‘I remember thinking in the ambulance that I was a goner’
TV show featured mum left in agony by a mystery ilness
A STAFFORDSHIRE Moorlands mum-of-two has revealed how she thought she was going to die after suffering excruciating pain from a mystery illness.
Georgia Forrester was rushed to Royal Stoke University Hospital in an ambulance before tests were carrired out to locate the cause of the pain.
Her story was featured in the hard-hitting medical documentary 999: Critical Condition last week on Channel 5.
The 28-year-old, from Cheadle, said: “I was on my hands and knees and in absolute agony when I called 999 with crushing pain in my abdomen.
“It was like a tightening around my whole body and really took my breath away.
“I have had two babies without pain relief, and this pain was something else.
“I remember thinking in the ambulance that I was a goner.”
Georgia was treated at the hospital’s Major Trauma Centre, with Dr Andrew Bennet desperate to relieve her of her agony.
Georgia added: “I stayed in hospital for two days and had a number of tests and they all came back clear and didn’t know what was wrong with me.”
Now Georgia has been diagnosed with sphincter of oddi dysfunction – a condition which creates a build-up of digestive juices in the pancreas and liver, and can lead to abdominal pain.