Doctors said her constant exhaustion was due to depression and A-level stress... then she could barely walk

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A woman who was told by doctors her constant exhaustion was likely depression and A-level exam stress was left 'barely able to walk' after being diagnosed with a chronic illness.

Elizabeth Hope, then 18, remembers having painful headaches and falling asleep at 5pm every day while studying for her A-levels, in the hope of going to university to become a teacher.

Doctors initially put her drowsiness down to stress, depression and anxiety, but after regularly falling asleep at 5pm after school, she later discovered she ME, also know as chronic fatigue syndrome - a long term health condition which can make physical and mental tasks extremely tiring. READ MORE: 'I spent my wedding day in hospital after a motorbike crash...

I'm lucky to be alive' READ MORE: Ex-Premier League football scout saw GP as soon as he spotted symptom - then he received awful news Even going to the shop for 10 or 20 minutes was exhausting for Elizabeth, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, who could 'barely walk' and therefore decided to start using a wheelchair and pulled the plug on university.