A mother who suffers from a rare disease that makes her vomit up to 60 times a day claims people assume she is bulimic.
Shimmi Munshi, 40, from Bolton, Lancashire, has even been doubted by doctors over her symptoms – which are similar to the eating disorder.
One psychologist, who didn’t believe her, asked if she was ‘an Oscar-winning actress lying about having an eating disorder’.
She has since been diagnosed with a severe form of gastroparesis – an incurable condition responsible for her symptoms.
It stops food moving through the body because her stomach muscles and bladder are dysfunctional, causing severe pain and nausea.
After finally accepting her condition to be real, doctors fitted her with a device in her stomach and each buttock to improve her digestion.
