At 18, she was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome and fibromyalgia due to her fatigue.
After finishing university a year early due to her health, Ms Ormond moved to Australia, where she began experiencing pain after sex, sometimes fainting afterwards.
She began seeing a range of medical professionals, including gastroenterologists, immunologists and gynaecologists, but none were able to tell her what was causing her symptoms or how to relieve them.
“If you’re being taken to doctors, and you’re saying, ‘Look, this is how I feel’, and they say, ‘Well, your tests come back clear, you’re all fine’, it really plays with your own self-esteem,” she said.
“I isolated myself because I didn’t know what was going on and I felt absolutely rubbish.”
