Academy Award-nominated actor Florence Pugh candidly spoke about her journey with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and endometriosis, and how the diagnoses impacted her life and her views on fertility. The 28-year-old actor sat down for an interview with the She MD podcast and shared her recent diagnosis to encourage more women to take their health seriously. (Also Read | Shamita Shetty undergoes surgery for endometriosis; all about the condition and how it can be treated ) ‘My life has completely changed.
..’ Talking about her diagnosis, Florence said in the podcast , “My life has completely changed since finding out this information.
..and in a great way, because it means that I really have to be on the board, and I really have to take it a bit more seriously than I would have done.
” The actor discovered she had PCOS last summer (when she was 27) when she had a ‘sudden feeling’ that she should get herself checked out. “I had this sudden feeling that I should go and get everything checked. I’d had a few weird dreams; I think my body was telling me,” she said.
Then, Florence met with a gynaecologist, Dr Thaïs Aliabadi, also a host on the podcast, to address her concerns and get some tests done. It was at the gynaecologist that Florence first got to know that she had to get her egg count checked. “She (Dr Aliabadi) asked if I’d ever had an egg count done, and I was like, ‘No, what do you mean? I’m so young.
Why do I need an egg count?’” she reveal.
