Experts say chronic pelvic pain is often underdiagnosed and undertreated with the average diagnosis time of endometriosis being 6.6 years worldwide.
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00:00Pelvic pain is complex and it involves a lot of different organs.
00:10When pain's affecting someone's function on a day-to-day basis where they can't go to
00:15work, they can't school, they can't parent their family as well as they can, that's not
00:21normal.
00:26Sometimes I experience burning and searing pain.
00:30Sometimes I experience deep aching.
00:32Sometimes I have muscle spasms and a kind of bruising sensation.
00:46I don't want them to have to spend 25 years wondering why they're in pain and why no one
00:52can help them.
00:53Now hopefully they won't have to.
01:04These patients need a team, but the GP is the perfect person to direct that team and
01:09direct that care, follow the patient up well.