Mum-of-three told she had 'trapped nerve' - now she could have just months to live

A mum-of-three battling stage four cancer could have just months left to live – after doctors told her she was suffering from a trapped nerve. Andrea Fenn first contacted her GP in May 2021 after she began experiencing severe pain in her shoulder and spine.

Despite her concerns, the 52-year-old was told she had frozen shoulder – also known as adhesive capsulitis – a condition that causes stiffness and pain in the shoulder joint.

But, over the course of 2021, Andrea’s condition deteriorated. Although doctors believed the former support worker could also have a trapped nerve, no operation, test or medication could determine the cause of her pain.

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That was until she sought a second opinion from a different GP after being “passed from pillar to post”. Following an MRI scan, medics found a lump on her lung. It was lung cancer.

Following months of agonising pain, Andrea, from Leigh, Wigan , now believes the cancer could have been caught quicker if she was listened to and her concerns were taken more seriously. “I feel like I’ve been fobbed off,” she told the Manchester Evening News.

“I was on the phone to the doctors regularly, at least once or twice a week. The pain was excruciating and on one particular day in September I was literally on my knees clinging to my boyfriend’s waist saying someone has got to help me.

“I was going to bed hoping I wouldn’t wake up. They told me there was nothing else they could prescribe for me painkiller wise. I called up the next morning and insisted on a second opinion.

“Cancer never crossed my mind; I presumed it was a problem with my shoulder. If someone had listened to me, I possibly