Mum diagnosed with stage 4 cancer after being told she was 'too young' to display symptoms
dailyrecord.co.ukA mum has been diagnosed with stage four cancer after being told she was 'too young' to be displaying symptoms.Jessica Sturgeon, 30, from Newtonabbey in Belfast, began experiencing stomach pain and was passing blood in 2021.
After putting off a colonoscopy, she was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer at the age of 28.The mum-of-two told our sister title, Belfast Live: "One day I was totally fine, and then the pain suddenly came on.
I was vomiting too, and had hot sweats, so my family rushed me to the doctors, who sent me to A&E, and it was originally thought that I had kidney stones, or a serious kidney infection."This went on until February 2022, and at that point, they were querying IBS or Crohn's Disease.
I was admitted to hospital and was there overnight, and I was given laxatives."I was in A&E about 20 times in a year, with the pains, and the tests showed inflammation in my bowel.
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