When I passed out in my car, in my house, on the street, or felt vertigo every few minutes, and had trouble breathing? When I found myself in the ER, shivering on a hot day, and my blood pressure dropping every time I stood up, and nobody could find anything wrong with me? How do I explain those things to you? When I couldn’t remember how to play the piano, I was just doing too much. When the pain in my fingers prevented me from playing the piano, I just needed to de-stress. When my feet started to hurt I was told it must be my running shoes. My Endocrinologist suspected I had Cushing’s Disease. My General doctor said I had Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Addison’s Disease. The Gastroenterologist said I had IBS when he performed both an upper endoscopy and a colonoscopy and found nothing else. The ENT said I’d had a chronic sinus infection possibly for years when he put a endoscopy up my nose. I already had a 2nd degree black belt in taekwondo, and I ran every day.
How do I tell you about the neurological symptoms that had doctors believing I had Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease or perhaps a brain tumor? How do I explain the severe back pain that had an Orthopedic surgeon sending me for a lumbar puncture to inject dye into my spinal fluid for a myelogram? The knee specialist injecting cortisone shots under my swollen knee caps to hopefully mitigate the pain there? My general doctor telling me that I must be gaining weight because I didn’t exercise enough?
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