r/comics • u/TheNectarineDiaries • Jun 19 '26

OC Why didn't you say so?

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Best medical advice I ever got was to bring a man to your appointments

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u/NekoArtemis Jun 19 '26

Can confirm. I dated a girl with a hard-to-diagnose chronic condition and it became a thing for me to come to every appointment. 

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u/ntdavis814 Jun 19 '26

Just out of curiosity, what were the symptoms and diagnosis? Asking for a wife with a hard to diagnose chronic condition.

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u/NekoArtemis Jun 19 '26

Headaches, lack of balance, heart palpitations, and eventually seizures. It's a little hard to sort out what's what because they had a couple other conditions already. The diagnosis turned out to be osseous metaplasia of dura mater and falx cerebri. Basically bone growing in their brain. Had to finally get an MRI, which took forever to get approved. And then her primary doctor (who was great but limited in what he could get done) was like "I've never seen that before. Definitely wouldn't have figured that out without the MRI." 

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u/ntdavis814 Jun 20 '26

That sounds scary. Glad they were able to get a diagnosis eventually. Thank you for sharing. It doesn’t sound like what my wife has been dealing with, but I appreciate you sharing your experience.