When the pain suddenly came on, Emma Hurst would be left completely incapacitated.
"I could hardly construct a sentence, could not stand, vomited multiple times from the pain, and my body was shaking uncontrollably," she recalled.
Painkillers often didn't make a difference, and one episode was so severe it pushed her to call for an ambulance for the first time in her 39 years as she lay on a bathroom floor.
The New South Wales MP went on to have a series of similar experiences when working in her office before she had surgery to treat her adenomyosis
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