Naga Munchetty opens up about her life long battle with adenomyosis and how she was forced to get sterilisation to stop the excruciating pain
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Naga Munchetty has opened up about her life long battle with adenomyosis after years of dealing with excruciating pain and no answers to solve it.
The BBC presenter, 50, lived with painful heavy bleeding, vomiting, fainting and severe aching every two and a half weeks for 32 years before a private doctor finally gave her a diagnosis in 2022.
Adenomyosis is a condition where the lining of the womb (uterus) starts growing into the muscle in the wall of the womb. It can affect one in 10 women, as per the NHS.
She told The Sunday Times: ‘It makes you angry. If you are second-guessing that you are not strong enough to be a woman, that you are weaker than all the other women because you’re told it’s all normal, everyone’s going through it, you second-guess other parts of your life.’
‘I’ve never been suicidal but definitely, because there were no answers, I just thought, I can’t go through this in another two and a half weeks. It just needs to stop’, she added.
Before she was diagnosed, in 2019 Naga opted to get sterilised in an attempt to stop her symptoms because she thought it was her ‘only option’.
Naga Munchetty, 50, has opened up about her life long battle with adenomyosis after years of dealing with excruciating pain and no answers to solve it
The BBC presenter lived with painful heavy bleeding, vomiting, fainting and severe aching every two and a half weeks for 32 years before a private doctor finally gave her a diagnosis in 2022 (pictured with co-star Charlie Stayt)
Female sterilisation is a permanent type of contraception, which requires keyhole surgery, where the fallopian tubes are blocked or cut to stop sperm meeting an egg.
For Naga, she said the procedure wasn’t a tough decision as she and her husband James Haggar, 52, were certain they didn’t want children.
She said: ‘I knew I didn’t want children and I didn’t want to be reliant on hormones or the regimen of the pill because it didn’t fit with my lifestyle. It felt like it was my only option.’
