An undiagnosed pain at nineteen began a disease leaving lifelong infertility

Evidence

The strange pain that was no known pain was the beginning of a disease process that left me infertile by the age of twenty-seven, and which leaves me, even today, an unwilling stranger in my own body. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 226

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the causal chain from misdiagnosis to permanent bodily consequence central to the memoir — connects to: Medical dismissals of women’s pain mask underlying chronic disease processes
• QUESTION: What was the disease? Never named—a silence worth investigating.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 226