Why smells and tinny noises meant I could not travel on the tram

WHEN Louisa Hussey realised she couldn't ride Metrolink trams because of her heightened sense of smell, she thought she was just stressed

- PAIGE OLDFIELD

It was one of many strange symptoms the charity worker had been experiencing ranging from dry eyes to itchy skin - but she put them all down to tiredness.

However, alarm bells started to ring when Louisa, from Didsbury, found herself struggling to get pregnant in her 30s.

Further tests revealed Louisa was experiencing the early menopause and she would not be able to have children.

Louisa, who was just 36-years-old at the time, can recall the moment she was given the devastating news.

"It was a huge shock," she told the M.E.N.. "It was almost disbelief and utter heartbreak. I remember crying in the doctor's room.

"I had to go off sick from work at a cancer charity. I was massively grieving for the loss of what I thought was going to happen.