Did he seriously think I'd only just noticed this obvious asymmetry?' Pictured left: Musician Alienna Nova is another whose crippling pain was repeatedly ignored by male doctors - in her case for 15 years, and pictured right, Khushboo Hirani, an actress from North London, was experiencing so much abdominal pain that she 'struggled to walk' when she was dismissed by a male doctor in 2019.ĭramatic videos of people undertaking DIY 'detoxes' and cleanses have racked up over 650million views on the platform.

I had my reconstruction surgery four months before. Slowly, as if to an idiotic child, he explained that my plastic surgeon must have put in a much bigger implant on one side 'in case it shrank when you were having radiotherapy'. But, after a cursory examination, the doctor told me I was mistaken. It hurt, and my skin was red and inflamed so I called the hospital and was given an urgent appointment.

A year ago, one side of my reconstructed chest swelled up dramatically. She says: 'My treatment so far has included eight rounds of chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, reconstruction with implants and 16 sessions of radiotherapy, all of which has left with me with complications.

In September 2021, London-based Leah Hardy (pictured centre) was diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of breast cancer that had already spread to the lymph nodes under her arm.

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