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Spent several hours on Sunday collecting names and phone numbers and everything of about 10 different psychiatrists sorted by increasing distance from home (since there are only 2 covered by my insurance here in my university's entire city, despite it being the 3rd biggest in the state). Was planning to call as many as it took this morning to
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Is it worth taking pictures for a rheumatologist? And when it comes to rheumy/autoimmune stuff, I get the impression ANA's more prognostic than diagnostic - have you had a dsDNA? 'Cause that plus the malar rash - I think you only need two other criteria for lupus. Fibro's a bit vaguer, but since it's got a very high co-incidence with stress/depression and it's now officially a Real Thing, surely they don't just tell you you're Just Going Mad?
That was the impression I got from the rheum consultants when I was on-rotation, anyway, so hopefully it's similar in the States.
As for dissociation (mine went bad yesterday, yuck), is it possible that these are still panic attacks, only manifesting differently because you were dissociating? Idk.
...so yeah, I'm also one of the 'This is horrible but also weirdly interesting and I shall hypothesise' scientist-people. Feel free to tell me to bugger off.
But, . I hope you make it to the party-ball-thing and that you have fun and that good stuff will start happening for you again soon.
xx
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