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‘Hell on earth’: India’s taboos around women’s pain leave endometriosis sufferers in agony
Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer
‘Hell-on-earth excruciating pain,” is how Ruhi Singh* describes her experience of endometriosis. Yet it took nearly 20 doctors more than 10 years for her to get a diagnosis. “I got an ultrasound every month where they told me it was all clear and I should ‘do yoga’ or ‘get pregnant’,” says Singh. “I have a bone to pick with all of those doctors.”
Her experience is not unusual. Globally, it takes seven years on average to get a diagnosis, even though endometriosis is as common as diabetes, affecting one in 10 women.
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