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Misdiagnosed

Women are all too familiar with the struggle to get their symptoms taken seriously by doctors. These are their stories, plus pro tips for how you can take charge of that gut feeling that something's wrong.

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'Doctors Continually Dismissed My Chest Pain, and Weeks Later I Had a Massive Heart Attack'

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My Vagina Felt Like It Was on Fire for a Year—but Doctors Kept Telling Me It Was Just a Yeast Infection

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Doctors Blamed This Woman's Chronic Cough on Acid Reflux—But a Mass Was Actually Pushing Into Her Lung

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This Woman Had Burning Breast Pain, but 4 Doctors Told Her 'Breast Cancer Doesn't Hurt'

What Doctors Thought Was Just This Woman’s Reaction to the COVID Vaccine Turned Out to Be Breast Cancer

What Doctors Thought Was Just This Woman's Reaction to the COVID Vaccine Turned Out to Be Breast Cancer

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Doctors Dismissed the Lump on My Neck as a 'Swollen Lymph Node' for 5 Years—but It Turned Out to Be Cancer

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This Woman Refused to Leave the Hospital Until Doctors Properly Diagnosed Her Terrible Pelvic Pain

Misdiagnosed: It Took 10 Years of Seizures for This Woman to Get Diagnosed With Epilepsy

It Took 10 Years of Seizures for This Woman to Be Diagnosed With Epilepsy

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A Doctor Told This 24-Year-Old the Red Bumps Covering Her Body Were Bug Bites—But She Actually Had Psoriasis

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This Woman's 'Gluten Intolerance' Turned Out to Be Uterine Cancer

This 24-Year-Old Discovered She Had Pulsatile Tinnitus After Posting Her Symptoms in a Facebook Group

My Doctor Dismissed My MS Symptoms as 'Stress'—Even Though My Body Was Going Numb

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When This Woman Went to Her Doctor With Lyme Disease Symptoms, She Was Told She Should "Try Meditation"

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Doctors Thought I Had MS, Chronic Fatigue, and a Heart Condition Before I Got the Right Diagnosis: Anxiety

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The Lump in My Breast Was Growing—but My Doctor Kept Dismissing the Possibility That It Was Cancer

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Degenerative Disc Disease Was Causing My Crippling Back Pain, but Doctors Blamed My Posture, My Purse, Even MS

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It Took 2 Years of Unexplained Symptoms Before Doctors Finally Diagnosed Me With Type 1 Diabetes

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Doctors Kept Dismissing My Back Pain—Until I Was Finally Diagnosed With Terminal Cancer

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Before She Was Diagnosed With Small Fiber Polyneuropathy, Doctors Misdiagnosed This Woman's Pain for 18 Years

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I Had Symptoms of Preeclampsia During My Pregnancy—but My Ob-Gyn Kept Shaming Me for My Weight Gain

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Before She Was Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis, This Dancer and DJ Saw 14 Specialists

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Doctors Completely Missed My Brain Swelling and Sent Me to a Mental Health Facility for Schizophrenia Instead

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My Constant Insomnia Turned Out to Be a Symptom of a Rare Disorder Called Hypophosphatasia

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This Woman Had Endometriosis Since She Was a Teen, but Doctors Insisted Her Symptoms Were All in Her Head

For 6 Years, Doctors Kept Telling Me I Had PMS—but It Turned Out to Be Brain Cancer

A Doctor Told This New Mom to Lose Weight—but It Turned Out She Had Cancer

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My Doctor Misdiagnosed Me With Seasonal Allergies—but I Actually Had Lung Cancer That Spread to My Brain

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