyosis from childhood, enduring debilitating pain, bursting cysts and daily bleeding, until surgery turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,13131],"class_list":["post-285238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jessica-mercer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}