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In my experience, waiting for doctors appointments and test results is the hardest part of getting treated. When I was told I had a "brain tumor" (inaccurate, b
by chasingsparks 16y ago
In my experience, waiting for doctors appointments and test results is the hardest part of getting treated. When I was told I had a "brain tumor" (inaccurate, but verbatim) after a year of waiting, I actually smiled. I just was happy that finally something was happening.
Best of luck to you, but until they find something definitively, mind your sanity. Don't get too excited and wrapped up in Celiac yet; it might be the wrong diagnosis. Each time you get a wrong diagnosis, you drop a little lower. Being invested in a particular diagnosis and then having it be disproven is more like a free-fall.
- grandalf 16y agoThis is very good advice.
- pedalpete 16y agoI read Randy Pausch's book The Last Lecture yesterday, and in the book he mentions to ask "how soon can I get the results". As he only had months to live, he didn't want to wait around. He was always surprised at how big an effect that one question had in getting what he wanted. He just had to ask.
- savemylife 16y agoI very much agree. And for some reason doctors always deliver it like: "I have great news! We got your lab results back, and we can't find anything wrong with you! Wait, why aren't you smiling?" When you've been sick for a long time, and with no diagnosis, you'd actually be happy to hear that you have some horrible disease, if it means you can at least do something about it.