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faerywyrm

4w

For me, diagnoses multiply as I age. It usually takes a year or two to recognize new symptoms as something other than side effects of existing meds, then another year or three to get the new diagnosis... have to make sure it's the proper fit.
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Bre19

4w

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StressBear

4w

It took me about a year and a half for POTS. I was lucky enough to have access to research articles so I already knew who I needed to go to for a diagnosis. I was gaslit by my primary care saying anxiety was causing me to blackout getting up from the couch. I may have fibbed to get a referral to a cardiologist and told him I had chest pain (enough though it was from asthma). It ended up working out and I now have an amazing cardiologist that knew what POTS was and tested me for that among others.
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Bre19

4w

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SwordInTheDarkness

4w

Looking back, I think I had cyclothymic disorder (a sort of preliminary bipolar, to put it extremely simply) for many years before I started presenting symptoms that finally got me diagnosed with BP1. But once I had a psychotic episode that hospitalized me, it was a pretty quick and easy diagnoses. So you could say years, or you could say not long at all.
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Bre19

4w

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HydrangeaBouquet

4w

26 years for EDS!
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Bre19

4w

thats insane
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EmptyVase

4w

I am still waiting. The drs can’t figure me out
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Bre19

3w

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TJ82

4w

I was diagnosed with postnatal depression when my daughter was about 2 months old and after she was forcibly adopted when she was between 6 months old and 8 months old, she's 22 years old now, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. I was diagnosed with PCOS in either 2014/15 and that took years to be diagnosed with. I was diagnosed with asthma when I was in high school. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2022, high blood pressure in February 23. I was also diagnosed with the start of a cataract in either my left eye earlier this year and my sleep apnea diagnosis was on the 30th of September this year.
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Bre19

3w

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krissy5219

4w

I had to wait over 17 years to get a diagnosis as an adult.
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Bre19

3w

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F8

3w

Which one?
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Bre19

2w

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ChronicallyKiwi

3w

Doctors have really just now figured me out. Started having symptoms at age two… diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome at 15. Diagnosed with dysautonomia at 14 then pots at 19. Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis age 18. And a TON of other smaller diagnoses thrown in there in different places of a seventeen year span.
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Bre19

2w

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CaptainToast

2w

So my first was at 7ish. It was hell to be diagnosed because my first doctor didn't believe in mental disorders. Now with my ADHD I know I have it, but my doc doesn't listen so I am waiting to get diagnosed until I get a new doc
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Bre19

2w

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Bovine_Obsessed

2w

21 years for ASD and 14 years for the hEDS and Mast Cell, 7 years for the pain conditions. (To be fair I reacted more to a paper cut than broken spine, casually couldn't walk up stairs and never complained assumed that people understood that the problem hadn't stoped if I don't mention it again(why would I repeat with no update))
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Bre19

2w

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Mili63

2w

It took my doctors 1 month to get the right diagnosis. My doctor at first thought it was cervical cancel I took a ultra sound and biopsy and her final diagnosis is uterine cancer . She referred me to a specialist. I have to take a CT scan and some blood work and in couple of weeks I'm getting a hysterectomy.
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Bre19

2w

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JustASystemsurviving

1w

12-13 years

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