A wedding stylist who thought she'd simply overdone it at work was horrified when her sore leg turned out to be deadly blood clots 'caused by the contraceptive pill'.

Charlotte Collis began to experience sharp pains in her right calf in April 2025 but put her discomfort down to long days on her feet during 'high wedding fair season'. When the 37-year-old began to develop a cough and noticed her face flush red throughout the day, she brushed it off as being caused by her asthma or allergies.

But when the symptoms persisted, Charlotte's wedding stylist husband Paul Collis, 42, urged her to go to the doctors. At her first GP appointment on June 2nd, the mum-of-two was checked for a chest infection and underwent a saliva test and x-ray but was told all her results were clear.

But when Paul

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