My Cyst Story
My life with cysts started with a bout of mild food poisoning: I had been to a baby shower and eaten way too many cocktail sausages! After a very uncomfortable evening with my new boyfriend round, and a coffee the next morning, I realised that I should give dairy (and sausages!) a miss for a while. So I moved over to soya milk, knowing little about soy at the time. Given the fact Starbucks served it, I thought it was fine to drink one or two soya lattes each day. Fast forward a year and a half, I was over a stone heavier with growing intensity of period pains. Now I reckon I tolerated bad period pains for over two years and, while I did that, all my efforts for weight loss fell flat on their face. How my cyst came to light was that after the first year of period pain and weight gain, I decided to get a personal trainer. One in my cheap gym but at £40 a session I thought it would be a good place to start. This experience was the start of me questioning if what I was be...
