Many of us are wary of using public loos – indeed, last year a survey of 2,000 people for a bathroom cleaning brand found that almost eight in ten of us would only venture into a public toilet if there […]
Crawling into bed to rest her painful left toe, Mel Gardener winced as she covered herself with a cotton sheet. Even the touch of this light fabric was excruciating. ‘I’d never experienced anything like this before – a searing, burning,
Settling in to the dentist’s chair, Greg Hutton expected nothing more than a numb mouth and a little discomfort once his troublesome tooth had finally been removed. The former IT technician had gone in for a routine procedure, but it
Flopping on to the sofa, glass in hand, I’m waiting for my hard-earned gin and tonic to deliver a warm rebuttal to the stresses of the day. What it does instead is make me feel nauseous. Not in a run-for-cover-I’m-going-to-throw-up
Flora Blathwayt used to dread getting over-tired – because she knew that if she yawned, it would unleash sharp pain across her right jaw. Other simple actions such as chewing or brushing her teeth were also agony. Like an estimated
For 30 years Miranda Hart suffered from a debilitating mystery illness which, at its worst, left her feeling as if she was ‘wading through treacle’ and even bed-bound. The 51-year-old comedian and actor was initially told that her symptoms –
Dr Nick Norwitz is a man who knows his eggs. Baked, fried, devilled or scrambled, the former Oxford academic now Harvard medical student has enjoyed them in all manner of ways recently. After all, when you set yourself a target
