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A young woman with brown hair stares off into the distance. The background is blurry but she stands in front of greenery.

"I was literally referred to a psychologist because he was like, 'There's nothing wrong with you'."

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"A gynaecologist overheard me describing [to other doctors] what was going on, I went and saw her a couple of days later, and had surgery four weeks after that,"
she said.

A bald man wearing glasses with a grey goatie looks slightly away from the camera. There's a fiddleleaf fig plant behind him.

"It is [disappointing] for the women who live here — it's tough for them, particularly given the demands in their lives already and then to get treatment for the endometriosis, to have to travel to Perth,"
she said.

Nola Marino and daughter Kylie

A close up of a copper and plastic IUD.

"I think I would be a great mother, but the thought of getting the [IUD] out and having periods for a long amount of time to fall pregnant, just gives me absolute panic attacks,"
she said.
A young woman sits at a park bench, smiling

"We need to allow women to voice their concerns and for practitioners to take them seriously."

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