'My son was suffering with headaches and wanted to sleep all the time... a trip to Specsavers saved his life'

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A mum who became concerned when her teenage son started suffering with headaches and 'wanted to sleep all the time' has said a last minute trip to Specsavers has 'saved his life.' Leionie Power, 33, from Hyde, said she first noticed a change in her son Archie around a year ago when he stopped wanting to go to school and would spend hours in bed, telling her he was 'exhausted all the time'.

For 12 months before that he had suffered with bouts of severe headaches - however Leionie was not initially concerned about them due to how infrequent they were, putting it down to hormones, lack of sleep and looking at screens. READ MORE Horror as girl, 12, rushed into hospital and put in induced coma after vaping left her 'weak' READ MORE 'I felt like I was on trial trying to get sickness benefits - I almost lost everything' It was when she decided to take him for an eye test at Specsavers in August and get a last minute appointment that the sinister answers behind Archie's behavioural changes became clear. "I noticed he had started with headaches here and there, but was always something you could put down to something else.

I'd tell him to drink more water or get off the computer or get an early night, as you do as a mum," Leionie told the M.E.N. "He would have one, and then six weeks would go by.

They weren't frequent enough to be concerned at first. "Then in the last year we noticed a change. He loves school, yet all of a sudden he had no time for it, he was disrespectful and we were getting called in a lot.