INVESTIGATION – “stab” in the eye, congestioned nostril, unilateral pain, jaw that slams or blocks … Behind these harmless symptoms are hiding poorly diagnosed pathologies. And years of wandering.
The day of her first crisis, Fanny* was twelve years old. The age when young girls stay on the phone with their best girlfriend or beg their parents to buy the last fashionable bag. Her, her “Tapped the head against the walls hoping that it makes the pain pass”.
For more than ten years, the young woman lived with an unknown evil, blooming her eye cyclically on one side of the facial for hours, without her family doctor never finding the cause or the remedy. “I was told about tension, stress, chronic fatigue. At each meeting, it was a different word ”remembers the thirties, that no paracetamol brochure could then relieve, pushing it to consider the worst. “Several times I said to myself” tomorrow morning I will be dead “. Not because I wanted to die, but because the pain was so unbearable that it seemed the only way out. ” He had to wait for his 22 years and a move to finally obtain a diagnosis: Fanny is suffering from a …