Celebrity dog trainer Louise's strange symptoms were driving her mad. Then a TV viewer gave her a startling diagnosis just by looking at her..
. By Richard Barber Published: 01:49 BST, 24 September 2024 | Updated: 01:57 BST, 24 September 2024 e-mail View comments For the first seven years of her now nine-year-old daughter's life, Louise Glazebrook's body was in revolt. It began months after her daughter was born, when her hands started swelling – 'I had to remove the rings on my fingers because they were so tight and painful,' recalls Louise, one of the UK's best known canine behaviourist and dog trainers.
Then her feet began to hurt so badly that when she got out of bed in the morning and put her feet on the ground 'the pain was indescribable'. Louise Glazebrook is one of the UK's best known canine behaviourist and dog trainers 'I couldn't understand why this was happening,' she says. There were other symptoms: 'I felt disconnected and sad most of the time.
When my daughter was three, and I was around 37, I went to my GP and he said my mental state was probably down to the fact I'd had two children in quick succession [Louise's son is two years older than her daughter]. 'When I described the pain in my hands and feet, he sent me for rheumatoid arthritis scans.' But these came back clear – and Louise found herself 'more or less dismissed'.
'What still angers me is that male GPs fob women off because of having children,' she says now. 'Would I have been taken mo.
