If everything is going well today, Amandine Bégot has long suffered from an illness that affects 10% of women. Guest of “Buzz TV” this Monday, November 4, the journalist returned to the diagnosis from a doctor which could have disabled her for life.
Every morning on the radio, Amandine Bégot wakes up listeners in RTL Matin, but this Monday, the roles were reversed since it was she who was the guest on the show Buzz TVof TV Magazine. The opportunity for the 43-year-old journalist, whose partner and father of her son is far from unknown, to return to the illness from which she suffered for many years. Indeed, the Parisian suffers from endometriosis, a gynecological disease which affects one in ten women.
It was at the end of her twenties that Amandine Bégot began to consult to understand the illness that had been gnawing at her for some time, but unfortunately, she had a complicated experience with a specialist. “I went to see a surgeon who, supposedly, was a genius and who told me: 'Listen ma'am, you're going to have to operate. We're going to put an artificial anus on you – so with a pocket – it will go better and you will never have children'. And there, I looked at him and I said: 'Do you know the job I do?', which is still a job of images. Would you imagine a TV presenter with her pocket?”remembers the famous journalist mother.
Amandine Bégot conducts her own investigation
Following this traumatic consultation, Amandine Bégot began to do research of her own to find out more about the illness that was gnawing at her. “I discovered hell. Seven years on average to be diagnosed… Well, I was very well taken care of, not operated on at all, by a fantastic team at the Saint-Joseph hospital in Paris (14th arrondissement), which is extraordinary. Afterwards, I said to myself: 'But in fact, I wouldn't have been a journalist, honestly, I'm not sure I wouldn't have had surgery from this guy who told me that I need to have an operation'”she explains to our colleagues, before saying a little more about the consequences of endometriosis on her daily life at the time: “It is not a question of life or death, it's just a life that is honestly very, very degradedbut I said to myself that we have to tell people that there is no no fatalitythat we can be taken care of.”
Does Amandine Bégot still suffer from endometriosis?
Although she is now much better, Amandine Bégot is not completely out of the woods. “It is a disease from which there is no cure, it is under control (…) There are two medicines: a pregnancy which soothes and otherwise menopause”she indicates to Buzz TVbefore discussing this complicated period where she had to deal with illness at the same time as her everyday work: “I remember taking ultra strong medications just before going on air to be able to hold on. It’s really painful.”
A strong testimony from Amandine Bégot, finally rid of this pathology which has been gnawing at her for so long. Speaking to RTL Girls in 2019, she already spoke about this illness: “You have to realize, it's not just 'my stomach hurts a little'. I had pain all over my lower back, all of your legs are cramped, you have the impression that you can't stand. To give an idea of the magnitude of the pain, when I gave birth, my gynecologist told me: 'You'll see, contractions are less worse than endometriosis.' Indeed: in times of crisis, endometriosis causes terrible pain.”
Original article on Purepeople
