TV and radio host Naga Munchetty is still struggling with a health condition and would like more help from the NHS regarding research and treatment for women.
Naga Munchetty has opened up about her debilitating health condition and revealed that last month pain was so “overwhelming” she fainted before she was due to go on air. The BBC broadcaster has said that “overwhelming would be an understatement” when describing the pain she suffers from adenomyosis, a condition in which uterus tissue grows into the the muscular uterine wall.
Munchetty, 51, has campaigned for better understanding and awareness of the issue as health conditions that affect women are often overlooked. The BBC 5 Live and BBC Breakfast host said the pain affects her so much that she will “faint and throw up” – which is exactly what happened recently just before she was due to be at work.
She said: “We’re shouting about adenomyosis, we’re shouting about endometriosis, we’re shouting about this health gap and care gap that exists, and it will take years to be heard, but you’ve got to start somewhere.
“I’ve spoken about it on my platforms, you know, Five Live and Breakfast as a journalist, but it’s a very difficult thing to do. I don’t want to keep saying I’m in pain. It doesn’t do my mental health any good.
“It takes me back to a time when I was at school and vomiting, throwing up, fainting. I fainted just in the last month when I had a period again just before work and was really ill.
“We’re ill, and yet we get all this other stuff and it makes you feel like you’re doing less well than other women. I would look around… and think ‘she’s doing brilliantly, she’s coping, look at how far she’s gone, I’m not doing well enough’.
“I would look at my peers and think ‘they’re just cracking on with it, why is it affecting you so much – when I have something different?’.”
She added: “I have an illness, a condition, but because I was told it was normal, when someone says you’re in pain I say I’m fine.
“I get really pissed off and really angry. I’m not in pain every minute of the day but when it comes, my goodness, overwhelming is an understatement – I’m ill, I can pass out, I throw up.
“I will be doubled up and I will lie on the floor because I need to feel uncomfortable to distract me.”
Speaking in a new interview on the White Wine Question Time podcast, TV host Naga also spoke about working six days a week for live broadcasts on BBC TV and Radio 5 Live.
Despite her pain she still loves her work and said: “Live for me is so much better for the way my mind works. You have to be really sharp when you are broadcasting live, but if you fluff a word you just move on.
“I love being live and it feels you have a connection with the audience you wouldn’t feel if you put something out which is pre-recorded. I love that part about being live.”
In May 2023, Naga told on radio how her husband called an ambulance when a flare up left her in constant pain where she was screaming “non stop for 45 minutes”.
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