In 2011, when Ella Mills was 20, chronically ill, and bedridden with fatigue, migraines, and heart palpitations up to 190 beats per minute, she nearly passed out when standing. As a student at St. Andrews University, she had to sleep between 16 and 18 hours a day because the fatigue was unbearable.
“You’re so dizzy, it’s like your head’s disconnected from your body,” Mills recalls, who had to go home to manage the symptoms.
