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Dr. Diana, both a doctor (therapeutic optometrist), and a recovered POTS and ME/CFS patient, offers help and hope for POTS, Dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Lyme, vascular abnormalities, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Diana is now working full time at POTS Care.

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Reply To: The Problems with a Conversion Disorder "Diagnosis"

NEW STUDY! Parasym Plus™ for Multiple Sclerosis › Forums › PrettyIll.com Discussion › Coping › The Problems with a Conversion Disorder "Diagnosis" › Reply To: The Problems with a Conversion Disorder "Diagnosis"

May 31, 2015 at 10:50 am #5500
Dr. Diana
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Hi Skylark and welcome! I don’t think you (and Mogthedog) are alone in being diagnosed with a conversion disorder, as you have found. This is a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning all other physical causes need to be ruled out first. I have no doubt that many people with diagnoses of conversion disorders, somatic disorders, and other psychiatric disorders have an undiagnosed physical problem. We need to keep digging for the causes because once they are found and properly treated, the psychiatric symptoms can go away. As a patient, I think I experienced most every psychiatric symptom out there (yeeks!), yet all have resolved WITHOUT medication typically prescribed for such illnesses. Clearly, we are missing too much. Thanks for joining us!

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