Nicola Sleep, 32, of Upper Gagetown, has good days and bad days with endometriosis. (Submitted by Nicola Sleep)
For more than 20 years, Nicola Sleep has endured excruciating pain for up to two weeks of every month.
It feels “like razor blades in my stomach, or if someone poured acid in your abdomen and just left it there,” she says.
Her only escape has been to “live in” a hot bath or to curl up in the fetal position with a heating pad until it numbs, or sometimes even burns, her skin.
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Sleep, 32, of Upper Gagetown, suffers from severe endometriosis, which flares up during menstruation