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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Paige Oldfield & Milica Cosic

'I have months to live after doctor's mistook my stomach pains as Crohn's disease'

A woman has tragically been told she has months left to live, after doctors misdiagnosed her symptoms, as the family have set up a GoFindMe page to help find alternative treatments.

Alex Jamieson, 39, was informed by medics in June 2021 that she had bowel cancer, revealing that her world came crashing down when she received the news.

Despite feeling discomfort in her abdomen for years, doctors were unable to pinpoint the cause of her suffering and initially diagnosed her with Crohn's disease.

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