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She wasn't too worried, until she woke that night in agony. 'My face was burning - it felt like someone had thrown acid over it,' she says. 'Over the next 48 hours I also developed flu-like symptoms, vomiting and diarrhoea, felt disorientated and developed redness on my cheeks and neck.'
Horrified, she returned to the clinic where, she says, she was told the problem was probably a very rare allergic inflammatory reaction. She was given a course of steroids and antibiotics, but the symptoms persisted.
Then, only a week before her £6,000 wedding ceremony, the vision in her right eye became blurred and she rushed to her GP. The doctor suggested it might subside by the time she had completed the course of antibiotics and steroids in five further days.
But nothing improved. 'My longed-for wedding day was overshadowed by the fact I was so ill,' she says. 'The night after, my sister had booked us into a hotel as a gift, but instead my husband had to take me to Chelmsford A&E because I couldn't see properly out of my right eye.'