Comment on Living with AutoImmune Diseases by Kaitlyn Miller.
I’m 25, undiagnosed, and I feel alone. I’ve been told I have, anxiety, asthma, and IBS, yet those just didn’t seem right. I’ve never been an anxious person before, it just doesn’t calculate. I try to tell family members that I think it’s autoimmune (it runs in the family), yet they too think I’m a hypochondriac. I have a laundry list of symptoms, I’ve seen gastros, gynecologists, General practitioners, psychologists, whom don’t seem to find an answer. Do you know of any support groups out there for people like me? I’m young, and it’s terrifying to read these comments where people say it’s taken years for a diagnosis! Sometimes, I want to throw in the towel and accept the fact it could be anxiety, succumb to pressures of doctors thinking nothing is wrong, but I know deep down that I am not healthy, that this isn’t how the old me once felt, and that I don’t deserve to be ignored. Thank you for your post. I’m finding these silver cloud linings of hope out there through places like your blog.