After repeatedly visiting her GP Rachel said she felt she was going around in circles, to the point she was convinced she was imagining her own pain.<\/p>\n
“I just felt like I wasn’t being listened to. I was being fobbed off. I wanted to be heard and I didn’t feel like I was getting that at all. I’m angry about it,” she said.<\/p>\n
Rachel was eventually referred to a gynecologist but was told there was a wait of nearly a year. <\/p>\n
She said she felt she had no option but to undergo a hysterectomy privately.<\/p>\n
Rachel’s GP practice has apologized for the difficulties she experienced and said her feedback will be investigated thoroughly.<\/p>\n
An NHS spokesperson said: “Too often we hear of women whose health concerns have been dismissed, and we are actively addressing this through education, training and improving services for women.<\/p>\n
“NHS staff should support women experiencing symptoms of adenomyosis and we strongly encourage any woman concerned to speak to their GP.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After repeatedly visiting her GP Rachel said she felt she was going around in circles, to the point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}