animal,
Welcome to our group. I hope we can be of service to you.
For years my doctors told me that my list of medical complaints (symptoms) were psychogenic. They called me a malingerer, and worse. Then, one day, my cousin called and said that our family harbored a genetic disease. None of the doctors who had called me a hypochondriac had thought to test for this disease. Overnight I went from being a hypochondriac to becoming an interesting patient. At the medical school the professors used me for research projects and as a subject to instruct their students. A medical geneticist was especially interested, and put me through more exams than I care to remember.
Psychogenic? Well, yes indeed. Managing my medical situation is both physically and psychologically stressful. But there is another good reason why I'm stressed. All those years when doctors, who should have known better, were not curious enough to order the tests and examinations which would have pinpointed this disease. My cousin had to do their work for them.
Too often the diagnosis "psychogenic" is just an excuse a doctor uses to explain something he/she is too lazy to investigate further.
Don't give up. Doctors know a lot; they've spent large fractions of their lives learning human biology. But they do not know everything.
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