Snooker player Ben Woollaston – two years of illness

‘most days just feel like survival’

The world number 53 says the problem dates back to May 2021 and the day he took his first Covid vaccine. He passed out shortly after the jab and has not felt the same since.

While he says doctors have disagreed on the vaccine being the cause of the problem, he sees it as the obvious point of when he started struggling.

‘The first six months were horrendous, I was just at home, sleeping 18-20 hours a day,’ Woollaston told Metro.co.uk. ‘I couldn’t stand on my feet for more than a few minutes without feeling like I was going to pass out…

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