Walking out of the Tube station into the busy street in London’s Covent Garden, Vikie Shanks took a sharp breath as a wave of discomfort flooded over her.
She’d been suffering from bouts of what she’d assumed was indigestion for a couple of weeks, each one more uncomfortable than the last, but this one stopped her in her tracks.
‘Up until that point it had been a mere inconvenience, but this time, along with the pain in the upper part of my torso, I felt really unwell,’ recalls Vikie, from Kenilworth, Warwickshire. ‘I had to sit down on the pavement for about 20 minutes while the feeling passed.’
