"Doctors said I was too young to have endometriosis - I had to take morphine to cope."
Grace says she felt doctors were dismissive of her pain and some told her she "was being dramatic" .
She was given multiple possible reasons for her symptoms: irritable bowel syndrome, a cyst, anxiety and "just a bad period".
Endometriosis is an incurable condition causing lesions and scarring on internal organs and around the body. Grace says her requests for further investigation were ignored.
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