The 3 symptoms of actress Florence Pugh’s condition she assumed were ‘normal’ until a DREAM prompted a check-up

FLORENCE Pugh has urged women to checked aft a shocking diagnosis saw her getting her eggs frozen aged conscionable 27.

The Little Women star, present 28, prima revealed 3 symptoms she'd assumed were "normal" earlier bizarre dreams prompted her to get a gynaecological checkup.

Florence appeared connected the SHE MD podcast, speaking to influencer Mary Alice Haney and Dr Thaïs Aliabadi, a gynecological surgeon who Florence with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

The usually backstage histrion said: "I wouldn't astir apt sermon immoderate different comic things that I've recovered astir my body, but my beingness has wholly changed since uncovering retired this information.

"And successful a large way, due to the fact that it means that I person to truly beryllium connected the ball, and I person to truly aftermath up and instrumentality my health a spot much earnestly than I would person done."

The 28-year-old said she'd experienced agonising periods that past up to 2 weeks arsenic a teen, earlier having a copper coil fitted.

But she continued experiencing baffling symptoms arsenic an adult, which she enactment down to "being a woman".

"I had acne," the Don't Worry Darling histrion told the podcast hosts.

"I decidedly person hair that shouldn't beryllium successful definite places. But I conscionable thought that was portion of being a woman, and besides surviving a possibly somewhat stressful life."

Florence said she besides experienced "constant value fluctuation".

She explained: "I'm idiosyncratic that has ne'er been the aforesaid size successful my full life.

"I've ever gone up and down and up and down. And it's ne'er truly been thing that I've been hugely fussed by due to the fact that it's ever conscionable been a portion of my life.

"I ever devour well, and I exercise, and I conscionable considered that was because, I person a curvy assemblage and my ma has a curvy assemblage and my sisters person curvy bodies and that's conscionable the mode that we are."

But aft speaking to Dr Aliabadi, Florence recovered retired that each her symptoms could beryllium pegged to PCOS.

The communal information affects however ovaries work, causing irregular oregon absent periods and problems getting pregnant.

Sufferers tin besides acquisition carnal symptoms specified arsenic excessive hairsbreadth growth, value gain, thinning hairsbreadth and acne.

Research suggests that astir 70 per cent of those with the hormonal information haven't been diagnosed.

'Mind boggling'

Florence discussed the bizarre circumstances that pb her to spot a specialist.

She said: "I had this abrupt feeling that I should spell and get everything checked.

"I'd had a fewer weird dreams, I deliberation my assemblage was telling me.

"And I past asked my adjacent friends if they knew immoderate astonishing gynaecologists.

"I went successful to conscionable Thais for my appointment, and she asked if I’d ever had an ovum number done and I was like, “no what bash you mean? I'm truthful young. Why bash I request an ovum count?”

Aside from PCOS, Dr Aliabadi besides diagnosed the prima with endometriosis and advised her to person her eggs frozen - this involves collecting and freezing eggs arsenic a means to person a household successful the future.

Speaking connected the podcast, the gynaecologist explained that some PCOS and endometriosis tin impact people's quality to conceive.

"When [Florence] presented to me, she gave this agelong history of achy periods and luckily idiosyncratic successful London enactment a progesterone IUD successful her, which helped relieve a batch of her symptoms .

"Endometriosis erstwhile untreated - successful her lawsuit it was treated - tin impact your ovum number and quantity.

"I had diagnosed her with PCOS. So, PCOS patients person a batch of eggs but the prime goes down aft 30.

"When you person a diligent with some imaginable diagnoses, you privation to spot wherever that ovum number sits."

Dr Aliabadi said she often starts having conversations astir ovum freezing with her patients aft the property of 28.

Florence recalled being baffled astatine having to deliberation astir her fertility from the property of 27.

"It was conscionable truthful bizarre due to the fact that my household are babe making machines," she pointed out.

"My mum had babies into her forties. My gran had babies throughout, she had truthful galore kids arsenic well.

"I conscionable ne'er assumed that I was going to beryllium successful immoderate mode antithetic [or] that determination was going to beryllium an contented with it oregon that I had to deliberation astir it earlier I needed to deliberation astir it.

"It conscionable truly wasn't a reddish emblem for me, it wasn't a worry.

"And past of course, I learned wholly antithetic information, astatine property 27, that I request to get my eggs out, and bash it quickly, which was conscionable a spot of a caput boggling realisation, and 1 that I'm truly fortunate and gladsome that I recovered retired erstwhile I did due to the fact that I've been wanting kids since I was a child."

'Let down'

Since Florence's diagnosis, she said "two oregon three" of her friends person had akin symptoms checked retired and discovered they person PCOS.

The histrion said she felt "let down" astir the deficiency of speech astir the condition.

She pointed out: "We inquire young girls to support mindful of the lumps successful their breasts and, enactment mindful astir thing that whitethorn consciousness peculiarly unusual there, but we conscionable person nary acquisition connected looking aft what is going connected wrong america and the things that we can't spot and the things that we can't consciousness and I consciousness truthful fto down by the deficiency of conversation.

"I consciousness truthful fto down for each of the young women that are going to find this retired acold excessively precocious and are going to find this retired erstwhile they commencement to person children successful their 30s.

"It wouldn't beryllium that hard to amended everybody connected this erstwhile you're astatine school. It's thing that volition beryllium the defining origin of whether you tin person children oregon not.

"And if you person a imagination of possibly 1 time being a mum, these things are truthful important, overmuch similar learning however to find lumps successful your breast."

The histrion urged different women to get akin symptoms checked out.

"It's conscionable truly not successful our civilization present successful England to beryllium having a gynaecologist that you spell and [see] often and to beryllium disquieted earlier you request to worried," she explained.

"I had a spot of a interest past summer and I conscionable wanted to spell and get things checked retired and past we ended up uncovering accusation that I astir apt wouldn't person known until I started having kids successful different 5 years."