'Doctors said I had tummy ache, now I haven't eaten for eight years'

A young woman with a paralysed stomach hasn't been able to eat or drink anything for eight years and is fed through her heart to survive.

Liv Rose, 25, has struggled with stomach pain since the age of three, but said doctors dismissed it as 'tummy ache'. As a result, she struggled to eat anything other than bland foods - such as plain pasta or chicken.

Liv began vomiting undigested food, but said her symptoms were dismissed for an eating disorder at first.

She was finally diagnosed with gastroparesis - when food passes through the stomach slower than it should - and pan-gut dysmotility - where the gut does not work as it should. Now Liv has a Hickman line which goes directly into her heart so she can receive nutrition.

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Liv, who is unable to work, said: "I've had gastro pain since I was three and pain with eating. I had to fight to get diagnosed. My parents were made to feel they were overbearing. You don't realise how much life revolves around food until it's taken away from you."

Liv, from Chester, Cheshire, struggled with pain when eating from the age of three. She said: "I went to the doctors frequently but I was dismissed. They said 'kids get tummy ache'. But as I grew the pain got worse."

Liv's health deteriorated further when she was 17. She said: "I was living off bland foods. Rich foods are more painful. I ate plain foods like pasta without sauce and pain chicken."

Liv's symptoms worsened when she suddenly started vomiting in 2017 at the age of 17. She said: "It happened out of the blue." Liv went from vomiting once a week to once a day to throwing up every time she tried to