article_snippet: her added: 'It took a long time for me to be diagnosed
article_snippet: and I had to wait over six months to see a leading specialist. '
article_snippet: In this time I was prescribed steroid tablets
article_snippet: but disastrously they made me put on six stone in a really short space of time. '
article_snippet: I was unrecognisable and developed two near fatal conditions on top of everything else.'