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Scots mum's tiredness and headaches during pregnancy turn out to be rare form of heart failure

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pregnancy which has left her on daily medication twelve years on. Carol Sunnucks gave birth to her son Kai in 2008 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley - but after the delivery she found out she had been suffering from a deadly heart condition.

The condition, called peripartum cardiomyopathy, affects just eight women in Scotland a year - but can be fatal if it goes undiagnosed.Now the 51-year-old wants to raise awareness of her condition after she believes several medical professionals missed the warning signs. "I had a really horrible pregnancy.

At five months my ankles swelled up, I'm normally a shoe size five and had to wear an eight," Carol told Edinburgh Live. "I was going to the hospital every week because I had suffered an.

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