Last week, triple j Good Nights host Bridget Hustwaite described her epic long journey to finding out whether she had endometriosis.

It had been five years since she first told a GP she was experiencing bad period pain. She suspected she had endometriosis, but the only way to know for sure was to have surgery.

On Thursday, she had that surgery.

Hack caught up with her today to find out how it all went, and where to from here.

"The first thing I said to the nurse [when I came out of anesthetic] was can we watch the Honey Badger," Bridget told Hack, speaking from bed with a hot water bottle on her stomach.

"The Bachelor was on my mind."

"It wasn't till the following morning I got more detail."

'I went into the procedure not knowing if they would find anything'

Endometriosis is condition where tissue that's normally inside the uterus grows outside. It's incredibly painful, and has been described as "like my uterus is sitting on a bed of razor blades", and "like someone is taking a cheese grater to my cervix".

It's also very hard to diagnose. There's no blood test, no reliable scan. The most trustworthy option is keyhole surgery - a procedure known as a laparoscopy.

The surgeon would make an incision in her abdomen and insert a camera inside. If they found uterus tissue growing outside of the uterus, they would try and cut it out.

This meant that when Bridget went under general anesthetic, she didn't know exactly what procedure she was going to get, or how long it would take.

"It's really the fear of the unknown I suppose," she said.

"I went into the procedure not knowing if they would find anything.

"I had my expectations really low."

Speaking with Hack before the surgery, Bridget said she would be relieved to learn she had endometriosis.

No-one would want to be diagnosed with an incurable and painful condition, but after years of really bad period pain, she just wanted answers.

That next morning she got them: she had stage four endometriosis; the most advanced. The surgery had taken twice as long as expected. They had been able to cut it all out.

"They found it across my rectum, across the bladder, across the pelvic side walls," Bridget said.

"It was quite spread out, and not isolated to one area."

It sounded like a real hot party down there.

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'I can't tell you how relieved I am'

Bridget has received a ton of messages of support since she shared her story.

She's also been contacted by a lot of people who were not sure if the period pain they were experiencing was normal, and had been too afraid to talk about it. Endometriosis affects about 10 per cent of women in the course of their lives.

For many years, it has been dismissed as 'just period pain'.

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Here's one of the messages:

"For some stupid reason I've always been unsure about how legit my illness has been. I work with a bunch of guys in a trade and we listen to triple j all day on the radio in the workshops. Your story was the opportunity I didn't know I was waiting for to explain to my workmates why exactly I've had to go to hospital at times and why I've missed days of work just because of period pain."

Bridget said messages like this had made the pain she suffered seem more worthwhile.

As for the recovery, she thinks it's going well.

"I feel pretty great today," she said.

"I can get up and walk around and not be too tired.

"I think I'm just really happy with the fact I found out what's wrong.

"I can't tell you how relieved I am.

"Now I just want to look at how I can maintain my health and hopefully prevent it from growing back."

Bridget hopes to back on Good Nights by next Monday.