“My symptoms first started two years ago, I thought it was irritable bowel syndrome. I left it, and left it, as you do. I didn’t want to be a hypochondriac. They told me I was stressed. I went to the doctors two or three times – but just kept getting told it was IBS, and everything was normal, it was nothing to worry about. I would have diarrhea and constipation, but I wasn’t really being taken seriously by doctors. I had a really bad period,” she further remembered, “I was on a school trip and I had to go to A&E. I had blood tests, but they said everything was normal. But I left it – I reached a point where I was almost embarrassed to keep telling doctors I had something wrong with me. I just felt really silly.”