An undergraduate from Hertfordshire suffers three days of hangover after drinking due to a rare illness. She was diagnosed with the fibromyalgia last year, a condition that will affect her for the rest of her life.
Shannon Birse, 19, has a condition that makes her feel the pain more intensely than others. Unfortunately, there is no cure for fibromyalgia which has over 200 symptoms that include crippling pain, intense migraines and chronic fatigue, Metro reported.
Birse is studying at the Royal Holloway University, and fibromyalgia makes it difficult for her to have a social life as a student. She's taking 30 tablets a day to manage her condition and she has to prepare before going out as she cannot take her medications before drinking. Without medication, hangover pains last for three days.
"At first I found it difficult because you grieve for the life you thought you could have. But I'm more positive now, although I still have bad days where I feel fed up," Brise said.
Her condition started in February of 2015, when she was diagnosed with a virus called labyrinthitis that causes sickness and vertigo. It was previously treated by the doctors, she stated on a student newspaper.
"But I started getting severe joint pain and muscle pain and I was only getting two or three hours sleep a night. It's not even restorative sleep because my body doesn't enter into REM [rapid eye movement," she added.
Her fibromyalgia was diagnosed in summer. However, aside from finding out what causes her pains, she also discovered that there was no cure for fibromyalgia, as reported by Daily Mail.
Brise said that coping with her condition needs a lot of money, as she has to take vitamins, painkillers, sleeping tablets and other medications. Her family and friends are doing an abseil in the efforts of raising funds for her treatment and also to research for a cure.
