A DEVASTATED woman claims having her disease dismissed by doctors as "bad periods" for 15 years left her childless - after suffering eight miscarriages.

Sophie Bunton says she began to experience painful, heavy periods from her first menstrual cycle aged 13.

When she was left bedbound each month and forced to miss school Sophie booked an appointment with her GP, who prescribed her the combined pill aged 15.

But after spending two years struggling with the physical and mental health side effects of the pill she stopped taking it.

The semi-permanent makeup artist claims she spent the next decade being passed from doctor to doctor who would put it down to simply "bad periods".

During this time, Sophie's pain worsened and she suffered her first miscarriage aged 19.

The 30-year-old

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