Kate Lawler has candidly confessed she has been having a ‘hard time mentally’ on the latest episode of Boj & Kate Have A Lot On Their Plate podcast.
The TV personality, 45, thanked her husband Martin Bojtos for ‘putting up with her’ in recent weeks as she admitted she’s been a ‘nightmare’ to live with.
Kate revealed her hormones have been ‘all over the place’ and has been feeling very ‘irritable’.
She said: ‘I just want to say thank you for putting up with me because I am having a bit of a hard time at the minute, mentally.
‘And I know that I am a nightmare to live with and my hormones are all over the place. I am irritable.’
Martin said: ‘I know, it’s okay. You find me irritating, well you find anyone irritating.’
Kate Lawler, 45, has candidly confessed she has been having a ‘hard time mentally’ on the latest episode of Boj & Kate Have A Lot On Their Plate podcast
The TV personality thanked her husband Martin Bojtos for ‘putting up with her’ in recent weeks as she admitted she’s been a ‘nightmare’ to live with
‘For no reason!’, Kate chimed.
She added: ‘No, I wouldn’t actually because in the morning I woke up a gave Baxter a hug and then Shirley came down and I was like I love you so much.’
‘And then you walked in the room and I was like Ahh god, there he is again, ruining my life… You didn’t even do anything!’, she joked
In June, Kate revealed her battle with a secret health condition that left in ‘the worst pain of her life.’
The Big Brother star shared how she battled debilitating stomach pain, and was eventually rushed to hospital in Greece, before being reassured by doctors that ‘everything was fine.’
Kate told The Sun On Sunday that it took rounds of tests and several misdiagnoses back in the UK before doctors finally discovered she had pelvic congestion syndrome, a little-known condition caused by hidden varicose veins around the ovaries and womb.
She revealed: ‘It was a sharp, stabbing pain that would last from 10 seconds to several hours.
‘Then we were on holiday in 2018 and I thought I had a serious hernia or something was wrong with me, to the point that I went to hospital.
Kate revealed her hormones have been ‘all over the place’ and has been feeling very ‘irritable’
In June, Kate revealed her battle with a secret health condition that left in ‘the worst pain of her life’
The Big Brother star shared how she battled debilitating stomach pain, and was eventually rushed to hospital in Greece, before being reassured by doctors that ‘everything was fine’ (pictured with her daughter Noa)
Kate told The Sun On Sunday that it took rounds of tests and several misdiagnoses back in the UK before doctors finally discovered she had pelvic congestion syndrome
‘But doctors thought I was just going mad. They just said, ‘You’re fine,’ and left it at that. I was made to believe it was simply caused by my hormones, or ovulation.’
Kate, who shares daughter Noa, four, with husband Martin, added that she visited her GP twice, and was instead told it could be a hernia or endometriosis, and even a visit to a private gynaecologist failed to provide answers.
She went onto reveal that it was during a chance conversation at a routine appointment for her varicose veins in August 2022 that she discovered she had PCS.
The condition is most common in women aged 20 to 45 who have given birth more than once, as well as those with varicose veins, a family history of them, or polycystic ovary syndrome.
Patients can experience dull or heavy pain in their pelvis, and it can feel worse at worse at the end of the day, before or during your period, or during or after sex.
While many Brits have never heard of PCS, it affects around 1.5million people in the UK, and Kate said that a visit to The Whiteley Clinic helped her get tested for the condition.
The reality star added that varicose veins have run in her family, and they and PCS are ‘often interlinked.’
Treatment for PCS is typically pelvic vein embolisation – a procedure which involves placing tiny coils inside the damaged veins under X-ray guidance, and Kate said the procedure has changed her life.
The star said the procedure was ‘uncomfortable but not painful,’ and called for doctors to have more awareness of PCS.
