A WOMAN has described her experience in hospital as “absolutely disgusting” after waiting 18 months for a correct diagnosis.

Tracey Angel says she was ‘let down’ by doctors at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

“I was going into hospital regularly with stroke-like symptoms," she said. "I was left on the trolley in the hallway for hours, I couldn’t speak and couldn’t swallow. They said it was stress.”

“I was going back home crying, thinking, 'They’re not listening to me'."

Ms Angel has spoken out about her experience in 2014 now after reading a story in the Worcester News last month about Michelle Hill, who received an apology from the hospital for treatment she described as ‘disgusting.”

Ms Angel, 43, decided to see a private neurologist and was eventually diagnosed with post traumatic conversion disorder after being attacked while living in Hereford in 2009.

After the assault, she fled to Worcester and lived at charity Headway’s complex in Perdiswell.

She left Worcester four years ago and now lives in Wales, and has carers to help her at home as well as having cognitive behavioural therapy and psychotherapy.

“I’ve had to start my life all over again," she said. "I’ve had to learn to speak and swallow again. My memory is affected.”

Ms Angel also requires a walking stick and suffers with facial drooping, a symptom of her condition which causes one side of her her face to drop sometimes.

Letters from Worcestershire Royal to Ms Angel in 2014 contain apologies for her having to wait 18 months for a correct diagnosis.