A woman who was told her symptoms had minor causes is urging young people to persevere when seeking medical help, after learning she had a brain tumour.
Claudia Laird, from Burnley, was training as a nurse when she began experiencing extreme fatigue' and confusion - at one point walking into windows, thinking they were doors.
Then 24, she put her exhaustion down to working night shifts - with her friends calling her habit of lying-in lazy. But after a series of trips to the doctor put the symptoms down to everything from gastroenteritis to the contraceptive pill, a brain scan finally revealed the truth. “I used to sleep in until about 10 or 11 o’clock, and I remember my friends calling me lazy at the time," she said. “I thought I was just burning the candle at both ends because I was doing loads of night shifts on a really intense ward.
And that's maybe why for quite a while I didn't really think something may have been wrong.” READ MORE: 'I was living my childhood dream at New York Fashion Week - but then it turned into a nightmare' In January 2022, Claudia’s symptoms worsened as she experienced dizzy spells, a ringing noise in her ears and became regularly sick.
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