An NHS healthcare assistant who successfully shed six stone on Mounjaro has said rising costs of the medication will mean she’ll have to undertake additional shifts. Carly Stokes, 40, from Colchester, Essex, reached a peak weight of 14 stone (88.9kg) in 2021. Standing at 5ft 2in, she attributed this to early menopause, which triggered profound low moods and emotional eating, leading to bingeing that left her feeling "disgusting". The mother-of-two, to Penny, nine, and Megan, 15, described having...

A polyamorous quad who met through online gaming have said their relationship is not the “unlimited sex fest” many assume and they hope to one day legally marry.

Tiffani Nicole, 29, Jiselle Alexa, 23, Hammy Kendra, 29, and Raymond Anthony, 34, met on Twitch in 2020, bonding over their shared love of gaming and their friendship quickly grew through constant messaging, virtual movie nights and video calls.

In 2021, Tiffani, who works in debt and litigation, suggested their dynamic resembled a polyamorous quad – a romantic relationship involving four people – and even though none of them had experienced one before, the idea “made sense” to them.

A man with terminal brain cancer says it has become his "purpose in life" to break the world record for the most money raised by a marathon runner.Iain Ward, 36, from Streatham in south London, was diagnosed with glioblastoma - an aggressive form of brain tumour – in 2020 after it was spotted during an MRI scan for a medical trial the previous year.The content creator, who has more than 14 million social media followers, has already raised more than £350,000 for charity. He now hopes to surpass...

A man spent £36,000 on surgery to break his legs and make him taller after he reckoned that his arms were 'too long' for his body.36-year-old PhD student Irakli Archvadze stopped growing when he was 15, ending up at the incredibly respectable height of 5'7 (170cm), a height he shared with the likes of Tom Cruise, James McAvoy and your humble author.However, the Georgian (the country, not the US state) bloke ended up getting an arm span of 181cm (5'11) leaving him thinking that his body was laggi...

A woman who was diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer at 25 after delaying a routine smear test initially believed her symptoms were linked to her newly fitted copper coil.Jasmin McKee, now 26, from Southampton, Hampshire, said she began experiencing lower back pain and bleeding after sex in 2023.Despite her concerns, she delayed attending her cervical screening until March 2024, admitting she was put off by "horror stories online".Five weeks later, she was told she was HPV positive with a...

An intersex activist has revealed their agony at growing up feeling like an 'alien' - which led them to self harm at the age of eight. John Junior, a mental health campaigner from Manchester, said they felt misunderstood and 'different' throughout their childhood. John, 36, who uses they/them pronouns, was diagnosed with Klinefelter sy...