You know your body better than anyone – but what happens when no one listens? Welcome to Ms Diagnosed: a HuffPost UK series uncovering the reality of medical gaslighting. With new stats showing that 8 in 10 of women have felt unheard by medical professionals, we’re sharing the stories of seven whose lives were nearly lost to the gap between their symptoms and a system that refused to listen. As the UK introduces Jess’s Rule – a new mandate for GPs to ‘rethink’ after a third visit – we’re exploring why the medical system is still failing women and how we can start to fix it.

The GP folded her hands between her thighs, spun round in her chair and gave me a deeply patronising look.

“I think you’re a bit stressed, love,” she said.

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing; I knew my symptoms were down to far more than stress.

As it turned out, I was right. I wasn’t stressed; I had a brain tumour on my pituitary gland, known as a macroprolactinoma. But despite going to my GP repeatedly with increasingly unnerving symptoms, I had been told – again and again – that I was just going through the menopause.

My symptoms started in March 2011, when I was around 34. I started getting really heavy periods that were soaking through pads, tampons and even my jeans; but then, all of a sudden, my periods completely stopped.

After around four months with no period, I went to my local GP surgery where I saw a nurse who told me to give it until six months before taking further action.

So I did; but in those next two months, my hair started falling out. Whenever I’d brush it, my hair would completely fill the hairbrush.

Then, things started getting really strange.

That summer, I went to Cardiff on the train – and for some reason, I couldn’t stop worrying about where to sit in case the train tipped over onto one side.

I was completely paranoid and panicking all the way there. I couldn’t understand how everyone else in that carriage had been able to sit down without a second thought.

It was bizarre; but I put it out of my mind and went back to the doctor’s about my missing periods.

I had a blood test to check if I’d gone through the menopause, and the results said no further action was required. I was adamant that that wasn’t the end of the story, though – periods don’t just stop for no reason – so I booked to see the GP.

“I think you’ve gone through the menopause,” she said. “Even though the blood test says you haven’t, it’s not always correct.”

So I went away; but then, I started having issues with my memory.

Once, for example, I was watching Barack Obama speaking on the news; and I could not remember his first name. I knew who he was; I just couldn’t place the name. I scrolled mentally through the alphabet; nothing. I Googled him and thought: “Oh. Barack. I’d never have come up with that.”

I went back to the GP again. That was when she told me I might be “a bit stressed”.

I had no choice but to leave again; but the memory issues continued, so I booked yet another appointment.

“You’ve been having a lot of appointments recently,” the receptionist said to me. “Are you sure they’re all necessary?”.

I started to feel like a pain. Then I thought: “No, I want to get to the bottom of this” – because by now, things were getting scary. I’d recently found a denim jacket in my wardrobe and had absolutely no idea where it had come from. My daughter told me I’d bought it when we’d gone shopping in Birmingham; but I didn’t even have any recollection of going to Birmingham.

So I went ahead and I booked my appointment. While I was driving there, I approached the roundabout; and I had absolutely no idea which way round to go.

I realised I wasn’t only a danger to myself. I was now a danger to others, too.

When I got to the GP’s office, she still seemed incredibly smug. I told her what had happened at the roundabout, and she said, “Well, this is just part of the menopause”.

“It’s not,’ I insisted. ’There is something else going on. I’m not exaggerating; this is not right. It’s not right. I want a second opinion.”

In the end, she agreed to refer me to a gynaecologist – because menopause was still suspected to be the root cause of my symptoms – and I paid to be fasttracked. By now, I was terrified.

I told the gynaecologist everything, and he asked me if I’d ever had a prolactin test.

“My memory isn’t very good – but I don’t think I’ve heard that word before,” I said, carefully.

He sent me to the blood unit that very day to get my prolactin levels checked; and then, at 8:00pm that night, he phoned me at home. “Your prolactin is very, very high; and I think that means you’ve possibly got a brain tumour,” he told me. “I’d like you to come back in for an MRI.”

I felt utterly numb – but gradually, it dawned on me that I was single and had a 14-year-old daughter. I’ve never felt so alone or scared.

The MRI confirmed the diagnosis; I had a brain tumour. The doctors suspected it was benign, but they couldn’t be sure until I had my first surgery to try and remove it.

That surgery confirmed that it was, indeed, benign; but ‘benign’ doesn’t mean ‘fine’. It means the tumour is less likely to progress around the body, but the tumour I have is still aggressive and life-limiting. My quality of life is not what I expected it to be at 49. I can’t do exercise; I can’t cook meals; I can’t drive; and I struggle to hold conversations for more than 30 minutes.

Once, I went to talk to my partner and all I could say was something about a swimming pool, which wasn’t what I meant to say at all.

I’m still so angry with that GP. If the tumour had been found sooner, it wouldn’t have grown so big – the type of tumour I have is aggressive and fast-growing. By now, it’s managed to spread itself further than my pituitary gland; including growing near an artery and my optic chiasm, which makes it much harder to remove.

I’ve had four surgeries, chemotherapy and radiotherapy (twice, ten years apart); but the tumour keeps re-growing, albeit a little slower since the chemotherapy. But I can always tell when that’s happening.

After the first surgery, my periods did come back; but then, two years later, they stopped again. Another time, my memory became very strange again; a third time, I experienced more hair loss; and most recently, I had extreme tiredness.

I’ve been told there is one more surgery they can try; but that surgery will make me blind in my right eye.

Equally, though, I now appreciate life so much more than I ever did before. Without the tumour, I never would have started my own business; and even though I went to a very dark place last year, after the chemotherapy, I still have hope. You never know what could be around the corner.

These days, I just want to raise awareness of both my condition and the need to advocate for ourselves. While most GPs are incredible – including my current GP – we know, intrinsically, if there’s something wrong in our bodies. We need that tenacity to say, if needed, ‘I need an MRI’, or ‘I need a second opinion’.

And if, like I did, you feel like a pain – remember, it doesn’t matter. You just need to push, push and push in order to get the answers you need.

For more information and support, visit The Pituitary Foundation.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s influence in Republican primary elections is about to get stress-tested.

A series of primaries in early May across deep-red territory in Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana all feature entrenched Republican officials fighting back against Trump-backed challengers, and early signs indicate Trump’s preferred candidates may not always have the upper hand. The results of the primaries could provide a stark indication of whether the president’s legendary sway over the Republican Party is fading as his popularity sinks.

The high-profile races include challenges to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), along with a promised revenge tour against GOP state senators in Indiana. All have committed supposed sins against Trump — Massie helped Democrats release the Epstein files, Cassidy voted to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, the state senators dared to defy his orders to redraw their state’s congressional map — and yet all have at least a fighting chance.

None are running on explicitly anti-Trump platforms, and all are taking pains to downplay their differences with the president, who remains broadly popular with Republican voters. But their victories could give other Republicans space to at least occasionally break with the president or distance themselves as they run for reelection in November, which would mark a sharp contrast from the peak of Trump’s power.

“There are people who support Trump who will be voting for me, because, frankly, they appreciate both of our roles,” Massie told HuffPost. “They don’t want a rubber stamp, and they appreciate that I might be the only dissenting vote occasionally, because you can have a favourable view of Trump and believe that 10% of the time he may be wrong.”

One Republican strategist, requesting anonymity to speak frankly about the president, acknowledged Trump’s sway has diminished but said he was still by far the party’s most powerful figure.

“You obviously want the president’s endorsement, but at this point you might want it as much for the money that comes with it than the endorsement itself,” the strategist said, pointing to Trump’s well-funded allied super PAC, MAGA, Inc. “A big chunk of voters will still say ‘how high?’ when he says ‘jump.’ But that group’s smaller than it was before the Epstein files and Iran.”

Jesse Hunt, another Republican strategist, noted now-President Trump has far less time to dedicate to swaying voters than then-candidate Trump did in 2022 and 2024.

“Saying ‘Donald Trump supports XYZ or this or that’ in an ad is helpful, but when he’s the difference maker is when he throws his full force of his ability to drive media attention at a given subject,” Hunt said. “He’s leading the country. He has less time to do that for downballot races. That’s the reality of governing, especially when you’re not running for reelection.”

Trump’s approval rating has hit new lows in recent polling. A Pew Research Center survey released Friday showed just 34% of registered voters approved of his job performance. But losses among people who backed him in 2024 seem to be accelerating: While 95% of them approved his job performance in January 2025, that number fell to 83% a year later and to just 78% today.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment. A Trump ally, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly, said it was possible Trump could travel to Kentucky and Louisiana before the races there to make renewed pushes for his favorite candidates.

And Trump dove into a different race in Kentucky on Friday night, endorsing Rep. Andy Barr to replace Mitch McConnell in the Senate after arranging for another candidate in the race, businessman Nate Morris, to take an ambassadorial position.

One candidate who has benefited from a Trump-directed surge in cash is Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL and Massie’s Trump-backed challenger. Trump-allied and pro-Israel groups have poured more than $10 million into ads attacking Massie and boosting Gallrein ahead of the May 19 primaries. But limited public polling has shown Massie with a small lead in the district and a super PAC backing him has been able to respond with more than $3 million of its own advertising.

And part of Massie’s strategy is to portray himself as more of a Trump ally than as a Trump critic, even if his support for releasing the Epstein files and opposition to administration priorities often draws headlines. In one ad, Massie goes direct to camera to tick off a huge list of conservative priorities he shared with Trump.

“President Trump and I have a whole lot more to get done together,” Massie says over an image of him walking alongside an AI-generated elephant wearing a MAGA hat.

In Indiana, Trump wants revenge against eight state senators who defied his demand that they redraw the state’s congressional map to eliminate Democratic seats ahead of November’s midterm elections. Trump recruited a first-term city councilman named Blake Fiechter to go up against state Sen. Travis Holdman, the highest-ranking member of the Indiana legislature up for reelection.

After receiving Trump’s endorsement in January, Fiechter announced in February that he was ending his campaign, saying it was too hard. Then he got back in the race and joined other Trump-backed challengers in a visit to the White House and a meeting with Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), one of Trump’s more enthusiastic supporters on Capitol Hill. One Republican county chairman suggested to the Indiana Capital Chronicle that voters don’t care enough about redistricting to throw Holdman overboard.

“There are lots of issues that motivate the voters in Indiana, but I would bet my Starbucks card that he loses,” Banks told HuffPost.

With no public polling of the races, it’s difficult to know who might be winning. Banks and Gov. Mike Braun, however, have dedicated millions of dollars toward groups airing attack ads and sending mailers attacking the incumbents and supporting Trump-backed candidates.

Cassidy, one of the Republican senators who voted to convict Trump at his 2021 impeachment trial, is locked in a three-way Republican primary against Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) and former Rep. John Fleming (R-La.). Letlow has Trump’s endorsement, but in polling, it’s Fleming, who also served in multiple roles during the first Trump administration, who has the lead.

“People know that I worked in the Trump administration for four years. They know my voting record in the House of Representatives for eight years,” Fleming told HuffPost, noting he was a co-founder of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus.

“They see me far more in alignment with President Trump, that I’m much more the prototypical MAGA candidate,” Fleming said. “The comments I get over and over again is, ‘We love Trump, and we 100% support his agenda, but in this case, he endorsed the wrong candidate.’”

Cassidy has run ads highlighting his relationship with Trump, even though Trump has endorsed one of his opponents. But Cassidy’s most recent ad, released last week, doesn’t mention the president, instead bashing former President Joe Biden and saying Cassidy saved Louisiana jobs.

In a brief interview in a Senate hallway, Cassidy told HuffPost he didn’t think the president’s endorsement would determine the outcome of the race.

“I think I’m going to win,” he said. “I deliver for Louisiana. I worked really hard for my state. People want to have someone who’s delivered for their state.”

An Emerson College Polling/KLFY News 10 survey released this week showed Cassidy in third place with 21% support among Louisiana Republican primary voters, compared to 27% for Letlow and 28% for Fleming. A Quantus Insights poll in February showed Fleming with 34%, Letlow with 25% and Cassidy at 20%.

Fleming said Cassidy’s impeachment vote was a “betrayal,” and he said Letlow has had problems with questionable stock trades while in office, as well as with her past support for diversity, equity and inclusion when she served as an administrator at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

“When I was there, DEI was presented to us as a tool that would help students actually achieve the American dream … I quickly witnessed it was hijacked by the radical left, turned into indoctrination of our students, even Marxism,” Letlow told a Louisiana TV station in an interview posted this week.

Fleming said his campaign’s polling shows Louisiana Republicans still support the president and that his own success, even without Trump’s endorsement, doesn’t mean the president’s star is fading.

“This in no way reflects upon the president,” he said.

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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, especially when it comes to gardening.

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how everything from old washing-up bowls to disused pans and even melon rinds can keep your garden biodiverse, well-watered, and lower on slugs.

It turns out the humble toilet roll tube has its place in your backyard, too.

Here are four of its uses:

“Toilet rolls make great eco-friendly plant pots,” gardening pro Simon Akeroyd shared on his Instagram. They’re great for seedling starter pots: just cut them in half across the middle.

Then, take one half of the tube and pinch its sides so it turns into a cuboid (basically, “square it off”).

Once that’s done, cut slits about one to two centimetres into each of the four new creases from one end of your tube half.

Fold these flaps together, ensuring they slightly overlap, then tuck your last flap into the others. Repeat with as many tube halves as you need.

When stood up in a tray, they should act as perfect little seedling pots that you can fill with soil and seeds. But beware, Akeroyd explained: “Make sure you plant them so none of the cardboard is above ground.

“Otherwise, the top of the cardboard acts like a moisture wick, sucking out all the moisture, resulting in dead, dried-out plants.”

The BBC said that all you need to make a cheap, easy bird feeder is suet or peanut butter, an empty loo roll tube, and about 30cm of string, alongside scissors, a plate, and some birdseed.

Pour some birdseed on your plate, “slather” the outside of the cardboard tube with suet or peanut butter, and then roll it in the seeds (a bit like the world’s most unappetising truffle).

Once the tube is well-coated, thread the string through the tube and hang it in your garden.

A caveat, though: the RSPB has discouraged feeding birds peanuts or seeds from 1 May to 31 October, as that can lead to too many birds gathering in one place, potentially spreading diseases like trichomonosis.

“It’s okay to keep offering small amounts of mealworms, fat balls, or suet year-round,” they added, but it’s best to keep this particular project on hold until winter.

Speaking to Martha Stewart’s site, Audrey King, garden centre specialist at Kent Greenhouse & Gardens, said that worms love “nibbling” on the cardboard.

The Royal Horticultural Society agreed that a “limited” amount of cardboard, newspaper, and shredded office paper makes a great meal for the creatures, who help to aerate soil.

Cut them into thin rings or small pieces and add them to the top 10cm of your soil before watering, King added.

Both she and the RHS said this only applies to plain cardboard. “No plastic coatings, dyes, or glossy finishes,” King said. “Just the simple brown kind. The environment will thank you.”

King also shared she likes to use old cardboard toilet paper tubes as “plant collars” to deter pests.

She cuts them along their lengths and then places them, standing up, over the stem of a young or delicate plant. King pushes the soil to keep them upright.

“I like to think of it as a little cardboard moat that keeps the bad guys out until your plant is strong enough to stand up for itself,” she said, though of course this only works for pests that eat the stem of your plants.

US President Donald Trump on Friday told Congress the Iran war has ended.

In letters to top Republicans in the House and Senate, Trump said a weekslong ceasefire remains in place and that there’s been no more fighting.

“There has been no exchange of fire between United States Forces and Iran since April 7, 2026. The hostilities that began on February 28, 2026, have terminated,” Trump said in letters to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

At the same time, Trump said the US military “continues to update its force posture” in the region in response to Iranian threats. He told reporters on Friday the US Navy is maintaining a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

The letter is less about the war actually changing than the Trump administration trying to comply with the War Powers Resolution, a 1973 law that requires hostilities to cease within 60 days if Congress hasn’t authorised the use of force. Several Republicans in the House and Senate have warned about the 60-day deadline while voting against Democrats’ repeated attempts to end the war. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Thursday became the second Senate Republican to vote for an antiwar resolution as the deadline approached.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Friday called the letter “bullshit” in a post on social media.

“This is an illegal war and every day Republicans remain complicit and allow it to continue is another day lives are endangered, chaos erupts, and prices increase, all while Americans foot the bill,” Schumer said.

Trump’s main audience is likely Republicans. It’s unclear how his claim that the war has ended will go over if the US maintains a naval blockade. The president said earlier Friday that the blockade is still on.

“We’re on our way to another victory, a big victory, and I don’t think that it’s constitutional what they’re asking for,” Trump said, referring to lawmakers’ demands Trump consult Congress on the war.

“These are not patriotic people that are asking, you know, when they say— even the losers, even the ones that say all the wrong things, admit that it’s been amazing what we’ve done,” Trump told reporters on Friday. “The strait is totally shut down. It’s flawless. It’s totally 100% shut down now.”

Under international law, a naval blockade is an act of war.

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Donald Trump made a compelling case on Friday as to why people running for president or vice president should be required to take a cognitive exam similar to the ones he’s previously taken and claimed to have passed with flying colors.

In the process, he also proved, once again, that irony is dead.

The president was speaking to seniors living in The Villages, a prominent Florida retirement community, when he explained the pressing need to have the mental acuity of the nation’s future chief executives examined in detail.

And his reason seemed destined to set him up for brutal internet mockery.

“I mean, you get a guy who gets in there, he’s got a good line of crap. He gets in, and all of a sudden, you’re stuck with a man who’s a moron,” Trump said. “This is not good.”

Earlier in his speech, Trump went into great detail about his own cognitive testing, which was meant to find signs of cognitive dysfunction and possible dementia, and suggested that not everyone would be able to handle it as well as he did.

“I took three of them, aced all of them, by the way,” he said of the tests before bragging that he was “the only president to take a cognitive test,” something he claimed former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden could never pass.

“You know, the first question is very easy. It’s a lion, a giraffe, a bear and a shark. They say, ‘Which one is the bear?’” he explained before adding that the last 10 questions on the 30-question test were challenging.

“A lot of you wouldn’t have been able to answer those 10 questions,” he told his audience.

Many people on social media felt compelled to go into full snark mode over the president’s “moron” comment.

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It starts before the baby is even born: Where will you give birth? Who will be in attendance? Bottle or breast? Co-sleeper or crib? The choices you have to make accumulate, forming a huge, intimidating snowball that threatens to flatten you. The potential consequences of each decision weigh heavily, as they are no longer simply about your own preferences, but your child’s future.

The average person makes more than 35,000 decisions each day, Dr. Lisa MacLean, chief wellness officer at Henry Ford Health in Michigan, told HuffPost. “And each decision — no matter how small — requires time and energy,” she said.

If you find yourself so overwhelmed by the sheer number of choices you have to make on a given day that you feel unable to make even one more decision, you may be experiencing what is known as “decision fatigue” ― though it can be tricky to separate this phenomenon from the general stress of parenting.

Here is what you need to know about decision fatigue, and some tips on how to minimise its impact in your life.

Studies have shown that people’s capacity to make thoughtful decisions diminishes as the day wears on. A 2011 study involving an Israeli parole board found that board members were more likely to grant parole requests in the morning, and after breaks for food. The theory is that people’s minds expend energy, like a muscle, when they make decisions, and that after a lot of decisions, an exhausted mind works less effectively. In the case of the parole board members, when they were hungry or tired, they seemed to skew toward the “safe,” or default choice of keeping the prisoners incarcerated.

“Decision fatigue occurs when decision making becomes increasingly difficult,” MacLean said. “Essentially you make so many decisions that you become drained.”

The result can be an inability to decide — decision or choice “paralysis.” People may defer to a default option, like the members of the Israeli parole board, or they may start to make choices impulsively. Others might procrastinate or attempt to avoid making a decision at all, MacLean said.

If you’re stymied by deciding what to make for dinner, it’s possible that decision fatigue is to blame.

“Just think about the number of decisions a parent makes in the morning alone before their children [go to] school. They then work all day — both within and often outside the home and then pivot back to trying to effectively parent after a full day’s work,” MacLean said, noting that this stress may be multiplied for single parents.

“You might notice that your own tank is on E before your kids even get home from school,” she continued.

But the stress you’re experiencing may not simply be a product of the quantity of decisions you’re making.

“While I believe that the mind can fatigue, I don’t think this is always due to the specific number of choices made or the specific time of day,” Eva M. Krockow, professor of psychology at the University of Leicester, told HuffPost.

Other factors, she explained, can also make decision-making difficult. “When it comes to parenting, there are lots of different sources of information out there, including information on internet forums and social media. Some of this information is conflicting. It’s a hugely complex cognitive task to make sense of all this information and reach decisions around parenting styles, school choices or even food choices.”

Given these challenges, it’s not surprising for “parents to feel overwhelmed and paralysed,” Krockow continued.

In other words, if you’re struggling with a choice, it may be that the number of decisions you’ve already made that day is to blame — but it might also just be a tricky decision. No amount of minimising choices throughout the day will help you decide what to do about child care when all of the options are too expensive, for example.

You can’t always make the work of parenting any easier, but you can sometimes give your brain a break by limiting the number of choices you have to make each day, or trying to schedule them strategically.

Krockow and MacLean made the following suggestions:

1. Set up routines. “Creating routines will allow you to move throughout your day without having to think about a decision,” MacLean said. You might wake up at the same time every day, eat the same breakfast every day, exercise and go to bed at the same time every day, for example.
2. Make big decisions in the morning, or at the time that’s best for you. Since the research shows that our decision-making capacity diminishes as the day goes on, it makes sense for most of us to hold off on big decisions until the morning. But some people might find that they are too tired in the morning, and another time of day is best for them. “It’s important to understand personal decision tendencies and realise when one’s own willpower is at its lowest – this is likely to be different for different people,” Krockow said.
3. Use a decision-making strategy. “One common heuristic would be to rely on ‘social feedback’ or reputation,” Krockow explained. If choosing a school, for example, you’d rely on the word of trusted parents instead of reports and rankings online. You can simplify your process “by focusing on a number of key criteria rather than trying to weigh up lots of different advantages and disadvantages,” she said.
4. Limit the number of choices. This is a great strategy for helping kids make decisions — and managing their behaviour. If you’re serving breakfast, instead of saying, “What do you want to eat?” you might say, “Would you like cereal or a bagel?” Instead of asking what they want to do (knowing it probably involves an iPad) you could say, “Would you like to play a game or colour now?” You can use this strategy to make your own life simpler, too. MacLean recalled that her son liked to eat salami and cheese, so that’s what she gave him for his lunch. “He ate salami and cheese every day of high school! It made it easier for me and cut down on the number of decisions I had to make.”
5. Plan in advance. This can look like a grocery list or a weekly meal plan, and can also involve your kids. They can lay out their school clothes, set the table for breakfast or pack up their lunches the night before, for example.
6. Delegate when possible. In MacLean’s family, her husband and children are in charge of making dinner one night per week. “Thursday is my day off from making dinner. They can make anything and I don’t complain. We eat pizza a lot on Thursdays, but it is so freeing to think to myself, ‘It’s Thursday, I don’t have to decide what to make for dinner.’”
7. Don’t neglect your own self-care. If you’re feeling worn out, decision-making will feel harder. “Get enough sleep, avoid skipping meals, get sunshine, move your body, use social media in a thoughtful but limited way,” MacLean advised.
8. Go easy on yourself. Remember that parenting is hard, and not everything can be made easier with a hack. “One of the best things we can do is give ourselves — and others — the benefit of the doubt,” MacLean said. “We’re doing the best we can, and we can’t ask for much more. Take a deep breath when you need it. Recognize you don’t have all the answers.”

The original version of this story was published on HuffPost at an earlier date.