Wetzstein says her life is controlled by pain Maybe I am making this up.'” Replying to ♬ You? – Two Feet “My whole life, as much as I’ve known something is wrong … there’s always that part of you that goes well, ‘maybe they’re right. I have flashbacks to every single time I’m telling the doctor … it feels like I’m being stabbed,” she recalled. I’m having flashbacks because I have so much medical PTSD. The diagnosis has “changed my whole life,” Wetzstein said. Her results came back showing she had adenomyosis, which the Mayo Clinic explains occurs when the tissue that normally lines the uterus grows into the muscular wall and can enlarge the uterus. Despite her doctor insisting her pain was irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and anxiety-related, she had an eighth ultrasound. “I’ve seen more psychiatrists than I’ve seen gastroenterologists or gynecologists,” she said.Īfter Wetzstein found a new general practitioner in BC last fall, she demanded they look into her symptoms further. Jessica Wetzstein told Daily Hive that when she visited clinics and hospitals crying over her knifelike pelvic pain, she’d been called hysterical, an attention seeker and that she needed to stop wasting medical resources. ![]() ![]() It’s taken over a decade for a 28-year-old Canadian woman to be diagnosed with a condition that proved the debilitating pain she told countless physicians she was experiencing was not in her head.
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