From back pain and fibroids to colitis and migraines, women live with more pain than men and have to take more pain killers. We talk to women dealing with it.

Women live with more pain than men - and it's hard to get help

Strong Women

negative

I was lying in pain, feeding my baby in her moses basket

What it’s like to live with chronic pain every day

The whole ‘my body’s a temple’ rhetoric is bollocks

My body feels like it becomes a deflated jellyfish

My life would be amazing if I wasn’t living with pain

How much pain do we have to put up with? 4 women share their experiences of living in daily discomfort