Capital DJ gets life-changing diagnosis after skipping doctors for lash appointment

Radio presenter Zofia Rogers has gone public with a life-changing diagnosis, as she admitted that she delayed a consultant appointment to attend a 'lash appointment'. The host said she had been convinced there was "nothing wrong".

Zofia, 24 - who's a DJ on Capital Dance - announced this week that she has been diagnosed with (MS). She shared the update on yesterday and has said that "losing control" of her bladder has been her primary symptom of the condition.

The condition, which affects the brain and spinal cord, cannot currently be cured but treatment can often help manage it, the states. Symptoms can include fatigue, muscle cramps and blurred vision.

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In a lengthy post, Zofia shared yesterday: "Health update: After months of appointments, tests, scans and investigations I finally have a diagnosis of MS (multiple sclerosis). This has come as a huge shock to me as I never expected it would be something like this, and I'll have to have lifelong treatment to manage symptoms and make sure it doesn't get any worse.

"I'm really lucky that I've found it super early and I only had 2 lesions on my brain so hopefully with [the] correct treatment it will stay at a mild level. Although I'm massively in shock at this outcome and it wasn't something I was expecting, I'm also relieved to finally know what's been making me feel unwell for so long and I've now been referred to an MS specialists who will be able to get me started on treatment."

Zofia concluded her initial post by sharing that she was looking to connect with other people who have been diagnosed with the condition. She wrote: "I'd love to connect with other people who have MS as I'm still trying to learn and understand more of what it all looks like and kind of wrap my head around it, so please do drop me a dm if you have it too."

In a subsequent post, that included a photo of her wearing a hospital gown, Zofia encouraged her followers to consider health insurance if they "can afford it". She added: "The speed and ease of everything has been incredible".

She also said in that post that she had "nearly cancelled" an MRI scan and that she had delayed a consultant appointment at one point. Zofia said that she had previously been "convinced" that there was "nothing wrong" with her.

Zofia wrote: "Funny story, I was SO convinced there was nothing wrong with me that I nearly cancelled my MRI scan cos I couldn't be bothered to take out my hair extensions as they had metal in them. And I delayed my consultant appointment cos the one they gave me clashed with a lash appointment." After laughing emojis, she added: "Lashes first."

Zofia later clarified that she was not encouraging people to follow in her footsteps. She said: "Btw I absolutely do not condone moving round a doctors appt for lashes. I'm just a silly billy & I kinda thought the doctors were barking up the wrong tree so I didn't really think it was gonna be something I needed to take seriously hahaja."

More recently, in a video message filmed in the radio studio, Zofia said: "Thank you so much for the messages about my last couple of Stories. I really debated like sharing this because I was like 'ooh do I want to share it?' but I really wanted to just like connect with some other people who are also going through like a similar diagnosis."

She continued: "So yeah, that's why I chose to share it." She added: "And obviously it's gonna be something that is like part of my life so obviously I post my life on social media so yeah."

Zofia told her followers that she will post about her symptoms at some point before sharing: "Basically, all the symptoms were very mild. I've had nothing major." She said that the "main" symptom for her has been "losing control" of her bladder but noted that there are "a few other things" too.

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