September 17, 2026 — 6:00am
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Lilia Tennant still remembers being curled up on the floor of a store on Chapel Street with agonising abdominal pain.
Tennant was 13, shopping with their mother, and days away from getting their first period.
“It was pretty crazy, I literally fell to the floor the pain was so bad,” the now 22-year-old said. “It was a sign of what was to come.”
It would take more than six years for doctors to finally diagnose Tennant with endometriosis, a chronic, inflammatory condition in which tissue similar to the inner lining…
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