For many teenage girls, endometriosis isn’t something that’s on their radar. Shannon Beasor was no different. “I knew almost nothing about it,” she says. “I’d read a story when I was younger where it was described as a horrible, painful condition. It was scary to make that connection when, years later, I was finally diagnosed.” 

Her medical issues began when she was a teenager. “It all started when I was 15,” says Shannon, who is now 21 and a student at The University of Liverpool, as well as an Our Future Health volunteer. “I fainted because I was in so much pain.”