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Daily Mail
20 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Mother-of-five's agony trapped in Turkey after £3,500 boob job went wrong - meaning she could now lose one of her breasts
A nurse who had a boob job in Turkey is still stuck in the country seven weeks later - spending thousands to try and save her nipples and breast. Mother-of-five Chloe Roiser, 31, went under the knife in an Antalya hospital but she could now lose her entire breast. Chloe travelled to Turkey in April for the £3500 surgery but was forced to return at the end of May after removing her dressing which revealed a severe infection. She is currently stuck in Turkey having spent thousands more for accommodation as she gets treatment to fight severe infection, nipple necrosis and to save her breast. Chloe ignored warnings from her friends to undergo the surgery, which was meant to be a 'confidence boost'. She said: 'I never should have touched my body at all. We're never happy with our bodies. Now, I could potentially lose my entire breast. 'I researched different companies. There's only so much research you can do going abroad. 'Everyone warned me not to go but I thought I knew best. When you do research you don't expect something like this to happen, not something this bad. 'I booked it at the beginning of the year, flew out in April and went straight to the hospital. Had an X-ray, blood taken. Slept overnight and the next day, they took me to a private clinic.' The surgery on April 24 required an overnight stay, but Chloe didn't notice anything out of place. She said: 'It seemed to be okay. You don't know what to expect if you haven't had that done before. I was on strong painkillers, I was really, really sore. 'I had drains on my boobs I had to empty myself every day after surgery and I couldn't really see anything, there were bandages over it all. 'I had a course of antibiotics and painkillers for three days in the hotel they'd given us. We were stuck in the middle of nowhere and there were building works so I had to change hotels. 'That raised a bit of red flags, they should have moved me. I couldn't sleep and I just had surgery.' She says at a check-up four days later 'it all seemed fine and they re-dressed it for me'. Her final check-up a day later before returning to her home in Wymondham, Norfolk involved a filmed review by the clinic. She said: 'I had a camera in my face as soon as I got out the taxi. Obviously you can't give a review when my boobs aren't finished.' Doctors gave Chloe some paperwork about after-care and the former healthcare professional was cleared to return to the UK. She said: 'I followed all the aftercare. I have a nursing degree, I'm not silly, I know what I'm doing. They gave me all the bits and pieces I needed to redress and I did all the redressing. 'I did notice on the boob that's infected, the stitches looked like something was going on. 'The tape around it was slightly raised but you couldn't take it off so I couldn't see anything. And I had no feeling in my nipples, so I couldn't feel pain or anything.' When Chloe could take the tape off her breasts at the end of May, she realised 'the edge of my nipples were red and raised'. She said: 'There weren't major signs of infection. I was putting on cream they gave me and I sent them messages - they said just keep doing the cream..' But within a week, Chloe's breast was visibly infected. 'I got directly in touch with them,' she said. 'It's hard, England won't really touch them if it's plastic surgery. Doctors said it was an infection around the stitch area. They didn't say it was necrosis or anything. 'But my auntie, she's a beautician for 25 years. She was ringing me and said, that's necrosis, you need to get that seen, you could lose your whole nipple. 'I immediately booked flights back. I didn't know if it was an impact infection, I didn't know anything. 'I've got four kids to deal with at home, I'm trying to arrange care. My mum is retired, she's disabled looking after two of my sons. My son is pushing her around the supermarket in her wheelchair. 'I've had to pay for two lots of flights with my daughter and partner who were worried about me. It's not something I wanted to do on my own. 'When the doctors saw me, they had to give me six shots of antibiotics and four local anaesthetics directly into my breasts. 'It was a really bad infection, they had to scalpel all the infection out. They said I'd lost that part of my nipple, and they confirmed it was necrosis at that point. 'They gave me antibiotics by injection into my boob and then two antibiotics to take for seven days. 'I booked it for seven days thinking it'll be all right, I'll be going home.. They didn't say, book a one-way ticket - they weren't really forthcoming with any details. Then, they told me I needed to stay here longer.' The initial £3500 price of the surgery would be on the lower end of the expected surgery price in the UK according to NHS guidance, but the problems Chloe has faced means her expenses skyrocketed. Chloe, who used to work as a nurse until suffering health problems, said: 'The flights in total cost me £550, I've got a stop-off on the way home because it was the cheapest flight and I'm not in a position to spend any more. 'I had to move my hotel closer to the clinic because the clinic moaned about that, so I had to pay for two hotels for £1500, they're so expensive here and you can't really get anything cheaper. 'Then general costs of living, food, drinks, which is a bomb. The surgery was £3500. Antibiotics I've paid for myself, around 30 Euros. 'I know these complications happen but necrosis happens from lack of blood supply, it often happens because of the surgery. I'm waiting for them to give me all the documentation. 'I've asked for their insurer, but I'm nervous to do it while I'm here because I'm nervous they won't treat me. 'I've got a course of antibiotics and I'm dressing the wound myself and sending photos to them, but they haven't told me anything about when I see the doctor next. I'm totally in the dark. 'I feel bad I've actually come out here and done it. People will tell me I shouldn't have done it. It's partly my own fault. 'I'm feeling drained from it all, mentally and financially drained. I've got such bad anxiety at the moment. The doctor said to my partner, it's not 100% the infection won't come back.'
The Independent
an hour ago
- The Independent
Waste of time and money in hospitals makes you want to cry, NHS England chief says
NHS England 's new chief has lamented the waste of time and money within the health service and said it makes her 'want to cry'. Dr Penny Dash, chair for NHS England, said there is poor management in hospitals which means the NHS 'absolutely' wastes too much money. The former hospital doctor and management consultant, who was appointed in March to help Health Secretary Wes Streeting's reform of the NHS and oversee the abolishment of NHS England, also said that erratic care across England – which leads to the poorest people receiving some of the worst treatment – is a 'stain on our country'. Speaking two days after the publication of the government's 10-year plan for the NHS, she told The Sunday Times: 'We've got some GP practices where less than 2 per cent of people with diabetes get the right care but in other GP practices it's 80 per cent. That cannot be right. 'I think it is a stain on our country that we have some of the poorest communities receiving the poorest care. We've got fewer GPs per head of population in the parts of the country that need them most than we do in the parts of the country that need them least.' According to the paper, Dr Dash will use an upcoming report on patient safety, due to be published on Monday, to highlight that £6 billion a year is being lost due to poor disease management where best practice is not followed. Addressing stories of patients suffering and missing appointments due to admin errors, Dr Dash said 'you just want to cry'. She added: 'There is poor management — we have operating theatres that don't start on time and that has a really high cost.' A major feature of the 10-year plan was ambitions to use ambient AI to help cut the time spent by staff on admin duties. She added that there were empty buildings not being used and still costing money to run, with a lot of the buildings only being used 30 to 40 hours a week. When asked by The Sunday Times if she thinks the NHS wastes too much money, she said: 'Absolutely. I do.' But she added that 'all other healthcare systems and businesses' also waste too much money. The NHS chief also pointed out that having patients forced to go to A&E as the only place open was 'ridiculous'. She said: 'We have this rather ridiculous system at the moment where the only place with the doors open and the lights on seven days a week is A&E. So, not surprisingly, if you really want to be seen, you go to A&E.' She explained the NHS would need to change the way money is used by the service, shifting money into community-based care instead of hospitals. This was a key element of the 10-year plan. 'No one wants to see their mum in a hospital bed for the last few weeks of her life when she doesn't need to be in that hospital bed and we could have looked after her better in her own bed with lots of care and support in the community,' she said. 'But at the moment it doesn't really matter financially to anybody, whether you do that or not. The reality is, as well as being pretty grim for your mum, it costs an enormous amount of money. Hospitals are really expensive places.' This year, the NHS faces major reform and savings demands from ministers, with commissioners forced to reduce costs by 50 per cent and hospitals making hundreds of staff cuts.
BBC News
an hour ago
- BBC News
Why so many young men dey struggle wit mental health, and no dey ask for help?
For recent years, di world don wake up to a growing youth mental health problem, and one group dey particularly vulnerable: boys and young men. Decades of research don establishe say men dey less likely dan women to seek support for dia mental health – 40% less likely, one 2023 US study find. But we still sabi little about how – or wen – teenage boys and young men ask for help. "Dis dey cause worry," a 2024 review for di European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry journal, "as adolescent boys and young men get high suicide rates but a low take-up of services." Wetin dey drive dis disconnect – and how schools, parents and policymakers fit step in to help? Suffer in silence Globally, one in seven adolescents between di ages of 10 and 19 experience a mental disorder, according to World Health (WHO) research last year. E find say depression, anxiety, and behavioural conditions na di most common disorders, and suicide remains di third leading cause of death among dose wey dey age 15–29. According to The Lancet Psychiatry Commission, up to 75% of all mental health conditions begin bifor di age of 25, wit di peak onset at just 15 years. While young pipo dey physically healthier dan eva, mentally dem dey struggle, and di numbers dey rise, making dis "a dangerous phase" for youth mental health. Yet despite di need, many boys and young men no dey use di mental health services available. "Ova di last 15 to 20 years, we don see an alarming rise for di prevalence of mental health conditions for both boys and girls, but help-seeking dey much less common among young men," sas Professor Patrick McGorry, psychiatrist and executive director of Orygen - Australia's National Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health tok Dat stronghead dey sometimes mean say young men dey only reach out wen dem dey for crisis. Social norms around emotional toughness and self-reliance dey often discourage boys to seek help, sabi pipo tell di BBC, adding dat studies consistently show say boys internalise di message wey say to dey show vulnerability na sign of weakness. Dr John Ogrodniczuk, a professor of psychiatry for di University of British Columbia in Canada and di director of HeadsUpGuys, a mental health resource for men, explain say many boys still dey equate seeking help wit failure. "If we tok about masculine socialisation, e get a lot of prescriptions about wetin men gatz do or not do: be stoic, strong, in kontrol, no show any weakness or vulnerability, figure stuff out on your own," e say. "You fit see how a lot of dis tins serve as barriers to form a connection to your own emotional life and asking for help if you need am." Dr Ogrodniczuk note say wen support dey tailored to men – for tone, language and approach – engagement dey increase. Informal approach Recent research don identify several oda themes beside di social norms and di stigma of showing weakness wey dey shape how boys view mental health support. Many boys no recognise dia symptoms or sabi how to seek help, and dem often no feel comfortable for formal clinical settings. Boys and young men dey often prefer informal help, like conversations wit friends, or anonymous, online support, and male-friendly messaging wey aligns help-seeking wit strength, responsibility and action get more impact. Dis don lead to some youth services ditching traditional clinical models. For Australia, for instance, di youth mental health organisation Orygen co-designed spaces wit young pipo wey dey offer "soft entry" – informal settings wia conversations fit happun. "Young men fit no dey as amenable to sitting in a consulting room for dia first contact. Dem fit no wan sit down for interview," Orygen executive director Patrick McGorry tok. "Maybe dem go rada get a more laid-back conversation, while dem dey do sometingelse - like going for a walk or maybe playing a game of pool or table tennis." Social media: na friend or enemy? Social media na double-edged sword: e fit connect isolated teens and provide valuable information, but also expose dem to harmful content and toxic ideals of masculinity. "Di majority of young men now dey connect wit men and masculinity influencer content," according to Dr Simon Rice, clinical psychologist and global director of di Movember Institute of Men Health. Movember research find say many young men wey dey engage wit "manosphere" content report worse mental health dan dia peers. But Rice stress say no be all content dey negative, and social media fit also be a useful tool to improve mental health. "We wan make sure say we fit harness di positive aspects of social media to bring communities togeda, to provide good health and mental health information, while minimising di possibilities for harm." Howeva, e say dat di working of social media algorithms dey present a serious challenge as dem dey designed to distribute content wey dey more likely to be viral for nature, and e dey hard for positive, health-oriented content to "win di algorithm". Professor Mina Fazel, Chair of Adolescent Psychiatry for Oxford University, agree say e dey crucial to teach teenagers and parents how social media algorithms work, pointing to soon-to-be-published research wey find say a third of young pipo don see content wey dey related to self-harm on social media for di past month. But Professor Fazel add say social media alone no dey to blame and broader changes for society fit dey considered as well. "Family and community structures dey change dramatically, and social media potentially fit play a supportive role for a lot of young pipo," she say. Loneliness factor One of di most serious challenges wey dem dey sometimes overlooked na loneliness. According to a Gallup survey wey dem publish for May, 25% of US men age 15 to 34 say dem don feel lonely for a significant potion of di previous day, higher dan di national average of 18% and di total for young women, also 18%. Dr Ogrodniczuk say dat di data for HeadsUpGuys show say loneliness and a lack of purpose na two of di most common stressors among young men. Sabi pipo underline di need to provide safe spaces wia boys fit build friendships and tok openly – no be just for designated therapy sessions, but for everyday interactions. Dat fit mean mentorship programmes, peer support groups or simply to retink how we tok about mental health for classrooms. Role of schools "E get quite a positive trend say wen young boys do seek help, dem dey usually find am helpful," Professor Mina Fazel tok. "E fit no actually matter wia dat help dey deliva: it fit be for school, e fit be for social services, e fit be for di community." E also get a growing evidence say school culture play a role for boys wellbeing. Academic pressure, particularly in contexts wia boys dey fall behind girls, fit fuel anxiety, frustration and disengagement. Professor Fazel believe schools need to dey redesigned to work better for boys. "Di majority of di world children get access to schools," she say, "so maybe dis na di place wia we really need to tink about not only di academic education of children, but a broader offer of wetin e mean to develop as adolescents - especially for boys."
