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Doctors Mistook Paralysis For Anorexia

3,248 views · Published 9 March 2017 · 1:10 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: Caters Clips · 2017 · News & Politics

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A fraud analyst claims she was wrongly branded anorexic and made to feel a liar by doctors because she vomited 60 times a day – only for them to discover her stomach was actually paralysed.

Hannah Leffler shed more than two stone, dropping from a healthy size 10 to wearing children's aged 10 to 11 clothes, after she began suffering from gastroparesis in 2014.

But the 26-year-old claims she was made to feel like a liar when doctors who were certain she had an eating disorder subjected her to 12 months of examinations – watching her while she slept and even MEASURING her vomit – before she was eventually diagnosed at a different hospital in 2015.

Hannah, who requires a feeding tube for up to 20 hours a day, now claims the NHS is 'putting her life on hold' again after her bid for a life-changing stomach pacemaker was turned down.

Hannah, from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, said: "When I got ill I was nauseous and vomiting and had stomach pains. At first I just thought I had a bug, but it got so bad that I went to hospital.

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