Community Stories

After struggling through years of eating disorders, depression, anxiety and all the medications that her doctors prescribed, Samantha Boyce finally found out why she had felt different since childhood. ADHD was the culprit behind her overwhelming experiences through all facets of life – this is how she finally found out, and the tumultuous journey she took to get there.

35-year-old Hollie Owens was in her twenties when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer – but doctors and nurses had told her time and time again she was too young, making her wait years for urgent tests. The result? She was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and given a 5% chance the live. Here’s how she fought for her life despite the obstacles – from the cancer and doctors alike.

Despite doctors' claims that she was too young for bowel cancer, Jessica Dasler knew something was wrong. A stage 4 diagnosis years later proved her right – but the next challenge was getting doctors to give her the right treatment rather than write her off.   

Neonatal nurse Nicole Francillon suffered from severe pain for decades before getting her endometriosis diagnosis – from dismissive doctors to the normalisation of female pain, the 43-year-old reveals the hurdles she had to leap across to receive that much-needed medical support.

After noticing her clothes no longer fit and struggling to reign in a sugar habit, Christine Urry decided it was time to take back control of her life. Here’s how she made it happen with the 8-Week Program.

Suffering from poor sleep, aching joints and obesity, Christina was keen to make a change in her life. That’s when she came upon the 8-Week Program – the nurse and mum-of-3 shares how she transformed her lifestyle and reignited her inspiration for healthy living in just 2 months.

After joining the 8-Week Program, Danielle went from debilitating chronic pain and a diet high in junk food to an improved mood, a renewed sense of motivation and now has plans to enter her first powerlifting comp. Here’s how she did it.

Marsha has lived with debilitating pain for decades as a result of both endometriosis and adenomyosis. While these reproductive diseases are scarily common, the awareness and understanding of them is anything but. She shares her experience of being dismissed and gaslit by doctors despite her agonising symptoms.  

In light of Endometriosis Awareness Month, I Quit Sugar’s own Clara Mearns reveals her arduous journey to finally getting her endometriosis diagnosis after years of pain and medical gaslighting. This is her story.

After the birth of her third child, Tara Whaley was told her baby had Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare disease affecting just 350,000 people or 1 in 15, 000 births. The 45-year-old fashion designer shares her story, including how the condition has affected her family’s lives and her fears and hopes for the future.

Years after starting premature menopause at the age of 26, Georgina was told she couldn't have kids. Here’s how she proved them wrong.