<div>Hi, my name is Kate and I am fundraising for my daughter. The before and after photo is Mollie at 21 and her at 26. When she was 21, she woke up one day with intense, agonising pain in her eyeball and eye socket, eyebrow and head, pain which has never left since that day, pain that has become worse and worse, seriously impacting her life and mental health. This pain does not leave her for even a second, the agony is constant and can flare up to unimaginable levels several times a day. The impact of chronic daily physical pain is evident in the photographs. Mollie has hardly any life and has considered suicide on a daily basis in recent months due to the terrible daily pain. This scares the hell out of me and I dearly want to get my daughter's life back which in turn will give me my life back. Mollie is a creative girl, self taught on guitar, writes her own songs and music, is a fantastic writer and has even written a book! It breaks my heart that she can't do these things anymore. Her goal is to go out and work and use the skills she has, live a life, travel and be independent. She lives with a pain level of 7/10 which spikes daily to 10/10, sometimes this can be due to trying to read a simple sentence in a book, attempting to go on her phone for even just a minute at a time and even sensations such as wind, brushing her teeth, touching her face, light and sound sensitivity or even just thinking or trying to have a conversation. Then other times the pain will spike for absolutely no reason many times during the day, making it highly unpredictable, it has totally got a life of it's own! Mollie's pain is so severe, her case has been used as an example in the House of Commons to demonstrate how migraine and chronic pain can destroy peoples lives. After years of receiving no support, for the last few months we have been and still are being supported by the National Migraine Centre who have finally listened to, believed and understood Mollie's pain and in turn have referred Mollie to an international specialist consultant at St Thomas's Hospital, London. He suspects that alongside chronic migraine Mollie has a rare Neurological disorder which could explain the constant agony she lives with. We are not fully sure on the diagnosis yet, but this is the closest we have come to answers in 5 years. Mollie has already trialled a new drug suggested by him, unfortunately this didn't work and caused an allergic reaction. This is just one of the countless medications Mollie has trialled. We are hoping we are still on the right track, lots more tests and scans have to be done including more treatment trials. The treatment, along with travel and consultations and time off work is costly. I am fundraising to help pay for this. We're hoping that we can get Mollie's pain under control and to a manageable level, hoping that maybe in the future we can obtain treatments on the NHS that will keep Mollie's symptoms under control. Should there be any funds left we will donate them to the National Migraine Centre, they have been absolutely marvellous and have given us hope, in their words 'we are determined to get Mollie back to a manageable life'. If you are able, please help me get Mollie's life back. Thank you so very much.
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<div><strong>These are now Mollie's words -</strong>
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<div>In 2019, I was a happy healthy 21 year old, working an internship and had big dreams for my career and life. I couldn't wait to progress my working career as well as continuing to do the things I loved as mum mentioned above. Slowly, every single hobby I loved has been taken from me, for example, despite having played guitar for 18 years, now that I am ill, on the occasions where I do try and play the pain soars. The pain leaves me trapped in my home feeling like a prisoner in my own body, when all I want to do is go out and live my life. The hardest part is the pain as it is so intense and never goes away, but what also breaks my heart is that my condition is invisible, so I've encountered a lot of people and professional medics who have dismissed and disbelieved the severity of my pain, simply because they cannot see it. But if you truly examine my life and look at the before and after photo's you can see how much this condition has destroyed me. Please help me to try and get answers and live normally again.
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<div>Many thanks for reading this and helping me if you can. It would be very much appreciated and hopefully life changing.
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<div>Mollie xx
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Please help Mollie get back to a healthy and happy life

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