Friday, December 26, 2014

Let the test tell you the results, not the other way around

Just a reminder. When it comes to testing, walk through the door with an open mind. People with chronic illness often do a lot of research on their condition (or suspected conditon). We read the literature and we find symptoms that are eerily similar to our own. In doing this we start to develop presuppositions about what is going on with us. For many of us diagnosis is years in coming. And this time we are sure we know what had been going on in our bodies. We walk through the door just knowing what the test results will be. 
And then they are the opposite of our expectations. And we are angry and tired and heartbroken. We question our sanity, we question the competency of those working on our case, and it is easy to spiral into blame and bitterness. 
Please, learn to go into your testing with an open mind. After all, you don't want your symptoms to conform to a certain disease pattern. You want to find the disease pattern that causes your symptoms and fix it. Being diagnosed with a disease that you don't have may vindicate you, but in the end it doesn't help you improve your health or quality of life.
That being said, if you think your test was not preformed correctly or light have been influenced by some other factor, request that it be redone. Ask that your doctor revisit the dingosis.

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