At fifty-five, Margaret looked in the mirror and barely recognised herself. It wasn’t just the lines around her eyes or the grey threading through her hair – those changes she’d expected and could accept. It was something deeper, a fundamental shift in how her face looked and felt that seemed to have happened almost overnight. […]
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When Lucy’s eczema first appeared during her university finals, everyone attributed it to stress. The angry, itchy patches on her hands and inner elbows seemed like an understandable response to exam pressure and too much coffee. But twenty years later, despite a successful career and relatively stable life, the eczema remained a constant, unpredictable companion.
Sarah’s teenage acne had supposedly ended with her teens, yet here she was at thirty-two, staring at her reflection in the Boots skincare aisle, wondering how her chin had suddenly erupted like a volcanic landscape. The spots weren’t like the ones she’d battled as a teenager – these were deeper, angrier, and seemed to appear
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Sophie’s five-year-old daughter Lily seemed to catch everything. Every nursery bug, every playground sniffle, every seasonal illness that swept through their area – Lily would inevitably come home with it. Sophie found herself in a constant state of low-level panic, armed with antibacterial wipes, vitamin drops, and a growing sense that she was somehow failing
Rachel’s diagnosis came after eighteen months of bewildering symptoms. First, it was the joint pain that seemed to migrate around her body – wrists one week, knees the next. Then came the crushing fatigue that made her feel like she was walking through treacle. Her GP ran test after test, each one coming back “normal”
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Emma felt it the moment she walked into the office lift on Monday morning – that familiar scratchy sensation at the back of her throat, the slight heaviness behind her eyes. Her heart sank. Not again. She’d just recovered from a nasty cold three weeks ago, and here was another one brewing. Her usual response
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Helen had tried everything. Her chronic neck pain, which started after a minor car accident three years earlier, had been resistant to every treatment her healthcare team could offer. Physiotherapy provided temporary relief. Anti-inflammatories helped marginally. The pain management specialist had exhausted his repertoire of injections and stronger medications. Everyone agreed there was nothing structurally
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