A 'MASSIVE foodie' claims she woke up one day to find she was unable to eat and lost nearly half her body weight in just six months. Shannon Dunbar-Dawe suddenly developed bloating and nausea during May 2022 and thought it was because she was drinking too much coffee . 6 Shannon Dunbar-Dawe suddenly developed bloating and nausea during May 2022 Credit: Kennedy News 6 She was unable to eat more than a couple of digestive biscuits daily without looking 'six months pregnant' Credit: Kennedy News 6 Shannon says she is a 'shell' of who she used to be weighing only 5.
6st Credit: Kennedy News 6 The food-lover spent 10 days in hospital after her pain became 'unbearable' Credit: Kennedy News The 30-year-old lost nearly half her body weight after spending months 'hunched over the toilet' in pain with sickness and was unable to eat more than a couple of digestive biscuits daily without looking 'six months pregnant ' due to stomach swelling. Doctors dismissed this as 'anxiety' or an 'eating disorder' and put Shannon in hospital in July 2023 where she was force fed during the 'worst two weeks of her life'. After consulting a private doctor, the former accounting student was 'relieved' to be finally diagnosed with gastroparesis and now has had a feeding tube fitted as the only way she can consume food.
Gastroparesis is a rare condition that paralyses the stomach's nerves and muscles making food digestion take longer than it should, and it is generally not known what causes it. Read more he.