Periods limited mum's life for years until chance moment on train

Periods limited mum's life for years until chance moment on train

For years, Fran Steyn battled life-limiting periods, being bounced around the NHS with no real solution— until a chance glance at a Tube advert helped her reclaim control. At 41, with two young children and a busy job as a women’s health fertility nurse, Fran’s life was derailed by increasingly heavy, painful periods that left her physically and emotionally drained.

For more than two years, she endured a silent struggle: monthly cycles that were so heavy that they stopped her from working, exercising, socialising - even leaving the house. As a women’s health and fertility nurse, Fran, from Swansea, is no stranger to the realities of female health.

But nothing prepared her for the spiral her own periods would take in her