Robertson went to her doctor, went to different doctors, many times. “I was always asking for help,” she says. “I’d say, I want to know why my periods are so bad. I’d want to know what was wrong with me, but I’d just be told: ‘Periods can be like this.’ It made me feel I was wasting their time.” She was about 30 when her best friend told her: “I’ve found the password! I know how to get proper treatment. Tell your doctor that you’re trying for a baby.”
So Robertson did. “The doctor literally said: ‘Lets get to the bottom of this, then,’” says Robertson. “No one wanted to get to the bottom of why, every month, I was debilitated and in pain. Now that I wanted a baby, I was given an internal scan. I got to see a gynaecologist. All these things finally happened.” As a result, Robertson was diagnosed with adenomyosis – a condition that might affect as many as one in 10 women.
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