Researchers suggest that following diagnosis, women may take lower-paid jobs or work fewer hours.

Phoebe Lewis says greater support is needed for those living with a chronic illness.

Samantha Gelder says she had left jobs after feeling unsupported by her employer.

Zoë Armstrong assumed her bad period pains were an untreatable problem that she just had to endure.

Dee Montague-Coast left her job after colleagues questioned whether her symptoms were fabricated.

Dee Montague-Coast's former colleagues raised questions over whether her symptoms were fabricated.

Emily Brown says "medical misogyny" has left her and other women suffering for years.

The mother-of-three "could have lived for longer" had she been seen face-to-face, her husband believes.