This is for the people who see a list of diagnoses like mine and think, "Wow, that person must be a great actress. She's clearly done research and faked the symptoms to trick doctors into thinking she has all those illnesses."
That's not how it works. You can't fake test results.
It went more like this: I say I feel bad. Doctors run a lot of tests. They put me in big machines, stick me with needles, and make me drink weird shit. Then they make me have a surgery, take pills, or wear glasses with prisms.
Age 7: What's wrong with me?
Doctors: Your urine goes backwards due to kidney reflux disease. You need surgery.
Age 10: What's wrong with me?
Doctors: You have migraines. You may grow out of them or have them your whole life. Take pills.
Early 20s: What's wrong with me?
Doctors: You're getting kidney infections. Your surgery makes you more susceptible. You'll probably always get them. Have some antibiotics.
Early 30s: What's wrong with me?
Doctors: You have low vitamin D. Take pills.
Mid 30s: What's wrong with me?
Doctors, after reproductive imaging and neurological testing including a brain MRI: You have fibromyalgia, PTSD, OCD, & social anxiety. Take pills.
Late 30s: What's wrong with me?
Doctors, after an endoscopy, a heart ultrasound & Holter monitor, etc: You have GERD, low magnesium, and low potassium. Pills.
Age 40: What's wrong with me?
Doctors, after an ultrasound and bloodwork: You have a little dysautonomia and reactive hypoglycemia. It's from Hashimoto's. And you're probably perimenopausal, but we have to do more bloodwork to be sure. Another pill.
Me: What's wrong with me now?
Doctors, after a CT scan, a HIDA, another endoscopy, and a colonoscopy: You have NAFLD. And a kidney stone. And severe GERD. And chronic gastritis. And probably gastroparesis, but we have to do a gastric emptying study for that. More pills.
Me: Why do I have double vision?
A paramedic: IDK but you should really get evaluated for autism.
Doctors: You have BVD from 4th Cranial Nerve Palsy and you should go back to the neurologist. Here are some glasses with prism lenses.
Also me: I'm chronically ill and have multiple disabilities.
Some stranger: You don't look sick. You're too young to be unhealthy. You're not disabled. You just don't want to work
Okay, buddy. Why don't you and your ghost twin apparate the fuck up outta here before I beat you both with my floral cane?
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