Endometriosis: Young woman 'pleading' for hysterectomy
A 23-year-old woman who begged doctors to remove her womb to relieve chronic pain says the surgery is being refused due to her age and childless status.
Hannah Lockhart has endometriosis, a condition that can cause debilitating pain, heavy periods and infertility.
Although she has always wanted her own children, Hannah says her daily pain is now so severe she wants a hysterectomy.
"It's heartbreaking that just because I'm so young I have to keep suffering," she told the BBC's Evening Extra.
Ms Lockhart, from Bangor in County Down, has been in hospital seven times in the past year because of crippling pain from endometriosis.
"Every single day I'm taking morphine, I'm taking different tablets for nerves to try and stop the pain and nothing works," she said.
Source: BBC News, 14 April 2021