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I'm in my thirties and had unresolved medical issues for a decade. And in that time experienced much of our health system including visiting psychologists and t
by throwawayiIiIII 7y ago
I'm in my thirties and had unresolved medical issues for a decade.
And in that time experienced much of our health system including visiting psychologists and taking antidepressants.
And nothing really helped.
The only thing that happened is that I learned to live with it.
The only constant in all is an allergy and a cyst causing constant swelling and inflammation.
The technical appearance of this, and lab results, never looks very bad, and doctors are quick to discard the cyst as a source of my problems.
I'm at the end of my wits, and my mind and body are deteriorating further and I find it hard to muster up the energy to try and resolve this with ever more visits to doctors.
My physicians are not concerned enough to try and resolve this quickly, because I still appear fine. I can function normally for a while. But working 9-5 and having a life is honestly above my limit.
I don't dare press the issue too much because doctors are quick to jump to psychological-issues-are-the-source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_symptom_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_symptom_disorder) .
Physician visits and different things are spaced so widely that a lot of times passes, and I'm still supposed to wait longer and go step-by-step.
After all this time, and a lot chasing ideas and trying out smaller remedies, I arrived at the conclusion/idea that it was the cyst and the inflammation and possibly recurrent colonisation with bacertia from it all along. The cyst that I was told was not an issue.
It's a miracle that I founded and still have a family.
I appreciate all the good things I received and achieved, but honest to god large parts of the way were miserable, and I'm afraid to find out that it's not going to get better.
P.S.: Sorry for venting
- treeman79 7y agoSomewhat similar. 3 years of intense effort to find out what was wrong. Constantly told it was depression or anxiety. Turned out it was an auto immune problem. Anti depressants made me care less about problems but didn’t fix them.
- H_Pylori 7y agoI don't have hard data on this, but judging from hundreds, if not thousands, of comments I've read throughout the internet, the misdiagnosis of autoimmune and immune-related diseases as depression is extremely common, so common in fact that I think it will be considered a medical scandal in the future, just like lobotomy it is considered today. The diagnosis of "depression", that doctors seem to be giving away so easily, could be more readily explainable as sickness behaviour[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness_behavior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness_behavior
- H_Pylori 7y agoI'm in a similar boat. I don't go to the doctor anymore, I don't like my symptoms to be blamed on an inexistent depression. If I understand correctly you had your cyst removed. Did all your symptoms go away?