A woman who gets so bloated she looks "pregnant" was diagnosed with a little-known womb condition - after being told having a baby might help ease her pain.<br /><br />Grace Almey, 21, has always struggled with painful and heavy periods since she started them aged nine - and would sometimes bleed for three weeks at a time.<br /><br />Her mum, Joanne, 56, took her to the doctors countless times and Grace tried various different contraceptive pills and the coil but nothing eased her symptoms.<br /><br />Doctors continued to dismiss Grace's symptoms - and she says she was even told aged 15 'normally we'd tell women to have a baby' to help ease her pain.<br /><br />She was eventually told they thought it was endometriosis and underwent a laparoscopy which instead diagnosed her with adenomyosis - a condition where the lining of the womb starts growing into the muscle in the wall of the womb. <br /><br />Grace, from Scunthorpe, UK, is now living with the condition as the only way to rid her of the pain is to have a hysterectomy - to remove her uterus.
