Young woman diagnosed with ‘suicide disease’ faces race against time
- Amelia Martin, now 23, was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- It has caused debilitating and constant pain across her body since she was 17
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A young woman diagnosed with ‘suicide disease’ aged 17 is facing a race against time as her family try to fund treatment for her debilitatingly painful condition.
Amelia Martin, from Canterbury, Kent, was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) – which causes such constant severe pain it can lead sufferers to consider taking their own lives – after symptoms first appeared in September 2017.
While seeing her grandmother after school, Amelia, now 23, suddenly began crying and screaming in pain, so her mother Natalie, 48, was called to pick her up.
At random times, Millie would feel the sensation of pins and needles and even her skin burning – and her symptoms only got worse.
‘She kept saying her toes are burning. She wouldn’t let me touch her. She said she felt like she was going to die, Millie’s mother Mrs Martin, a beauty therapist, told The Independent.
