Leona Macken

there were very much symptoms that like every other woman would get.

Like little pains here and there, pains around my, you know, when my period and things like that.

And they kind of started progressing in like 2022.

And that's when I started going to my GP being like, you know, I'm getting pains, hair was like all across my ovaries and it was like a dull ache kind of, you know.

And then my period started becoming very irregular.

So I always was like on the ball with my period and stuff like that.

And then I could go like, you know, 21 days, it could be like 30 odd days, 41 days.

And I was like, this is really weird, you know, it's never.

But again, I was just putting it down to I've just had two babies and I'm still, my body's still recovering.

Maybe I had them close together and things like that.

Then in, I think it was January 2023, I'd been to my GP a few times.

And again, like, I mean, my GP was looking at my history.

I've never had any abnormalities.

I feel like even if I had had abnormalities, I may have been, like, checked a little bit more for smears or...

you know, there would have been a little bit of an alarm kind of going, okay, she had abnormalities at some stage.

But like I had two really heady pregnancies.

I didn't have a bother like getting pregnant as well.

And my smears were all perfect.

So it didn't seem to be anything too sinister.

I kind of was saying, is it like the menopause or endometriosis, something like that.