It was around my 18th birthday that I started to feel really unwell. I was lethargic, I had no energy and I felt like I was always sleeping. As someone who’d been a really active, sporty kid who was always bouncing around and played basketball every day after school, it was not only really hard to take, I just couldn’t work out what was going on.
“I was also putting on weight, which I just put down to my body
