hysterectomy she wanted to have.Rachel Champ is a sales agent and master’s degree student, studying criminology. For 17 years, she’s had immensely painful periods, she told BuzzFeed."I still vividly remember getting my first period and curling into a ball on my bed in the fetal position and crying because of the pain.
This became a new routine for me every month.”Two years ago, she was given her first cervical screening."It wasn’t until I had my first pap smear test when I was 25 and spoke to the female doctor who performed it.
She told me that it wasn't normal to be in so much pain every month that I couldn’t walk, missed work/college/events, and had to take so many painkillers just to function,” Champ said.She then went to a gynecologist.