article_snippet.sent: A young woman has revealed details about A young woman lengthy battle with a rare condition that left A young woman unable to eat anything for a year and a half – despite the fact that A young woman still felt desperately hungry.
article_snippet.sent: Kyli Wilfson, a self-confessed ‘food person’, was 26 when A young woman first started experiencing agonizing pain – which made A young woman feel like A young woman had been ‘kicked in the abdomen' –
article_snippet.sent: whenever A young woman ate, a symptom which doctors initially brushed off as being due to a mild pancreatic problem which would ‘resolve itself’ in a matter of days.
article_snippet.sent: Mystery illness: Kyli Wolfson, pictured, had trouble getting a correct diagnosis when A young woman woke up in excruciating pain in October 2012; A young woman illness left A young woman unable to eat for a year and a half .
article_snippet.sent: At first, doctors faced difficulties even diagnosing Kyli; though A young woman'd had digestive problems for years, A young woman rare disease wasn't initially considered.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, doctors at A young woman local ER insisted that A young woman had acute pancreatitis, a condition that commonly effects heavy drinkers.
article_snippet.sent: However, Kyli's pain continued to return every time A young woman tried to eat anything —
article_snippet.sent: even soup — leading A young woman to visit two more hospitals in search of a new diagnosis and a cure. '
article_snippet.sent: It never even changed,' A young woman said, explaining that when A young woman tried to eat, it felt like A young woman was burning on the inside. '
article_snippet.sent: Three months after A young woman first visit to the emergency room, A young woman was finally diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis, a condition A young woman had likely had since birth but was only found after doctors put a camera down A young woman throat to A young woman pancreas — a potentially life-threatening procedure that was only tried after all other options had been exhausted.
highlights_snippet.sent: Kyli Wolfson, 29, felt severe pain whenever Kyli Wolfson ate thanks to the disorder, which developed in October 2012, when Kyli Wolfson was 26 .
  