The teenager burning from the inside: How a young woman lives with a rare condition that causes her to feel like she’s been ‘set on fire’ and causes pain ‘like childbirth’

A sprained ankle has lead a teenage girl to suffer ‘fire-like’ pain that doctors have compared to childbirth, leaving her seizuring for three hours and unable to bear a drop of water on her body.

As a sporty child, Moana Ruhfass was used to getting injured, but after the seemingly innocuous injury at athletics when she was 11, she didn’t bounce back.

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