For years, no one could explain Tara's 'barbed wire, stabbing pain'

By Esther Han
Updated December 12 2017 - 9:34am, first published December 11 2017 - 11:06pm
Portrait of Tara Smith, who suffers from endometriosis, a little understood disorder. Awareness and research about is growing, but many women are still being diagnosed late and suffered in silence. Photographed Friday 8th December 2017. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 171208
Portrait of Tara Smith, who suffers from endometriosis, a little understood disorder. Awareness and research about is growing, but many women are still being diagnosed late and suffered in silence. Photographed Friday 8th December 2017. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 171208

On her worst days, 22-year-old Tara Smith feels so much pain in her pelvic region that a hot wheat bag, painkillers, and the comforts of her own bed, aren't enough. She needs to go to a hospital emergency department to get morphine.

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