Sunbed addict given a year to live after using them five times a week | UK | News
After the diagnosis of cancer, an old sunrise enthusiast, where they lived for just a year, issued a sharp warning about the dangers of skin cancer and is not just a “lifting of mole”.
Jak Howell, who was only 21 years old in June 2021, faced the terrible diagnosis of the third stage advanced melanoma. In just two months, the cancer was spread from a small area on his back and aggressively on his chest.
At that time, Jak often used sunbeds five times a week for 18 minutes.
After a one -year immunotherapy, Jak took everything in December 2022. Now, he is determined to shed light on the “subsequent effects of mental health with cancer”.
Swansea -based content creator shared: “This surreal. I talk to my friends and make me feel almost at all. [immunotherapy] Treatment was a last repulsive, I would have had a year to live if it hadn’t done it. “, Reports the mirror.
“No doctor could understand how he was so violent at my age. Did you use a sunbed? ‘
“Yes, quite a lot,” I said. Doctors can not physically download it, but 99,999 percent of the chance is so severe because of the reason ‘.
Jak was at home in the locking in April 2021 and noticed a “really itchy” patch that began to bleed on his back. “I sent my GP by e-mail just before going to work because you couldn’t make an appointment with a locking and they replied when I started and said, ‘I don’t want to see you, go to the hospital directly’.
“For me, this was immediately alarm bells.”
After a biopsy at the Singleton Hospital in Swansea, Jak reported that the skin was cancerous after 10 days.
“At first, I didn’t expect anything to see that people with melanoma were cut and continuing. He made a snowball from there and grew up.”
Although everything that was open following a successful immunotherapy treatments was given, Jak’s mental health suffered. He said: “Recently, more than ever, I’m trying to push the late effects of mental health.
“This is another reason for forcing me to stop using sunbeds. I think I have tried to say people ‘use of sun loungers’ for years, but now I want to force the message that skin cancer is not just a mole, it is much more complex than that.
“I always say when they always say that you can hear a pin. I think you are building yourself not to do so far.
“I think it was the hardest part for me because my life happened in hospitals and in a way I knew I was always safe in a hospital. Now I had to go home, I was my own again.
“It was the most violent shock for the system I’ve ever lived. My mental health decreased rapidly at a speed I didn’t think I had lived before.
“I could not cope with what happened and life myself and life. This caused me violent trouble, my concern will not return to a normal level.
“I was able to withdraw myself from the depressive attacks he put on me, but before it was reached, there was a lot of therapy. Men don’t talk so much, I encourage everyone to talk.
“A shared problem went down in half. The biggest problem, you get yourself.”
