You Might Have a Chronic Illness if:

You Might Have a Chronic Illness if: 

• You were told nothing was wrong months-years before a diagnosis was confirmed

• You have ever felt disappointed when a test comes back negative

• Rumours have been spread that you fake being sick

• You have peddlers in your dm's daily trying to sell you a 'cure' (that doesn't actually exist)

• You hear 'at least you don't have _____' (which is usually true, but doesn't often help us feel better)

• You feel guilty all the time about being caught in between being too sick and being not quite sick enough 

• You make a game out of guessing what caused a flare-up

• Your pharmacist and/or ER departments know exactly who you are 

• You don't often physically *look* ill and have been punished for that fact at some point

• You often find yourself in the waiting rooms of specialists whose primary patients are elderly

• You go back and forth between 'not letting the disease control you' and 'listening to your body' at different times in your life

• You realize that "Remission" does not always mean 'symptom-free' 

• You know more about medications and adverse reactions than a first-year pharmacology student

• You have been told, at least once, that it is all in your head