BBC presenter Naga Munchetty has said that she has a debilitating womb condition that has left her screaming in pain.
The broadcaster, 48, has said that she has adenomyosis, a condition that causes the lining of the womb to bury into the muscular wall of the womb.
Speaking on her BBC Radio 5 Live show, she said: "Right now, as I sit here talking to you, I am in pain, constant, nagging pain in my uterus, around my pelvis.
"Sometimes it runs down my thighs, and I will have some level of pain for the entire show and for the rest of the day until I go to sleep.
"Every so often the pain changes. It becomes a stabbing pain, a pain that takes my breath away and I can do nothing but sit with it for a minute or curl up to cope."
The pain was so bad over the weekend, she was screaming and her husband called an ambulance, the BBC Breakfast host told listeners.
She said: "On Saturday night, I came home from the theatre and my adenomyosis flared up.
"I was in so much pain I could barely walk from the car to my front door. It was only with my husband's help that I made it upstairs.
"The pain was so terrible I couldn't move, turn over, sit up. I screamed non-stop for 45 minutes.
"I finally got to sleep and in the middle of the night the pain returned and it was worse.
"My husband called an ambulance.
"By the time they called back the pain had subsided a little but that pain, my goodness, I couldn't move."
Munchetty said that she was told she has the condition eight months ago - although her uterus would need to be removed and examined to have that confirmed.
The presenter, who is resisting a hysterectomy, said that the diagnosis came "after decades of painful, heavy periods, periods that made me pass out, sweat, cry, moan, groan, curled up in a tight ball, having to sleep on a towel".
She said: "I felt weak but also angry. Every time I told a doctor about it, I was told I was just unlucky."
She said that she was never offered a scan or ultrasound or any follow-up appointments until she bled for 30 days straight a few months ago and had a scan, which revealed adenomyosis.
Munchetty's 5 Live show featured other women living with the condition, including one mother who said that her daughter no longer asks to play with her because she knows she will not be able to because of her pain.
Source: Press Association
