'It's madness': Kerry teen had to trek through three countries to get her endometriosis diagnosed

Lorraine Fitzgerald and her daughter Kaysey at home in Killarney, Co Kerry. After visits to doctors in Cork, Kerry, and Spain, Kaysey was finally diagnosed with endometriosis in Romania. Picture: Dan Linehan

“It’s madness that we had to leave the country twice to try and get a diagnosis."

That is according to the mother of a teenage girl whose endometriosis was not diagnosed for three years by doctors in Cork, Kerry, and even Spain before finally she was told by a clinic in Romania what was causing her to have crippling stomach cramps, vomiting, and back pain.