She was diagnosed with gastroparesis in March 2021, however, none of the treatments relieved her symptoms, and it wasn’t until she vented her frustrations in a Facebook group for gastroparesis sufferers that a woman reached out to her and suggested she looks into another condition.

“I had a message from a woman in America who said she had been a nurse for twenty years and I should look into MALS (Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome)

Opening up about her official MALS diagnosis, Annie shared: “I did an ultrasound with a doctor in London which came back positive for MALS and then had another diagnostic test done where they inject a steroid into a bundle of nerves after quite a few scans.”

Symptoms include stomach pain, bloating and vomiting and long-term MALS can lead to a fear of eating because of the pain, which in turn causes severe weight loss