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How the stoma bag I’d been dreading changed my life forever

Emma Huntley, 25, who lives in Carmarthen, Wales, was in agony from ulcerative colitis.

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Woman who got a stoma bag at 25 says it has given her back her life

Emma Huntley was in agony from ulcerative colitis before she got the bag

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Mum whose eczema was so bad she didn’t leave the house shares ‘unbelievable’ cure she found on YouTube

Lisa Dispirito, 54, from Bideford, Devon, had always had clear skin and thought she was allergic to her new perfume at first.

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Woman who suffered crippling anxiety cured after life-changing holiday

Clare White, 39, from Benfleet, Essex, says she would hide away in the toilets when an attack struck at work.

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Dumpster-diving mum reveals how she makes meals for 30p per person

Tess Bolton-Gould keeps her weekly shop for her family of four to £40

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Man credits diet change and £19.99 skin cream for treating his psoriasis

Scot Cunningham says he became a ‘hermit’ after suffering from the skin condition

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‘Life is short’: Couple quit the rat race to travel Europe in a $7,000 campervan

Alice Ballard, 26, and Kieran Field, 27, originally from Oxford, have covered 25,000 miles across 16 countries so far

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Teacher ‘fitter than ever’ after routine blood test reveals ‘silent killer’ disease

Charlotte Douglas, a 25-year-old secondary school science teacher from Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, was saved after a kidney transplant from her mother

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Paralysed nappy-wearing cat thrives after owner adopts her from shelter

Aoife’s owner Sabrina de Matteo, 45, of Los Angeles says her pet is happy and her “life has worth”.

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Man hopes to use stem cells from newborn son to treat Crohn’s disease

Ryan Clarke, 29, from Doncaster wants to fly to Mexico or Switzerland for the treatment

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Teaching assistant diagnosed with bowel cancer at 22 reveals three symptoms people of all ages should know

Cambridgeshire teaching assistant Sophie Anderson was just 22 when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer after first showing symptoms at the age of 18

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Woman celebrates 106th birthday with naked waiter and glass of bubbly: ‘Never seen anything like it’

Nora Shaw, of Lincoln, has lived through two world wars, two global pandemics and 20 Prime Ministers, but had never seen a butler in the buff before

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Woman with disorder that causes her to go toilet ‘8 times before work’ climbs Everest

‘The altitude sickness took over and we were all rushing to the loo constantly – it wasn’t just me!’ Samantha Rose said

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‘I felt I deserved it’: Nurse’s agony highlights the ‘slow spiral’ of domestic violence

West Midlands mother Aimee Eaton, 35, saw her ex Arran Smith, 31, jailed for five years 10 months for charges including ABH

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“I’m alive and for me that’s a plus”: Fit and healthy lawyer ‘dies nine times’ in his sleep

When West Midlands woman Naomi Qureshi, 53, woke to her husband Mason, 54, snoring she had no idea it was a sign of an undiagnosed heart condition

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‘It took over my life’: Woman speaks out on rare condition that saw her pull her own hair out for 18 years

Rosie Myers, 30, of Hampshire, conquers the hair pulling condition trichotillomania and launches ethical haircare brand ‘nope’ with her girlfriend

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Woman left stranded with a broken back after falling from a horse is rescued thanks to geography app

Rachel Moyes, 41, from Midlothian, Scotland, was in an isolated spot and couldn’t say where she was when she called for an ambulance

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Renter spends £4.5K on Airbnb in two months after landlords refuse to house her dog

Now living with her mother in Somerset, when Kirsty Hunt, 36, faced redundancy and losing her flat, she could not find anywhere to rent with her pet dog

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Baby’s arm amputated at 10 days old after he suffered blood clots in the womb

Little Zack from Hull, East Yorkshire was born with a “bruised and blistered” left arm

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Woman hails £85 skincare kit as ‘miracle cure’ for her cystic acne

Jamie Graves, 42, from Bedfordshire was so self-conscious she avoided leaving the house for weeks

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Husband’s ‘world collapsed’ as wife dies months after misdiagnosis

Dumfries father Alan Johnstone, 37, says his daughter Sienna, three, has “infectious positivity” and “ridiculously curly hair” just like her late mother, Anneka

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Plucky 11-year-old aims for Paralympic glory as a swimmer just 15 months after her left leg was amputated below the knee because of cancer

Sophia Houlston, of Essex, was just nine in 2020 when a golf ball sized lump appeared on her left foot which was later found to be cancer

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Mother who thought itchy hands were caused by cleaning product given months to live

London nursery manager Maria Barry, 58, was horrified to discover truth behind chronic symptom

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Pub manager puts ‘pounding headaches’ down to his hectic lifestyle before brain tumour diagnosis

Ben Wilson, 36, from Ackworth, West Yorkshire only realised something was wrong when he was furloughed by Covid and his headaches continued

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Police officer’s ‘menopausal’ pains turn out to be rare cancer

Eve Lauder, 47, has raised 30K for charity, packed in holidays and even partied at Glastonbury while undergoing chemotherapy

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