Kate “The Princess Fiona Years” — a Tale of Acromegaly

Kate Beddow
4 min readJun 28, 2018
Kate and her sister, who have always been almost identical facially.

I was fatigued, in constant pain and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t having a period even though I had come off my pill 5 months earlier. That was almost 10 years ago and it feels like it happened to another person now.

My doctor told me he would refer me to the hospital and they would “switch me back”, not quite what a girl wants to hear when she is desperate for…

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Kate Beddow

Words have power. Writer, coach, therapist and speaker. I work with women to create calmer, happier lives.