Champion swimmer Cate Campbell has spent her career trying to manage troublesome periods. But the elite athlete felt she had no-one to turn to for advice — and it came at a significant cost.
On average, the disease takes 7–10 years to be diagnosed from the time symptoms start."Now I just push for everyone to go get some form of check. You can get scanned, you can get surgeries, you can get different pills that can help manage pain.While Dedekind has found a supportive doctor who she credits with helping her, she still experiences serious pain and consistent bleeding.
"It's really hard to have the support that we need when there's not all that much knowledge about it." "There'll be a lot of athletes out there that are suffering in silence and just thinking that it's okay to suck it up and battle through period pain," Dr Ernst said.Eliminating the tabooCampbell has started to see improvements in awareness.
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