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A girl in her thirties comes down with a bunch of strange symptoms. Insomnia, pain, digestive problems, lightheartedness, depression. She goes to a bunch of doctors, half of whom think she is nuts. Those that don't interpret the symptoms as diseases in the areas they treat. rheumatologist says she has raynaud's and tests her for lupus and other autoimmune diseases. Everything comes back negative. They bill it under the diagnosis code for autoimmune unspecified. Integrated medicine thinks it is a gut disorder. Puts her on macrobiotics bills under cronic fatigue. primary care doc puts her on ambien "take as needed," and SSRIs. Writes visit as for depression. Someone has the bight idea to give her a inhaler so she can test herself for sports induced asthma.
I can go on and on. and an going to doctors, having them investigate some symptom and coming up empty with a negative diagnosis.
Then she finally sees a good internal medicine doctor. who finally finds a chronic viral disease that previously went undetected. This is the correct diagnosis. For the sake of this hypothetical matter, let's call it chronic Epstein-Barr virus. When properly treated with antivirals over a few months recover is made and the underlying symptoms disappear with time.
It could have been an autoimmune disease, arthritis, a gut disease, or anything else. But as medical care goes for women (and some men too) that struggle to get a diagnosis, they get a very long medical history and a lot of conditioning getting labeled in their medical record that are replaced by the correct diagnosis when it is eventually identified months or years or decades later.
Here is the challenge. She now has had 30 doctors appointments in the last year with 12 different doctors.
This is an extremely normal pattern for diagnosing diseases in women taking years (and some men too)
What is the correct way to report all this information to the FAA --without lying --but also without over reporting? Is it proper to just list the diagnosis as EBV infection and leave out the pages and pages of incorrect diagnosis and symptoms? (but obviously listing the doctors visited as required and stating "symptoms reported. no diagnosis discovered)
I can go on and on. and an going to doctors, having them investigate some symptom and coming up empty with a negative diagnosis.
Then she finally sees a good internal medicine doctor. who finally finds a chronic viral disease that previously went undetected. This is the correct diagnosis. For the sake of this hypothetical matter, let's call it chronic Epstein-Barr virus. When properly treated with antivirals over a few months recover is made and the underlying symptoms disappear with time.
It could have been an autoimmune disease, arthritis, a gut disease, or anything else. But as medical care goes for women (and some men too) that struggle to get a diagnosis, they get a very long medical history and a lot of conditioning getting labeled in their medical record that are replaced by the correct diagnosis when it is eventually identified months or years or decades later.
Here is the challenge. She now has had 30 doctors appointments in the last year with 12 different doctors.
This is an extremely normal pattern for diagnosing diseases in women taking years (and some men too)
What is the correct way to report all this information to the FAA --without lying --but also without over reporting? Is it proper to just list the diagnosis as EBV infection and leave out the pages and pages of incorrect diagnosis and symptoms? (but obviously listing the doctors visited as required and stating "symptoms reported. no diagnosis discovered)
