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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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336 points glasscannon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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nwienert ◴[04 Jul 25 13:33 UTC] No.44464404[source]▶
As someone who had years of undiagnosable pain and after many years (and more than one doctor trying to suggest it was all in my head) I just want to say to anyone reading who has it -

Don’t let yourself be gaslit that it’s all mental. It seems some do have that, but there are also many hard to diagnose and completely valid physical health conditions that cause terrible chronic pain. And don’t give up on trying to find out what they are. Once I did, I was able to largely manage mine, and more importantly, to stop constantly questioning my own sanity.

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1. matwood ◴[05 Jul 25 07:53 UTC] No.44470903[source]▶
> Don’t let yourself be gaslit that it’s all mental.

This is a big problem women have around menstrual cycle pain. "It's normal" is what many doctors say - particularly men. A woman I know was basically bed ridden for a couple days/month until she found a doctor who believed her and addressed the problem.