It felt like my doctors were playing a diagnosis guessing game
As told to Faigy Peritzman
I’m a busy mom of three, and I work full-time. So when I started feeling unwell in the spring of 2022, I didn’t pay much attention to my symptoms.
Covid was still around, but nobody was testing anymore, and besides, I’d already had Covid, plus I’d been vaccinated, so it was unlikely that it was the virus making me feel so run down. Still, I’d joke that maybe I was experiencing a weird manifestation of Covid.
I was just so tired. Not just the regular “mom who works full-time” tired, but a deep exhaustion — not my usual mode. Still, I was just too busy to pay real attention to myself or do anything about it.
Then I started feeling some odd symptoms. I’d experience recurring episodes of pain in my right eye that would last about five minutes and then go away. After a few days they stopped, and I forgot about it.
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