A 22-year-old woman was told to "go to hospital now" by a concerned eye doctor after returning home from her holiday with an "pulsing" headache which turned out to be cancer. Mel Kelly was living an active life as a self-employed sports coach and karate teacher with a black belt when she began suffering with migraines in September and was given medication for a sinus infection to treat it.
Blood test results showed that Mel, from New Ferry near Liverpool, had high levels of prolactin, which could indicate a brain tumour but to her relief, a follow up test came back as normal. However, during her holiday to Lanzarote, she said the headache continued and she began to experience pain at the back of her ear and lose her vision, the Liverpool ECHO reports.
She had put her symptoms partly down to her migraine medication and "burnout" as she assumed she just needed a good rest. However as time went on her condition worsened and Mel said she knew something wasn't right but insists the "doctors weren't listening" to her complaints.
