'GP said I had tendinitis and gave me muscle gel – but the truth was terrifying'

'GP said I had tendinitis and gave me muscle gel – but the truth was terrifying'

A young woman who was wrongly diagnosed with tendonitis was shocked to discover the real reason behind her symptoms. At 18, Gracie Butler did not suspect anything serious when she began experiencing leg pain.

Although her GP initially suspected muscle aches and later tendonitis, it became apparent that something much more serious was happening when physiotherapy and muscle gels failed to alleviate the pain. One night, everything reached a crisis point when the teenager woke up completely unable to walk after a night out.

An X-ray and subsequent biopsy revealed she actually had spindle cell sarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancerous tumour. Everything then changed overnight for the 'carefree' teenager, who sud