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A woman in sleeveless top and shorts in hospital, wearing a mask and crouched down beside hospital bed.

A woman in striped pajamas lies curled up on the bathroom floor with a pillow under her head.

"I remember being on a two-night cruise away for work and being curled up in the shower, just in absolute agony, vomiting in the shower."

A bald man in his 50s with a goatee, wearing glasses.

"I'd love to know how many people are told 'I think the pain is in your head, I think you're anxious, you're stressed, you need to try and relax',"
she said.

"I had horrific pain with bowel movements, with urinating I was climbing up the wall like a gecko, and I started experiencing numbness between my legs."
a woman in a hospital gown, sitting up smiling in a hospital bed with a blood pressure cuff on her left arm

A person clutching their stomach. 

A blond woman sitting down, smiling at the camera

A woman in a labcoat opens something froma drawer.

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