HER chest tight, Kelly Jacobson Collins ran through her pre-holiday checklist again. Tickets, insurance, taxis… but the harder she tried to concentrate, the more her head spun. “I was having palpitations and kept telling myself I needed to calm down, but I couldn’t,” the mum of two remembers. “I knew it was normal to have a few pre-holiday jitters, but this was completely different. I’m usually so organised, but instead I was in a horrible state of panic, which was making it even more difficult to get things done. “As I got myself in more and more of a state, I felt completely out of control. My body reacted too and I suffered diarrhoea. The whole thing was unbearable.” It was a scenario that had become all too familiar for Kelly, 44, from east London – and although she didn’t know it at the time, the reason behind her panic attack was something around 3.5 million women in the UK pop on a daily basis: the contraceptive pill. Introduced in the UK in 1961, the drug revolutionised the lives of women around the world. If taken correctly, it’s 99% effective in preventing pregnancy. Plus, it can make periods lighter and… Read full this story
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