A young woman who was suffering from agonising stomach pain was told it was "probably just a stomach bug" until an emergency scan was performed by doctors revealing a life-threatening condition.
19-year-old Sophie Dixon began to experience "crippling pain" and cramping at home on November 7 and with the pain worsening took herself to Whiston Hospital's Acccident and Emergency department the following day.
At first she thought it was an upset stomach but the pain became "absolutely unbearable" so she could feel something was very wrong.
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Sophie, who lives in St Helens, told the Liverpool ECHO : "It started on November 7, late in the evening - I
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