Think you have it worse?
A 28-year-old Taiwanese woman suffered from chest pains for over a year before she started coughing up blood and phlegm. What’s baffling was that it would only happen during menstruation.
After being taken to the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), doctors diagnosed her with endometriosis – a condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus that causes pelvic pain.
To put it simply, the tissue from a woman’s uterine lining, which is normally shed monthly as menstrual blood, grows outside of the organ. Somehow, this woman’s endometrial tissue traveled to her lungs and came out through her mouth as she coughed.
She was reportedly given birth control pills and hormone injections to prevent her from ovulating and menstruating. We never knew such a thing could happen inside our bodies. Yikes!
Watch the video explaining the condition here. It’s in Mandarin though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZRZ8kqQafQ
