Woman's 'break up' tummy ache turns out to be ovarian cancer

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A woman who put her stomach ache down to the "anxiety" of her break-up was diagnosed with ovarian cancer - aged 19.  Storm Reveley, 22, had just split from her ex-partner when she started suddenly experiencing stomach pains.  At first she put down her pain and loss of appetite down the "anxiety" because of the break-up before trying to cut out dairy in case she was lactose intolerant.  But when Storm started to get bloated, feel lightheaded, experiencing painful bladder and abnormal bowel movements she went to see her doctor.  They originally thought she might have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) but told her to come back if her pain continued.

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00:00They then thought that it could be inflammatory bowel disease, I think it was, and they sent

00:23me, referred me for a colonoscopy. In the meantime, I had gotten a lot worse, the pain

00:31was getting a lot worse as well. When I was at college, I got really severe abdominal

00:37pain and it basically caused me to almost pass out with this pain. Because it was COVID,

00:45it was the first time that anyone had actually felt my tummy to see if they could feel anything,

00:50but the lady felt my tummy and she said that she could feel a mass in my stomach.

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