In January of 2020, I went to the doctor, for him to diagnose me with shingles. While I was there, I mentioned a lump I felt in my breast and arm pit and how painful they were. He said it was probably from the shingles. He scheduled me for a …
Read More »Susan’s Story (Mental Health – Major Unipolar Depression)
13 years ago, I was diagnosed with major depression and anxiety, also known as unipolar depression – an opposite of bipolar depression. At 21 years old, I felt so lost, confused, and scared. I was mostly filled with the negativity in my head, and consumed by self doubt. Always forcing …
Read More »Chantelle’s Story (Breast Cancer)
At 28 years old, I found a lump on my breast. It was a week after we celebrated my son’s birthday. I wasn’t even thinking that it could be cancer, but still, I decided to have it checked out. My doctor did a biopsy, then called me into his office …
Read More »Amaryllis’s Story (Breast Cancer)
I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer a month ago. I noticed that my breast was hard. So, I went in for a mammogram, ultrasound, and biopsy and that’s when I received my diagnosis. My double mastectomy is scheduled to be done soon. Thankfully, the genetic testing came back …
Read More »Abby’s Story (Breast Cancer)
The golf ball sized lump in my left breast appeared seemingly overnight. My PCP had done a breast exam at a checkup a few months prior. It was not there then, or at least we couldn’t feel it. I told myself, it appeared so fast, it had to be a …
Read More »Karen’s Story (Breast Cancer)
Breast cancer has been a part of my life since I was 12 years old. My mother was diagnosed when she was 42 years old. Roughly 10 years later, it came back metastatic and she passed away in 2000, at the age of 56. Ever since, I knew it was …
Read More »Katherine’s Story (POTS, PCOS, EDS, ATM mutation and grief)
Before even entering the 9th grade, I had already seen at least 5 different specialists who all seemed to come to the same conclusion; I was fine. No one could figure out what was wrong with me, the plethora of odd symptoms, the disorientation and dizziness, and the constant chest …
Read More »Angela’s Story (Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Migraines)
I suffer from a lot of different symptoms of several different conditions. In 2013, I was diagnosed as fibromyalgia and told I had symptoms and bloodwork that indicated rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without the rheumatoid factor. Almost two years ago, I got a positive ANA pointing to Lupus SLE, then another …
Read More »Susan’s Story (Multiple Sclerosis)
The First Signs On Thursday, August 26, 2004, I woke up with a slight pain above my right eyelid along with blurriness in my right eye and a headache. I called my family doctor and he told me if it wasn’t better by Friday to call back. When he called …
Read More »Melissa’s Story (Thyroid Cancer)
It started in 2014. I had not been feeling well for some months, like I had serious allergies, a little sore throat and some anxiety and stress. Not really having any major issues, I put it off for a while. Then I started with the ENT, and decided to get …
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