BBC's Naga Munchetty shares health condition after husband forced to call 999

22 May 2023 , 10:46

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BBC's Naga Munchetty shares health condition after husband forced to call 999

Naga Munchetty has revealed she is living with a debilitating womb condition in a heartbreaking admission.

The BBC Breakfast star has told how she is living in constant pain that can be so severe it makes her scream.

The 49-year-old broadcaster has bravely told how she suffered a flare-up of her incapacitating adenomyosis on the weekend, which got so bad that her husband called an ambulance for her.

The presenter told her BBC Radio 5 Live listeners today: "The pain was so terrible I couldn't move, turn over, sit up. I screamed non-stop for 45 minutes."

Naga has been suffering an agonising wait for answers and treatment, and revealed she’s in pain even as she works.

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She told listeners: "Right now as I sit here talking to you: I am in pain. Constant, nagging pain.

Naga Munchetty revealed she's been suffering with adenomyosis (BBC)

"In my uterus. Around my pelvis. Sometimes it runs down my thighs.

"And I'll have some level of pain for the entire show and for the rest of the day until I go to sleep."

One in 10 women is thought to have adenomyosis, yet it can often go undiagnosed for years.

The condition occurs when the womb lining (the endometrium) grows within the muscular wall of the womb too.

While it’s not life-threatening, it can carry excruciating symptoms such as extremely heavy and painful periods, a bloated belly and pain during sex or when going to the toilet to poo.

Treatments to lessen the symptoms can include contraceptives but for some women, a hysterectomy is the only treatment.

But Naga, who’s symptoms began as a teenager, has told how she is resisting the surgical route to remove her womb at this point in an interview recorded with a fellow adenomyosis sufferer.

Last month Naga sparked speculation amongst BBC Breakfast fans when she went missing from her usual spot on the sofa with Charlie Stayt for a week.

Naga didn’t comment on her absence from the Corporation’s morning show at the time and neither did the Beeb.

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