My Journey as a Chronic Pain Survivalist

Hello - thank you for coming to my youtube page. Between my pre-teen years and 18 years old, I dealt with chronic pain conditions and was told I was a hypochondriac and psychosomatic patient. I had been to several doctors and even the Stanford Clinic in California who failed to accurately diagnose me. After 6 years of pain and torture, when I was 18 I was diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis. Turned out that at that time my bladder was a complete ulcer exposing all my veins and nerves to what I ate and drank. I also started having fibromyalgia symptoms during my teenage years - one of the correct diagnoses I got over the course of 25 years. 

I was eventually diagnosed with Epstein Barr Virus, Fibromyalgia, Interstitial Cystitis, neuropathy, myopathy, and some back injury diagnoses. I was recently misdiagnosed with Lymes disease. 
As a SECONDARY diagnosis, I have depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Being secondary means it came AFTER my chronic pain started.