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Make It Simple

130. How to Advocate For Your Health: My Hip Misdiagnosis

Make It Simple

Andrea Allen

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Education, Fitness, How To

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode Andrea encourages the importance of advocating for your own health. This means that you feel empowered to speak up, ask questions, get your needs and concerns addressed and also have preferences. Your doctor should feel like a team mate in the journey to your health recovery. Andrea shares her personal story of her diagnosis of a debilitating hip condition, AVN. Despite being told nothing would help, she persisted and set out on a journey to advocate for her health. Can she...

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0:00.0

Well, hello there, welcome back. I want you to know that I'm coming into today's

0:05.4

episode with a lot of fire in my soul and that is because I've realized more

0:11.6

over the last year how much advocating for your health really

0:16.4

truly matters.

0:18.5

And I'm hoping more than anything that sharing my story and giving you tips helps you to advocate for your health and

0:26.4

empowers you to research and to ask questions and to listen to your gut when it's telling you things about yourself or even about your kids.

0:37.0

You know your kids. You know their behaviors and you know your own body.

0:41.0

So I hope that this experience that I have had with my hip and a

0:47.8

complete merry-go-round, truthfully it's been a merry-go-round with my hip of what's

0:51.5

going on is helpful for you and helps give you strength to

0:56.6

keep going when you are dealing with a medical issue, whether it be an actual injury or an autoimmune or a hormone imbalance,

1:06.7

whatever it is, that you can keep going and find some answers and figure out something that you can feel good about and you can be a part of that journey

1:16.0

and not just be told what's wrong with you but truly be a part of it as an advocate.

1:21.1

Because in my situation, if I had just went with what I was being told, I would have had hip

1:26.7

replacement which now I know I don't need at this time and I'm going to explain that all in detail.

1:32.8

Now if you find this episode helpful and you want to spread the word to other people that we need to advocate for our health and to be aware and speak up,

1:41.2

please don't forget to share this episode with your friends

1:45.0

with your family on social media and don't forget to let me know what you thought of

1:49.4

it by writing a review today's review is by Dotted 77 titled Love It.

1:54.4

Andrea talks about health fitness, women's issues and sounds like a genuine

1:58.3

sweetheart. If you want good health information delivered in an easy way to

2:01.9

understand, she's your

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