A mum left in agony when her beauty treatment went wrong begged her husband to kill her when her life began to unravel. Laura Turner, 44, had wanted to get an exfoliating facial as a treat for herself in 2021 and visited RHealthB, on Kingston Road in Wimbledon. Instead, she was offered a galvanic facial instead, but didn’t have it explained to her it involved electrical currents to stimulate the skin on the face.
During the treatment her teeth started “feeling strange” and she discovered later anyone with metal in their body should not undergo the treatment - Laura had a metal retainer wire behind her teeth. She was left with persistent pain in her teeth which caused her agony. After two visits to a neurologist she was prescribed with amitriptyline, which caused her to have insomnia.
She told MyLondon : “The amount of times I’ve run it around in my head - had I not have gone, this whole chain of events would never, ever have happened. It’s a real sliding doors moment in time. “My ability to function at all in life completely slipped away, I couldn’t leave the house.
Looking back, this should have been the first warning sign to doctors something was very wrong. "I kept saying to everybody, the medication was to blame. When we went to the doctor, all they would say was it is not possible to have these side effects from the dose you’re on.
“I felt like my head was not my own and nobody would listen to me. I was isolated and alone and terrified. I would lock m.
