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Haha, that’s cute. I’ll stop Googling my symptoms when I can get a doctor to take me seriously. But since I’m on record as having mental problems: My migraine attacks that present very similarly to seizures were “anxiety attacks”, my persistent migraine aura was just me being “a stoner” (I had never even tried pot), my fatigue was because I was “depressed” (I was anemic and I have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis), my headaches were just me drug seeking (the migraine medications I have now aren’t even opiods), my constant nosebleeds were from nose-picking (It was from all the over-the-counter pain killers I was taking for my migraine headaches), and when I started having trouble swallowing to the point that I could only take tiny baby sips of water, and still choked multiple times a day, it was my imagination (it was a reaction I had developed to a medication.)  Your medical degree is only as good as your ability to use it. Don’t confuse your misdiagnosis based on wrong assumptions with reality. And yes, I was finally diagnosed by specialists with migraine syndrome, migraine seizures, Hashimoto’s, and multiple food sensitivities. I’m not self diagnosed, but if you meet people who are, it’s probably because they’re grasping at straws after multiple negative interactions with shitty doctors. Arm yourself with information. Google that shit. Self advocate. You have the power. Use it. (Image taken from redbubble.com, but it’s an image I see all the time, everywhere.)

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