Annie Marshall, 20, suffered from severe stomach pain for 9 months until a stranger hit her nail in the head with the diagnosis.
Annie Marshall I felt pains more and more frequent. I thought of one food poisoning he’d left her sick every time he ate, but he wasn’t getting better. Until her mysterious illness that left her to die diagnosed by a stranger on Facebook.
The 20 years Originally from Essex, UK, she started experiencing symptoms in March 2020. She was told she was going to recover from a stomach virus, but things got really complicated.
Stomach pain and uncertainty
Even if the pain would leave her bedridden for the rest of the day he visited several medical specialists and finally diagnosed gastroparesis in March 2021, he reflects Mirror.
Doctors told Annie she suffered from anorexia.
She had lost a lot of weight and says none of the medications or treatments she was given helped relieve her symptoms, which included a liquid diet.
However, it was only after Annie expressed her frustrations on a Facebook group for people with gastroparesis that a woman approached her and suggested that she look into the median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS).
“A stomach should empty in half an hour, but for me, after four hours, 0% was empty. I didn’t know what to do and I felt really bad. I had practically given upThe girl remembers.
After seeing various specialists, he was first diagnosed with gastroparesis.
failed surgery
Months passed, Annie suffered with her family and the solution did not appear. Hopes were revived later contact a doctor in Texaswho told her that if she flew soon he would have surgery to try to alleviate her symptoms.
“Was pioneer in gastric sleeve and bariatric surgery; we were pretty desperate right now, “she reveals with deep sorrow.
suffered a minimally invasive surgery with the idea of waiting for the results two months after the procedure. Unfortunately the pain was still there.
Annie had to consume protein drinks as a substitute for food.
With much frustration, he expressed his feelings in a post on a Facebook group and, unexpectedly, a stranger found “the key to solving the problem”.
Facebook random diagnosis
“I received a message from a woman to America who said she had been a nurse for 20 years and that I should have investigated this syndrome. She had it herself and had worked with specialist surgeons, so it was pure luck, ”she recalls.
The pain continued to increase in the following months and he went to see experts to try to get to the bottom of the mysterious disease.
up to a the doctor told him I thought I had anorexia and no physical problems. “At first my parents believed it too, they trusted him because he was a doctor,” he says, but they realized there was no way he could manipulate the symptoms he was experiencing.
Annie got the accurate diagnosis on Facebook.
Thus, treatment for gastroparesis began, including Injection of botox in the stomach. Nothing worked. Not even antibiotics for that long when they thought it was a bacterial infection.
Another step in London and the United States.
After investigating and finding the person with similar symptoms, he found a doctor in London which could cure the disease.
He did an ultrasound and finally got the diagnosis he was looking for: he had median arcuate ligament syndrome.
Annie Marshall when she was little.
Annie is currently waiting to be seen in Connecticut by a world-leading MALS specialist. “I was put on a waiting list for surgery which will hopefully take place in July,” she confirms. Right there, he enters the operating room again to finally undergo the operation that changes his life.
Source: Clarin
