Christina,

I just wanted to let you know your not alone with this condition. While I can't say I've been treated as badly as you, I was sent to several psychologists and psychiatrists before being diagnosed with MG. I first started getting symptoms at college and after the third trip to the medical center, I was told I needed to see a psychologist before they'd treat me further. The first psychologist ascribed all my symptoms to loneliness and put me in a group therapy for learning how to make friends. My reaction was that my lack of friends was due to the fact that I could barely sit up and I had actual problems and didn't need to listen to people whine about their boy/girlfirends (in hindsight everyone there had problems, point is that I should never have been there).

After that, they sent me to a neuro-psychiatrist who should have looked for a neuro problem, but decided that my tiredness and weakness was due to depression. Problem is SSRI meds make my myasthenia worse, so he ended up making me worse.

Eventually, I did get an arthritis diagnosis for the physical problems, but my eye issues and tiredness were still dealt with as psych issues. It literally took a breathing issue during a surgery before they realized I had MG and all the things I'd been complaining about were real.

Hopefully you have a case against the hospital for your poor treatment. I just wanted to let you know you weren't alone with having trouble being diagnosed.