Hey hey everyone, my first ever blog post ooooh how exciting for you all!!
As if you don't get enough of me lol. Well I have had this in the works for a while but hadn't actually done anything to set it up but I was just watching Greys Anatomy (ep 19 of season 9) and it really hit me.
The storyline I am talking about is a lady comes in with her son saying he is sick. She has been told by a doctor he has a virus but she is not convinced so she has come back to ask for more help. They do tests, it shows up that he has strep. She gets a prescription and leaves with her son. The next day she is back again, saying her son is getting worse not better. She has looked up on the internet and has this while big list of things it could be. She is going crazy not knowing what is going on but knows that there is something wrong with her son. The doctors are adamant that it is strep as that is what the test results said and they couldn't find anything else wrong with him. Nothing came up on the ct scan or on other blood tests. In doctor Greys words, 'if it walks like strep and talks like strep it must be strep' going on symptoms and blood test results. Ok so hours pass the mum is going crazy asking for help and they say sorry we cannot help we will have to discharge him. Short time later they are looking at his charts on their savvy new tablets they carry around and the results change from positive strep to negative which means it isn't strep. So any way they figured out quickly what was wrong with him and it was one of the things the mum had mentioned.
You may be wondering what my point is, or perhaps you have fallen asleep with boredom lol. My point is this.... We 'chronic pain and fatigue sufferers' spend so much time back and forward to the doctors trying to get help and for a lot of us it takes so long to finally get the right diagnosis. A few years ago I went through a period of having swine flu then glandular fever only to find out it was actually ulcers and a germ in my duodenum. Even once we find out what is wrong, when we go to the doctors we find ourselves continually being told that what is wrong with us is actually just a symptom of our already diagnosed illness. I have been told lots of times that it is just my Fibro, just my fibro, or before that it was all down to my underactive thyroid! Even though I knew it wasn't.
The reason I am talking about this is because I want you to remember that you know your body better than any doctor! So if you think something is wrong, chances are then something is wrong! Do not give up the fight no matter how tired and frustrated you get! It will be worth it in the end to finally get help for what you are suffering with.
Anyway guys it is 1:20am and I have to go to bed. I have a new beauty upload for you all later today. Hope you are looking forward to that. :-)
Love you all.
Lyndsey Milligan
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