Naga Munchetty reveals ‘constant pain’ from womb situation adenomyosis
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BC presenter Naga Munchetty mentioned she has a debilitating womb situation that has left her screaming in ache.
The broadcaster, 48, mentioned she has adenomyosis, a situation that causes the liner of the womb to bury into the muscular wall of the womb.
Speaking on her BBC Radio 5 Live present, she mentioned: “Right now, as I sit here talking to you, I am in pain, constant, nagging pain in my uterus, around my pelvis.
“Sometimes it runs down my thighs and I will have some level of pain for the entire show and for the rest of the day until I go to sleep.
“Every so often the pain changes. It becomes a stabbing pain, a pain that takes my breath away and I can do nothing but sit with it for a minute or curl up to cope.”
The ache was so unhealthy over the weekend, she was screaming and her husband known as an ambulance, Munchetty mentioned.
She mentioned: “On Saturday night I came home from the theatre and my adenomyosis flared up.
“I was in so much pain I could barely walk from the car to my front door. It was only with my husband’s help that I made it upstairs.
“The pain was so terrible I couldn’t move, turn over, sit up. I screamed non-stop for 45 minutes.
“I finally got to sleep and in the middle of the night the pain returned and it was worse.
“My husband called an ambulance.
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“By the time they called back the pain had subsided a little but that pain, my goodness, I couldn’t move.”
Munchetty mentioned she was advised she has the situation eight months in the past – although her uterus would have to be eliminated and examined to get that confirmed.
The presenter, who’s resisting a hysterectomy, mentioned the prognosis got here “after decades of painful, heavy periods, periods that made me pass out, sweat, cry, moan, groan, curled up in a tight ball, having to sleep on a towel”.
Munchetty mentioned she was doubled over in ache and vomiting when she began her interval at 16 – after which had a 10-day interval each three weeks, passing out and being sick every time and feeling like she had been “stabbed in the abdomen”.
She mentioned: “I felt weak but also angry. Every time I told a doctor about it I was told I was just unlucky.”
She mentioned she was by no means supplied a scan or ultrasound or any follow-up appointments till she bled for 30 days straight a number of months in the past and had a scan, which revealed adenomyosis.
Munchetty’s 5 Live present featured different ladies residing with the situation, together with one mom who mentioned her daughter not asks to play along with her as a result of she is aware of she will be unable to due to her ache.