{"id":7082,"date":"2025-10-22T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:33:56","slug":"i-was-diagnosed-with-deadly-sepsis-after-experiencing-one-lesser-known-symptom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/i-was-diagnosed-with-deadly-sepsis-after-experiencing-one-lesser-known-symptom\/","title":{"rendered":"I was diagnosed with deadly sepsis after experiencing one lesser-known symptom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skye had been a fit and active 23-year-old until she started experiencing extreme back pain (Picture: Kennedy News & Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In September 2024, thrill-seeker Skye Owen, was living an active<\/a> lifestyle in Cornwall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old loved to hike<\/a>, surf, snowboard and explore on her motorbike.<\/p>\n

So, when she began experiencing back and hip pain following a busy weekend, she wasn’t particularly worried.<\/p>\n

But Skye’s joint pain was actually experiencing a lesser-known symptom of sepsis<\/a>, a deadly condition which occurs when the body reacts to an infection.<\/p>\n

Her condition was so critical, that doctors have since said she didn’t realise how ‘close’ she was to death.<\/p>\n

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The outdoor instructor regularly went surfing in her home county of Cornwall (Picture: Kennedy News & Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking of her experience, Skye says: ‘The pain was indescribable. It was that hopeless feeling of ‘there is nothing I can do,’ she said.<\/p>\n

When Skye first started experiencing symptoms last year, she assumed it was a sporting injury.<\/p>\n

‘I thought I must have done something surfing or fallen weirdly, which wasn’t out of the ordinary,’ she explained.<\/p>\n

‘The pain was a mix of a constant dull ache and every time I took a step it was a sharp shooting pain going down my leg.’<\/p>\n

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Skye was experiencing excruciating pain but still wasn’t being taken seriously by doctors (Picture: Kennedy News & Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After visiting the GP, she was told her symptoms were most likely due to sciatica.<\/p>\n

However, just hours later, the pain was becoming unbearable, and Skye’s parents called 111, but she was again told it was the common ailment.<\/p>\n

By the following morning Skye’s pain had increased even further: ‘The pain was not just when I moved anyway, it was constant and pulsating down my left leg and up my back.’<\/p>\n

She was in so much pain, she says she ‘thought it would be easier to just die.’<\/p>\n

Desperate, her parents eventually called 999, and she was rushed to hospital – but doctors still weren’t convinced she was seriously unwell.<\/p>\n

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And snowboarding! (Picture: Kennedy News & Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘At the end of the first day, the doctor came in and said it was time to leave as the scans were fine,’ she says. <\/p>\n

‘It’s terrifying to think that I could have gone home. They said I couldn’t be there for back pain and I was being dramatic,’ Skye recalled.<\/p>\n

Refusing to leave, Skye wasadmitted onto a ward for pain management. It was there that she developed a fever – a more common symptom of sepsis – and a subsequent MRI scan revealed septic arthritis in her pelvis and hip (a localised joint infection), which developed into full-body sepsis<\/strong>, which has a mortality rate of 20%.<\/p>\n

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It took Skye’s family advocating for her to finally get an accurate diagnosis (Picture: Kennedy News & Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Skye noted: ‘I was on the first ward for about four or five days before they started to realise it was sepsis<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

‘My mum and dad pushed for another scan and they then did a much more in-depth MRI on my hip and pelvis. This is when they realised the sepsis was also in my joints, which is why I was in so much pain.’<\/p>\n

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