The Times, Rachel said she was stunned to be denied a hysterectomy, allegedly being told: "I don’t want you to have any regrets in case your life circumstances change, [for example] your sexual orientation changes and you leave your partner and you meet someone else and he wants to have children."Speaking to Buzzfeed, Rachel said she would cry because of period pain every month.When she was 25 that a female doctor told her it "wasn't normal" to be in so much pain, despite, she said, other doctors continually writing it off.
After she saw a gynaecologist she found out she had multiple cysts on both ovaries, including one which appeared to be an endometriosis."I feel like I'm missing out on a lot in my life because of the pain that I am in,".