Scans found huge swellings on Lowri’s brain around the parasites. <\/p>\n
Following the collapse she became confused and started experiencing numbness and tingling in her body.<\/p>\n
From there, Lowri ended up giving up work and moving in with her dad in Carmarthen. <\/p>\n
She was put on steroids that altered her appearance and, as her life became smaller, she began to feel low until her mental health collapsed.<\/p>\n
“This paranoia and psychosis started kicking in\u2026 there was severe anxiety, panic attacks,” Lowri, who spent six weeks in a neuropsychiatric hospital, said. <\/p>\n
“I spiralled a lot,” she recalled.<\/p>\n
“My family were losing their mind with how things escalated. Friends were coming and seeing me in such a terrible state.”<\/p>\n
One of those people who visited was Nicola Brown – a friend of 20 years. <\/p>\n
Having not seen Lowri for a month, Nicola was left stunned by her deterioration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scans found huge swellings on Lowri’s brain around the parasites. Following the collapse she became confused and started…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-667178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}