Council To Support Workers With Endometriosis

A assembly has unanimously voted to go nan first endometriosis friends section authority successful nan northbound of England.

Deputy politician of Redcar Ceri Cawley was diagnosed pinch nan information successful her early 20s and has struggled pinch "agonising pain" for years.

As good arsenic Redcar and Cleveland Council, Southwark and Stoke-on-Trent City councils, person joined nan nationalist scheme, tally by kindness Endometriosis UK, to thief unit amended negociate nan information alongside work.

The 43-year-old said it would beryllium "immense" to get much businesses to subordinate nan programme and make judge "nobody is struggling alone".

The lawman politician said: "As a female who has been surviving pinch this information for a agelong clip I cognize excessively good nan struggles that galore different women are faced with.

"There are 1 successful 10 women who are suffering and struggling to beryllium listened excessively aliases beryllium heard and it is taking 8 to 10 years for a diagnosis."

Cawley described really 1 time she was lying successful her bath successful "absolute agony" and decided to look for support groups successful nan area and recovered Endometriosis UK.

She said earlier she was diagnosed she was ever going to nan doctors successful symptom and not knowing what was wrong.

"I was told it was IBS aliases conscionable a dense period, I was told each sorts of reasons why I was successful this pain," she said.

"It is acold much than that, it is being talked astir much and it needs much awareness."

Endometriosis, occurs erstwhile cells, akin to nan lining of a woman's womb, turn elsewhere successful nan assemblage and tin lead to terrible symptom and fertility problems.

Faye Farthing, caput of campaigning astatine Endometriosis UK, said she looked guardant to moving pinch Redcar and Cleveland Council helping to tackle nan "stigma" of nan condition.

"We are very pleased to cognize that nan assembly intends to amended different employers locally astir nan endometriosis friends employer scheme, and to activity much broadly to amended support for those impacted by endometriosis."