Woman with terrible period pain discovers horror diagnosis after opening the NHS app
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A woman suffering from agonising period pains opened her NHS app to find a shocking diagnosis. Demi Leigh Wilson, 24, had been given a totally unrelated diagnosis by the app after she was encouraged to go to the doctors by customers at her business. Demi, who runs a Liverpool-based children's entertainment business, Happily Ever After Princess, said she suffered from severe period pains for much of her life.
But when the pains intensified in 2023 she was told to go to the doctors by customers of her business. In October 2024, she received devastating news with a shock diagnosis being made. Demi was told she had a brain tumour and has since spoken of the reaction she had to the news. Speaking to the ECHO, Demi said: "It did start off with my periods and it was getting to a point where I was very ill in bed. It felt like a wall when I was dragging myself to get up and go to do a job and it has taken over my life.
"I said to one of my customers once, 'listen, I’m not well, I really need to dose myself up on painkillers, can I come half an hour later?' and they said, that doesn’t sound normal, maybe go and get that checked. Others said the same thing. So I did take myself to the doctors at the beginning of the year and since then it's just been scan after scan, blood after blood test.".
Demi was then told her bloods were abnormal and sent to the endocrinology department in a hospital which studies hormones. In October 2024, after having an MRI scan, she was told she had a brain tumour. She added: "I got sent for bloods which is standard procedure.
