Having spent her childhood climbing trees and hiking in the wilderness, Mikayla Vacher was stumped by the exhaustion that hit her at 13 years old.
The adventurous little Rhode Island girl lost her energy for everything. She felt achy, tired, hopeless, with severe migraines and rashes.
But when her mother took her to various primary care doctors to check out her symptoms, they almost laughed at her melodrama.
Each one of her complaints was dismissed as 'in her head', and she was referred again and again to psychiatrists to deal with her supposed depression. Even her friends and some family members agreed, saying she was overreacting. It reached a point, Mikayla says, where she started to believe that she was making it up.
However, as she was pumped with anxiety medication, every therapist she was sent to was baffled: 'You don't have depression,' they said.
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6 comments:
My wife has it and not one doc on the shore treats it!!! It took her chiropractor to recomend the test for lyme
That's what soldiers with PTSD find out they have when they see a nonVA doctor. Lyme's disease causes similar reactions to PTSD but the medication is vastly different.
Its easier to call people crazy or mentally unstable and pump them full of drugs that can drive them crazy instead of doing a battery of test that may find the underlying problem. Smh
6:49 there is no money in cures!!!!! Think about that real hard!!!!
I believe there is a Lyme specialist in Stevensville...
Doctors are not as smart as they think they are. I wonder just where in their class they graduated? Dead last or at the top? I had kidney stone problems and was treated for it and was told the stone was gone. Then was told later it was still there. Then I was told I had two stones, after I told them I had passed one when they told me the stone was still there again. I was told one it was 2 cm. Then the next time I had pain, suddenly it was 3/4 inch. Anything to make a dollar I guess. I do not trust any of them. It's all about money.
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