A woman is spreading awareness to her TikTok followers after a painful ovarian cyst that doctors dismissed grew large enough for strangers to mistake it for a pregnancy.
As we're seeing them reveal more and more nowadays, many women have suffered in silence for years after their concerns and symptoms were dismissed by health care professionals.
It's certainly frustrating to see doctors not take your very real pain seriously, but it's widespread enough among women that these dismissals can have life-threatening consequences.
One case saw a woman's ovarian cancer nearly go undetected, while Serena Williams' near-death experience shows that even worldwide fame doesn't prevent this lack of professional consideration.
And for one woman, such a dismissal compelled her to question her own painful symptoms until they became too obvious to ignore.
