Liverpool Echo, the mum-of-one said: "My body was just attacking itself and causing inflammation." Amy said she first started noticing symptoms around Easter last year, but faced a long and gruelling journey before she was finally diagnosed in January 2020.She said: "In Easter time, 2019, I had terrible cramps and I was going to the toilet and I noticed blood, but I didn't go to the doctors."It must have been a flare up because after a few days it stopped happening.