I felt like I was getting electric shocks - then found out it was cancer

Every night when Carol McGachie went to bed she felt like she was being hit by electric shocks.

She would pace up and down while intense tingling pains went up her legs and down her arms.

The mother-of-two from West Lothian couldn't sleep a wink with the pain.

When she went to the doctor she was given painkillers for her sore back - but Carol thought there must be something more seriously wrong.

"I felt like I had been plugged into the mains," the 56-year-old told BBC Scotland News.

"It's an intense tingling that won't go away. You can't feel your skin or your hands properly.

"It's worse than pins and needles but on a similar vibe and a lot more painful."

Carol felt scared and panicky when it then started happening in the daytime as well.

So she went back to the doctor and after almost a year of tests and scans she was diagnosed with myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.

Carol had six months of chemotherapy at the Western General Hospital from October 2022 and is now in remission.

"You do feel sorry for yourself in the beginning," she said.

"I know it's incurable and it will come back.

"Every time you get aches and pains you think, 'Is it back":[]}