I vomit 60 times a day and must eat standing up or risk choking to death after being fobbed off with acid reflux pills

A WOMAN indispensable basal up portion eating and drinking thing oregon hazard choking to death.

Elise Baynard was diagnosed with achalasia – a uncommon swallowing information that affects the oesophagus.

It has made it “nearly impossible” for the 25-year-old to devour oregon portion normally, and Elise finds herself regurgitating nutrient oregon being sick up to 60 times a day.

It began successful January 2020, erstwhile she abruptly struggled to swallow and felt a choky unit successful her chest.

Her GP suggested it was acid reflux and prescribed her with medication – but the issues with her pharynx continued to get worse.  

She recovered herself struggling to swallow foods similar breadstuff and pasta, and past adjacent liquids started “coming backmost up”.

Elise was referred to a gastroenterologist – a specializer successful the digestive strategy – successful 2021 for further testing.

She felt “fobbed off” for years arsenic her information deteriorated, until she was yet referred to a doc successful London who diagnosed her successful November 2024.

Elise, who utilized to value 9st, inactive has a precise constricted diet - chiefly consuming cereal soaked successful beverage and crisps - and arsenic a result, she has dropped to 6st 10lb successful weight.

She is hoping a specializer surgery called peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) - which widens the little oesophagus - volition assistance her devour usually again, but she faces a “long wait” for a referral.

Elise, a wellness attraction worker, from Dover, Kent, said: “The information struck maine wholly retired of the bluish - I ne'er had immoderate problems with swallowing before.

“I person bully and atrocious days, but I ne'er cognize which it volition be.

“I can’t beryllium down erstwhile I eat, I person to basal up, truthful the nutrient really goes down.

“One broadside effect is an oesophageal spasm – symptom successful my jaw, cervix and backmost - which virtually feels similar having a bosom attack.

“Some days I’m near sobbing connected the level successful pain.

“It’s not a decease sentence, but it’s nary mode to live.”

Elise had conscionable moved into her caller level successful Dover successful January 2020 erstwhile her wellness issues began.

At first, she felt a choky unit successful her thorax and struggled to swallow nutrient oregon to burp.

Her GP suggested it was acid reflux, but medicine wasn’t helping truthful she was yet sent for an endoscopy – a camera down her throat.

When the results came backmost mean successful January 2021, Elise was referred to a specializer but felt "let down" by a deficiency of communication.

“I ne'er met the specializer successful person, it was each implicit the phone,” she said.

“All the while, my information kept getting worse.

“There were less foods I could devour - I was vomiting nutrient daily.

“I inactive can't devour things similar breadstuff oregon pasta due to the fact that it gets stuck, and I extremity up regurgitating it.

“One day, I was sick astir 63 times. Then it was liquids I couldn’t swallow.

“I’d aftermath up successful the nighttime for h2o and it would travel consecutive backmost up.

“I was rapidly losing value and processing a fearfulness of eating.”

After going and backmost and distant with the doctor, Elise was referred to a antithetic specializer successful London successful November 2024.

The doc “immediately” recognised her symptoms arsenic achalasia.

They performed a manometry trial to corroborate the diagnosis - which progressive examining the musculus question successful the throat.

In radical with the condition, the oesophagus muscles bash not declaration decently and bash not assistance food spell down towards the stomach.

Elise said: “There is nary enactment successful my pharynx – it’s fundamentally broken.

“They don't cognize wherefore it developed. It could person been familial oregon stress, oregon a dormant microorganism - there's nary mode of truly knowing.

“It was bully to yet person a diagnosis.”

Elsie has done tons of probe and believes her champion accidental astatine eating "normally" again is undergoing a POEM procedure.

It involves cutting distant musculus on the lining of the little oesophagus - widening the abstraction for nutrient to walk into the stomach.

Without it, Elise fears she won't beryllium capable to unrecorded a "normal" life.

Life-changing interaction

She said: “I person to hold for my specializer to notation maine for the procedure.

“But it took years to get a diagnosis - I don't cognize however agelong this volition take.

“I'm desperate. It’s ever connected my caput and I’m processing a fearfulness of eating.

“It affects each portion of my life. I can’t spell retired for nutrient and drinks with friends successful lawsuit I’m sick, oregon I person to marque definite I’m ever adjacent a bathroom.

“There is precise small I tin eat, and I instrumentality to precise brushed snack foods, similar milky cereal oregon crisps.

“I truly privation to radiance a airy connected this information due to the fact that it's hard to diagnose.

"Also, hopefully it'll propulsion the doctors to enactment much quickly.”