Love Island Erin Barnett, 26, battling  doctors for a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis

Erin Barnett has revealed that she is warring with doctors who refuse to give her a hysterectomy.  

The  26-year-old former Love Island Australia contestant has had 17 surgeries starting at age 14, due to suffering severe endometriosis and PCOS. 

She wants to have a hysterectomy to end her pain – but can’t find a surgeon who will agree to perform the operation. 

‘It’s not a cure but I would probably be 90 per cent pain-free and today I’m living with about 1000 per cent pain every day,’ she told Nine Honey on Friday. 

‘Sure, I would go into menopause and there are increased risks of having a stroke or heart attack in my 60s.

‘But that means I have to live in pain and have constant surgeries for another 30 years. I accept the risks and yet they still won’t do it’. 

Help needed: She wants to have a hysterectomy to end her pain – but can’t find a surgeon who will agree to perform the operation. ‘It’s not a cure but I would probably be 90 per cent pain-free and today I’m living with about 1000 per cent pain every day,’ she said 

Erin went on to say that she was able to get breast implants, but won’t be granted a hysterectomy despite suffering pain that she describes like being burned from the inside, and has previously had a three-kilo cyst. 

‘When I asked for large breast implants my surgeon advised against it, but it was what I wanted so I understood the risks and signed the form,’ she said.  

Previously describing her symptoms on Instagram, Erin wrote: ‘Don’t know what’s going on! But look at how swollen I am. I’m in agony! I feel like my insides are on fire’. 

Struggle: Erin went on to say that she was able to get breast implants, but won’t be granted a hysterectomy despite suffering pain that she describes like being burned from the inside, and has previously had a three-kilo cyst

A furious Erin continued: ‘When you’ve had 17 surgeries since you were 14, left fallopian tube/ovary removed, two cyst ruptures and diagnosed with endometriosis, adenomyosis and PCOS, then come back and tell me how to live my life.’ 

She added: ‘You have no idea what this amount of pain, suffering and surgeries will do to you mentally, let alone physically.’  

Erin first discovered she had these debilitating disorders when she had a three-litre cyst removed from her ovary at the age of 15. 

‘When I asked for large breast implants my surgeon advised against it, but it was what I wanted so I understood the risks and signed the form,’ she said