Woman, 22, having great time in Lanzarote warned: "go to hospital now" when she got home

A woman has shared her story after she was rushed to hospital following a holiday in 'great holiday' Lanzarote.

Mel Kelly lives an active life as a sports coach and karate teacher but started suffering with severe headaches in September. She was given medication by her GP for a sinus infection and migraines.

A subsequent blood test showed high levels of prolactin, which could indicate a brain tumour, but further tests came back normal. Despite the 'relief' of these results the migraines continued to get worse, until she eventually started to lose her vision.

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The 22-year-old told the ECHO: "I honestly thought it was something hormonal because my mum suffers with migraines, so I just thought it was a normal thing. But then as time was going on, it literally wasn't leaving me, this headache.

"It was like a pulsing in my head, like a pressure. I didn't know what to do because no one was listening to me, the doctors weren't listening to me. They just kept passing it off as different things.

"I felt like I was going crazy because I'd read so much online, which people tell you not to, but when medical professionals aren't listening to you, the internet was the only thing that I could rely on and turn to at that moment in time. Then I started to lose my vision."

Mel, from the New Ferry area of Merseyside, consulted with her GP online after this, before flying to Lanzarote for a five day holiday in December. "My eyesight was dreadful at this point, literally like double vision. I had this pain at the very back of my ear, and I didn't know what it was," she added.

Despite what she had been through Mel said she had a