My endometriosis symptoms appeared when I was 11-years-old (Picture: Elodie Giuge Photography) ‘Is there anything else you’d like to ask?’, the surgeon queried. ‘You wanted to ask if your cervix was being removed,’ my husband Chris prompted me. It was my final appointment before my extensive endometriosis surgery, which would also see me having a hysterectomy […]
12 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
I thought my husband just liked moaning — but his grumpiness was a symptom of a deadly disease
Jean Gurrey began noticing husband Mark’s mood change (Picture: Brain Tumour Research) When Jean Gurrey, 69, noticed her husband, Mark, 70, becoming short-tempered and irritable, she put it down to him ‘just liking a good moan’. But when he also began experiencing mini seizures, a CT scan in January 2023 revealed his increasing ‘grumpiness’ was […]
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‘I didn’t want to use jabs to lose weight, so tried therapy instead’
Bi-monthly therapy sessions sat at the heart of Christine’s weight loss journey (Picture: Chrstine Swain) Christine Swain was on holiday in Marrakesh last year when she asked her husband, Richard, to take a photo of her. Lounging in a bikini in front of a stunning rooftop view, she thought it would make a lovely picture. […]
I’ve struck up conversations with at least 70 people over the years (Picture: Michael Redina / Sam Lane Photography) Walking through my local park recently, I noticed an elderly man sitting alone on a bench, just staring ahead. He looked sad and something about his demeanour didn’t seem right. Pausing for a moment, I went […]
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My fiancée helped me beat cancer – then got her own terminal diagnosis
Hannah started chemotherapy during pregnancy (Picture: Brett Harman) I’ll never forget the day I was told I had cancer. It was September 2015 and I was just 26. For weeks, I’d been feeling exhausted, plagued by back pain, and picking up infections from the smallest of cuts. When I finally went for blood tests, and […]
I dwell on every single little interaction (Picture: Sybilla Hart) Driving around the winding roads near my home in East Anglia recently, I was startled when I was beeped by a fellow driver. Presumably I’d annoyed them in some way. While this is the kind of routine occurrence that most people can shrug off, as […]
10 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
People are getting ‘HoleTox’ injections to loosen up in the bedroom
The treatment involves Botox being injected to relax the sphincter muscle (Picture: Getty/Metro) Botox has a whole host of uses beyond smoothing out wrinkles, helping with everything from excessive sweating to jaw clenching. Now, it’s also being employed in more innovate (and intimate) ways, with so-called ‘HoleTox’ serving to improve people’s sex lives and combat […]
Both are unpleasant, but they’re not the same (Picture: Getty Images/Maskot) Migraines and headaches are both unpleasant — but while symptoms of the two can overlap, they’re not interchangeable terms. In a LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor survey, 65% of people said they can’t tell the difference between a headache and a migraine, potentially meaning they get […]
Jamie was diagnosed with a hereditary eye condition (Picture: Jamie Ward) As Jamie Ward admired the blues and oranges of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, he felt overcome with emotion. But the 61-year-old wasn’t just moved by seeing this world-famous painting in real-life. Just six months earlier, he’d been diagnosed with a hereditary eye condition, and he […]
8 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Woman who ‘died’ says she ‘had to share’ what she saw in the afterlife
In 2006, Anita Moorjani had been living with terminal lymphoma for four years. She described those years as being ‘riddled with the fear of the disease, fear of dying’, and fear of cancer treatments. In short, life was looking pretty bleak. One day, her condition rapidly deteriorated, and she was admitted to the hospital in […]