At 28, I went down a relentless questioning spiral on many aspects of my health. Being that I’m a woman of Black British descent and we don’t always receive adequate treatment when it comes to health, my brain began to generate many questions – many pertaining to my fertility.

The rise of women openly discussing PCOS (or PMOS, as it will now be known), endometriosis and ovarian cysts led me to question if a pain I’d later discover in my abdomen could be down to one of these. I initially tried to rule it off as appendicitis but it was frequent, the pain varied and it began to ignite health anxieties that I’ve dealt with in the past.

I remembered that prior to the pain appearing, I’d read about gynaecological issues and began questioning if the pain was related to it. I went straight to Dr Google, convinced myself that, at worst, I had an ovarian cyst or appendicitis, and at best a small kidney stone. Then I went to the local urgent care to confirm.