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Hi Tatia thanks for your support; i'm glad to hear i'm not alone and there are a lot of people with similar stories like mine.
No doctors didn't check my blood potassium; i talked about hypokalemic paralisys because it can be associated with MG and the features of this illness are quite similar to my symptoms during those crisis. then the crisis can be also MG crisis because i had difficult in breathing too but even hypokalemic crisis has this characteristic so it's difficult to know if i had one or another because of lack of tests like blood test or EMG during these crisis. I think doctors didn't do any kind of test because they thought since beginning it was a psychiatric disorder catatonic one so biased against me having so a really wrong behaviour. Cristina ![]() |
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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. |
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