After 10 years of being dismissed, I found my diagnosis through my own lab results. Sayis is the tool I wish I had.
For ten years, I was dismissed. Told my symptoms were stress. Told I needed to lose weight, sleep more, worry less. I was on Medicaid with few options and even fewer answers. Every doctor visit felt like being talked at, never talked with.
At one point, a doctor told me to see a psychiatrist. When I mentioned I had lost a few pounds, I was laughed at. I was treated as a nuisance, as someone wasting their time. I stopped mentioning symptoms because what was the point? I had lost hope. I genuinely did not believe I would ever have an answer.
I crawled out of that despair quietly, on my own. I balanced what I could health-wise, kept moving forward, earned my master's in biomedical science, and enrolled in medical school. In my second year of medical school, I was finally diagnosed with a pituitary adenoma causing Cushing's Disease.
How was I diagnosed? I ordered my own labs. I sat with every result, every number, and searched what it meant. When I noticed something off with my potassium, I cross-referenced it with every symptom I had been carrying for years. Cushing's Disease came up every single time. By the time I sat in front of a specialist, I already knew.
Not everyone has that privilege. Most people aren't in medical school. Most people don't know what to look for, what questions to ask, or what that low potassium number might be whispering. Most people are just hoping their doctor will figure it out. That's exactly why Sayis Health exists.