"It’s just asthma." - Two days later ER myocarditis, four weeks in hospital.
"You’ve had a thorough workup and you're fine. You need to stop seeking specialists and move on with your life." - I had Sjögren's syndrome.
"There are no side effects to this drug." - I proceeded to have side effects.
"You couldn’t possibly react to that." - I reacted to it.
"You're fine. It's just allergies." - I had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
"It’s postpartum depression" - When it was actually Lyme disease.
"The reason you’re in so much pain is you’re depressed." - Kidney cancer.
"Are you sure you were not just high or drunk?" - ER anaphylaxis.
"You can't possibly have MCAS." - My biopsy CD117 said otherwise.
"None of these medications have the side effects you are reporting." - Except they were listed in the info packet.
"Your symptoms are all just anxiety." - Acute pancreatitis.
"Food doesn't do that." - Positive ISAC 112 test.
"Lyme doesn’t exist in this area so you don’t have it." - Positive Lyme iGenix test.
“I think you're faking it for attention.” - My heart rate was 180 and blood pressure was 145/110.
"You lose your vision when you stand up because you’re a female" - Really because of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.
"It's pseudo-seizures and subconscious attention seeking behavior. It can't hurt you. The ER can't really do anything for it, so you don't need to come in when you feel that way." - I was in the ER for anaphylaxis.
"It's just menopause." - It was gut dysbiosis and mycotoxins.
"You're just stressed." - That week I had a heart attack due to histamines.