A mother claims she was misdiagnosed with postnatal depression instead of cancer for three years even though she visited doctors over 20 times.
Claire Thompson, 38, of Conway, Wales was believed to have post natal depression after complaining of low mood and bloating after the birth of her daughter, Eirwen, now six, in 2013.
She dismissed her worries after trusting experts, until she started suffering with periods so heavy she had to take a spare set of clothes to work every day.
Visiting A&E in fear she would 'bleed to death,' Mrs Thompson was finally referred for further tests as her bloated stomach made her appear seven months pregnant.
Doctors eventually detected a 10cm mass on her left ovary and fallopian tube but Mrs Thompson claims they reassured her that it was likely to be a cyst.
Believing it was more sinister, Mrs Thompson insisted she had surgery in April 2016, which is when doctors discovered she had, in fact, ovarian cancer.
The civil servant underwent a full hysterectomy to save her life six weeks later, with the removal of three tumours.
She said: 'I wanted to scream from the rooftops, "I have been telling you this for years, why didn't you listen?"'
Claire Thompson, 38, from Conway, Wales, claims she was misdiagnosed with postnatal depression instead of cancer for three years even though she visited doctors over 20 times
Mrs Thompson, pictured with her husband, Mark, 38, was believed to have post natal depression after complaining of low mood and bloating after the birth of her daughter, Eirwen, now six
Mrs Thompson, a civil servant, underwent a full hysterectomy to save her life in 2016, with the removal of three tumours when doctors finally discovered she had ovarian cancer
Mrs Thompson is now sharing her
