WOMEN suffering from debilitating heavy periods will be able to buy a "miracle" drug used to treat endometriosis.

Starting tomorrow, the pill called Evana will be available to millions of women at high-street pharmacies across the UK for the first time.

The new drug, containing tranexamic acid, has been proven to reduce period blood loss by up to 60 per cent.

People who have taken the medicine have called it a "miracle," with one saying it freed her after decades of being "imprisoned" by her painful cycle, letting her "live life again.

More than 13 million women in the UK suffer from heavy periods, which not only cause increased pain and inconvenience but can also result in anaemia or iron deficiency .

The medicine is already available on the NHS with a prescription for women wi

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