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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How Doctors Misdiagnosed Chest Pain as an Anxiety Attack
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Vaginal Burning—One Individual's Story of a Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Diagnosis
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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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Could Burning Breast Pain Be a Sign of Breast Cancer?
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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Swollen Lymph Node 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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My Lyme Disease Symptoms Were Misdiagnosed
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How to Avoid Medical Gaslighting
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Before I Got an Anxiety Diagnosis Doctors Thought I Had MS, Chronic Fatigue, and a Heart Condition
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Breast Cancer Misdiagnosed as a Cyst
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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 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 Preeclampsia Symptoms During My Pregnancy—but My OB-GYN Missed Them
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Dancer Visited Multiple Specialists Before Finally Being Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis
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Misdiagnosed Brain Swelling Sent Me to a Mental Health Facility for Schizophrenia Instead
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How Constant Insomnia Signaled Hypophosphatasia a Rare Soft Bone Disorder
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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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How to Actually Get Your Doctor to Listen to You
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One in 10 People With Any of These 3 Serious Conditions Will Be Misdiagnosed, a New Study Says—Here's Why
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I Had an Eating Disorder for 21 Years—but Doctors Wouldn't Diagnose Me With Anorexia Because of My Weight
My Doctor Misdiagnosed Me With Seasonal Allergies—but I Actually Had Lung Cancer That Spread to My Brain
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4 Signs You Should See Another Doctor for a Second Opinion