Mum says common condition leaves her feeling like she's 'possessed by demon'

A mum-of-one says she experiences pain "worse than childbirth" due to a common condition which leaves her "rocking, shaking and throwing up."

Amy Jewell, 26, says it feels like being "possessed by a demon" when she suffers from migraines and cluster headaches. Both cause intense and excruciating pain during recurring attacks which can last months.

The bar worker, from Liverpool, compared herself to a horror film character and if often forced to hide in her blacked-out room next to a bucket when an attack comes on, the ECHO reports.

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Mum-of-one Amy said: "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. It disturbs your life so much, your mental health is really affected, and there's just no understanding. Society just thinks it's a headache and it's not."

During an attack, which started when she was seven, Amy's senses are so sensitive even the red light of a TV on standby makes her vomit, and the "weird, musky smell" of summer rain gives her headaches.

She vividly remembers a headache in 2007 when she hadn't eaten in days . Amy said: "I remember watching the telly, and the pain in my head and my eyes. I remember screaming to my dad, 'You've got to turn the telly off, I just can't live like this'."

After Amy was diagnosed with cluster headaches as a child, doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital advised her to ride out the headaches and attempted to prevent them with beta-blockers and epilepsy medication. But nothing worked until she was referred to The Walton Centre.

Amy was relieved and stopped feeling like she was going mad when doctors there diagnosed her with cluster headaches in 2018.

She said: "I always knew that there was something up with