Agonising period pain for Demi Leigh Wilson led to a shock diagnosis on the NHS app which she was not expecting, with the 24-year-old speaking out on her health
A woman suffering from agonising period pains opened her NHS app to find a shocking diagnosis.
Demi Leigh Wilson, 24, had been given a totally unrelated diagnosis by the app after she was encouraged to go to the doctors by customers at her business. Demi, who runs a Liverpool-based children’s entertainment business, Happily Ever After Princess, said she suffered from severe period pains for much of her life.
But when the pains intensified in 2023 she was told to go to the doctors by customers of her business. In October 2024, she received devastating news with a shock diagnosis being made.
Demi was told she had a brain tumour and has since spoken of the reaction she had to the news. Speaking to the ECHO, Demi said: “It did start off with my periods and it was getting to a point where I was very ill in bed. It felt like a wall when I was dragging myself to get up and go to do a job and it has taken over my life.
“I said to one of my customers once, ‘listen, I’m not well, I really need to dose myself up on painkillers, can I come half an hour later?’ and they said, that doesn’t sound normal, maybe go and get that checked. Others said the same thing. So I did take myself to the doctors at the beginning of the year and since then it’s just been scan after scan, blood after blood test.”
Demi was then told her bloods were abnormal and sent to the endocrinology department in a hospital which studies hormones. In October 2024, after having an MRI scan, she was told she had a brain tumour. She added: “I got sent for bloods which is standard procedure.
“My hormone levels kept coming back abnormal and they kept sending me back as they thought it was probably just a one-off but they kept coming back abnormal. They sent me back to endocrinology. At first, there were no issues but the consultant said, we’ll send you for the MRI.
“I went on my own, thinking I’d be okay. When I found out it was a brain tumour, I never got a call. I actually found out on the NHS app. I never thought in a million years it would be a brain tumour. It did shock me. I’ve got to start treatment for it which is coming up this month. I don’t know what my life’s going to look like to be honest. I don’t have a clue.”
Demi has since traced back when the pains first started for her, revealing: “My customers have supported me through it all I’ve got relationships with them like I have with my family, and they both gave me the push to go and get checked. They said you need to go to the doctors. If it wasn’t for my customers, then I probably would have never known, being honest. They’ve saved my life, pretty much.”
