Woman Says Doctors Removed 2 Organs Before Solving Her Mystery Pain

Svitlana Hulko / Getty Images A woman says she had two organs unnecessarily removed during a 15-year battle to discover the true cause of her debilitating pain.

Amber Williams, 35, from Mitcham, London, told Southwest News Service that she spent years being told her agonizing periods were “normal” before finally being diagnosed with endometriosis and adenomyosis in July.

By then, Williams had undergone surgeries to remove both her appendix and gallbladder—neither of which, she claims, turned out to be the source of her pain.

“I left without an organ and still without an answer as to why I was in so much pain,” Williams said of her appendectomy.

Williams said her symptoms began when she was 11 and became so severe by 14 that she regularly missed school.

Doctors prescribed the contraceptive pill, which Williams remained on for around four years.

She said it offered little relief and caused side effects including weight gain and severe mood changes.

At 21, Williams went to the emergency room with such severe pain that doctors suspected appendicitis.

She underwent an appendectomy in 2012, only to be told afterward that there had been nothing wrong with her appendix.

Williams estimates she visited the emergency room 12 times over the following years and underwent numerous tests, only to repeatedly be given painkillers and sent home.

She alleges one medical professional even told her, “If you were really in that much pain, you wouldn’t have that much make-up on.” In 2016, doctors diagnosed Williams with gallstones and pancreatitis, leading to another operation to remove her gallbladder.

Williams said she was again told after surgery that there had been nothing significantly wrong with the organ.

Meanwhile, her symptoms grew increasingly severe.

She said she suffered heavy bleeding that could fill a sanitary pad every hour, vomited from the pain, and sometimes collapsed.