'I've been trapped indoors for a decade at 24 - doctors have given up'

Elliot Webb was 14 when he started having health problems06:45, 07 Aug 2026A 24-year-old has spent the past decade “trapped” indoors, “viewing the world from (his) iPad”.‌He said crippling headaches leave him unable to stand for more than an hour a day and claimed doctors had “given up” on him. Elliot Webb, from Sedgley, West Midlands, was 14 when he began experiencing tingling in his fingers, pain in his legs and severe headaches.‌Scans in 2014 at Birmingham Children’s Hospital revealed he had Chiari malformation – a condition where the lower part of the brain extends into the spinal canal – alongside syringomyelia, a rare neurological disorder in which a fluid-filled cyst develops within the spinal cord. He underwent surgery to relieve pressure on his brain and spinal cord, but said he s