‘I live every day on painkillers’: Naga Munchetty says she thought she would pass out from pain on BBC

Veteran BBC presenter Naga Munchetty has revealed she has a painful womb condition as recounted a time she recently felt like she was going to pass out from pain on BBC Breakfast.

Speaking to The Independent in an exclusive interview, the 48-year-old journalist said she was diagnosed with a condition called adenomyosis which she had never heard of until her diagnosis around eight months ago.

Munchetty explained she is in constant pain and lives “every day on painkillers” as she noted she does not wear “light-coloured trousers” while presenting as she is “so afraid” of leaking while on her period.

The broadcaster said she had been so overwhelmed with the worst pain of her life this weekend that her husband had called an ambulance in the middle of the night.

“I was writhing around and moaning and screaming in pain. Eventually I got sleep after about 45 minutes. And then it happened again in the middle of the night and we had to call an ambulance because I couldn’t be moved. And I was just screaming.

“All I remember saying is if the ambulance comes, which it didn’t. Do not let them, give me a full hysterectomy because that is the only cure to get rid of it.”

An estimated one in 10 women is believed to have adenomyosis but the misunderstood condition often remains undetected by doctors for years.

Symptoms of the condition, which has been branded the “evil twin sister” of the much better known endometriosis, include heavy periods, bloating, and pelvic pain. The NHS has no page on its site describing adenomyosis despite having a page for endometriosis.

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