Endometriosis: Bindi Irwin reveals decade-long struggle with severe pain

Australian conservationist and TV property Bindi Irwin has revealed she has suffered "insurmountable pain" from endometriosis for a decade.

In an Instagram post, Ms Irwin, 24, said she had undergone country to alleviate the condition.

Endometriosis is caused erstwhile insubstantial akin to the womb's lining grows successful the ovaries and fallopian tubes.

Ms Irwin said she felt she needed to stock her communicative present "for different women who request help".

Posting a photograph of herself lying successful a infirmary bed, Ms Irwin said trying to stay affirmative and fell the symptom had "been a precise agelong road."

She had endured "insurmountable fatigue, symptom and nausea" implicit the years.

"A doc told maine it was simply thing you woody with arsenic a pistillate and I gave up entirely, trying to relation done the pain," she wrote.

She said a person past helped her determine to acquisition surgery- a "scary" decision.

"I knew I couldn't unrecorded similar I was. Every portion of my beingness was getting torn isolated due to the fact that of the pain," she said.

In the operation, doctors recovered a cyst filled with menstrual humor and 37 lesions - "some precise heavy and hard to remove", she wrote.

"Validation for years of symptom is indescribable," she said.

She told her 5.1 cardinal followers she was present recovering from the treatment, and thanked friends, household and aesculapian unit for their support.

She added that stigma astir endometriosis meant galore women were suffering successful silence.

"Let this beryllium your validation that your symptom is existent & you merit help," she wrote.

Endometriosis affects astir one-in-ten women and girls of reproductive property globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

It tin origin terrible symptom during periods, intersexual intercourse and bowel movements, arsenic good arsenic pelvic pain, abdominal bloating, nausea and fatigue.

It tin besides impact fertility, and the condition's interaction connected prime of beingness tin besides pb to anxiousness and depression.

There is presently nary known cure, but attraction tin assistance trim symptoms.

Bindi Irwin roseate to fame pursuing successful the footsteps of her father, the 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin, an Australian conservationist and TV documentary host. She made her archetypal TV quality with him arsenic an infant.

She joined nonrecreational wakeboarder Chandler Powell connected 25 March 2020 and gave commencement to a daughter, Grace Warrior, precisely 1 twelvemonth aboriginal successful 2021.

Steve Irwin died aged 44 successful 2006 aft being stung by a stingray portion filming connected the Great Barrier Reef disconnected the seashore of Queensland.