cancer after complaining of symptoms for five years. Kay Richards, 40, claims she was made to believe her symptoms, including body aches, weight loss and a persistent sore throat, were due to severe health anxiety and depression and was referred for counselling by her doctor at the Charleston Surgery in Paisley.
The single mum-of-one, from Paisley, said she knew something was not right in her body for several years and was desperate to get to the bottom of what was making her feel so poorly.
She added: "I knew it wasn't anxiety. Every day I felt so bad. I couldn't have possibly been making my symptoms up. I couldn't get out of bed in the morning until I took my painkillers.
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