Article (Australia): I'm 18 years old and living with three chronic conditions you can't see - Feb 2020

Sly Saint · Feb 27, 2020

You may not be able to see Chloe’s medical conditions, but before you judge her she wants you to know they are there, they are real, and she’s not alone.

With the support from my Mum, who has battled her own auto immune disease, we started doing our own research in the hope for some other answers. We discovered fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis, more commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). While they were certainly not conditions I wanted to have, I seemed to tick all the boxes, and it gave me some clarity.

I went back to the GP and asked her if that’s what I could be suffering from – she shut me down straight away, telling me she didn’t believe in those conditions. I remember feeling utterly defeated. I started doubting myself and began to feel scared that I was going, for lack of a better word, crazy. I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety. I was alive but not actually ‘living’. I saw no light at the end of the tunnel and lost a lot of hope.
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...To make matters even worse, not long after getting these diagnoses, I was also diagnosed with endometriosis – a condition where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus is found in places outside the uterus, where it doesn’t belong. It causes extreme pain, pelvic dysfunction and inflammation.
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https://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight...with-three-chronic-conditions-you-can-t-see_1

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