A woman who gets so bloated she looks "pregnant" was diagnosed with a little-known womb condition - after being told having a baby might help ease her pain.

Grace Almey, 21, has always struggled with painful and heavy periods since she started them aged nine - and would sometimes bleed for three weeks at a time.

Her mum, Joanne, 56, took her to the doctors countless times and Grace tried various different contraceptive pills and the coil but nothing eased her symptoms.

Doctors continued to dismiss Grace's symptoms - and she says she was even told aged 15 'normally we'd tell women to have a baby' to help ease her pain.

She was eventually told they thought it was endometriosis and underwent a laparoscopy which instead diagnosed her with adenomyosis - a condition where the lining of the womb starts growing into the muscle in the wall of the womb.

Grace, from Scunthorpe, UK, is now living with the condition as the only way to rid her of the pain is to have a hysterectomy - to remove her uterus.