Second opinion

By annoyed - 12/07/2021 21:01 - United Kingdom - Banbury

Today, after three years of being in physical pain, which affects my health and daily life, I was told it's an undiagnosable condition that I'll have to deal with for a long time, as there are no answers and no fixable solution. FML
I agree, your life sucks 999
You deserved it 57

Same thing different taste

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find yourself a research hospital call and ask them for help they usually have resources not available to local physicians and hospitals

kaymyname 7

I had too had chronic pain for over three years with no clear diagnosis. Standing up to brush my teeth or take a shower was so painful it would bring me to tears. It wasn't until I switched doctors (3 times) and actually had someone who cared and wanted help me.That doctor sent me to a rheumatologist and I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that there is no test for. I was just tested for every other immune disease and combined with my symptoms and blood work I was finally given a diagnosis. I was prescribed medication and its the best I've felt in years. There are doctors who will help! It may take awhile but you have to find them. Hang in there OP!

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find yourself a research hospital call and ask them for help they usually have resources not available to local physicians and hospitals

kaymyname 7

I had too had chronic pain for over three years with no clear diagnosis. Standing up to brush my teeth or take a shower was so painful it would bring me to tears. It wasn't until I switched doctors (3 times) and actually had someone who cared and wanted help me.That doctor sent me to a rheumatologist and I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that there is no test for. I was just tested for every other immune disease and combined with my symptoms and blood work I was finally given a diagnosis. I was prescribed medication and its the best I've felt in years. There are doctors who will help! It may take awhile but you have to find them. Hang in there OP!

I agree with both comments above. I also struggle with chronic pain, actually paralyzing me for several days at a time. It took 2 years, seeing several doctors and specialists and finally going to the Mayo Clinic to receive a diagnosis. Although the pain will never completely go away, medication, yoga and changes to my diet have made a massive difference. In my search for an answer I had two doctors in particular pretty much tell me exactly what you’ve been told. Don’t listen to them. Make sure to be referred to specialists as GPs aren’t always up to date on all issues, and if you can get to a medical research facility, do so.

Not as bad as some others here, but I suffered from weird leg pains at night which the orthopedist couldn't diagnose. Xrays came back normal, no arthritis or rheumatic condition. Then I started using a home exercise bike and did some stretching after that, which did away with the random pains. My guess is that it was the tendons or muscles that caused this, and just some light sport was enough to get rid of it.

Amanda G Rich 23

This is why I hate doctors. same happened to me but instead of pain it's constant vomiting and falling over. I can't work or function but can't get disability because it's undiagnosed. I would say go to other doctors, but that never helped me. Try to get into a mayo clinic. you'll have to apply like a dozen times because they usually deny people due to other more worrisome cases. But I think eventually they'll get you in. Gotta have some hope you know?

You might ask for a referral to physical therapy and see if a physical therapist can at least diagnose you. They tend to be more familiar with chronic pain causes, and sometimes their exercises help lower the pain, especially if you combine it with heat, baths, and massage when you can. (As weird as it sounds, I cannot overstate the helpfulness of 'soak hurting body in bath with Epsom salt bubble bath' in treatment. Even just relaxing your muscles will help--tense muscles make pain worse, and hot water + fancy salts works like magic. Hot springs are great too, if you're out on the West Coast.)