The young woman from Victoria is urging travellers to learn from her experience. 9News
Tess Swift from Ocean Grove, south of Geelong, has suffered from chronic illness for more than seven years and warns it could happen to anyone.Tess Swift from Ocean Grove south of Geelong has suffered from chronic illness for more than seven years and warns it could happen to anyone.
"I started feeling not great a couple of weeks after we got back but ... we put it down to being overseas eating different food," she said. "Then about four weeks after we got back I woke up in the middle of the night with really severe abdominal pain and nausea."But the excruciating pain continued and the nausea has never stopped."I haven't had a day where I'm not nauseous for the last seven and a half years, and again, we tried over 20 medications for nausea with not much success."Doctors couldn't work out what was wrong.
"I've been in and out of hospital, being told all sorts of different things from 'we think you have an eating disorder' to 'it's just irritable bowel syndrome', and a thousand other things in between."Her mother Virginia Dickson-Swift said it had been a "challenging" time.It was gnathostomiasis, a bug that comes from eating undercooked or raw infected freshwater fish, birds, and reptiles.
"If you've got something that is a condition that's a little bit different, you know, keep advocating for yourself, keep pushing," she said.
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