381: Long-COVID, Lyme disease & how to tell if your fatigue is something more serious | bestselling author Meghan O’Rourke

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Meghan O'Rourke: “Medicine is in the business of supporting patients, but too often medicine is actually crisis care.” O'Rourke, an award-winning writer, former editor at The New Yorker, and bestselling author. joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how she navigates her invisible illness, plus: - Why it took 20 years for her to finally get a diagnosis (~07:36) - What we're still getting wrong about Lyme disease (~12:04) - Why we shouldn't dismiss Long-COVID (~16:17) - Why fatigue is so difficult to explain to doctors (~20:37) - How to balance letting go & taking control of your health (~27:28) Referenced in the episode: - O'Rourke's book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. - Explore more of O'Rourke's work. - Learn more about Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. - Read more stories from mbg's invisible illness series. - Read about ambien and why the FDA cut recommended doses for women in half. Enjoy this episode sponsored by Manitoba Harvest! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. While some help this user visible to the outside world,
0:51.8	many people face chronic conditions that don't have externally visible signs or symptoms,
0:57.0	also known as invisible illnesses. And our invisible illness series here at MyBuddyGreen,
1:03.6	we give individuals a platform to share their personal experiences. Our hope is their stories
1:09.3	will shed light on these conditions and offer a solid area to others facing similar situations.
1:15.3	So be sure to look at our show notes for the links so you can check out our full series titled
1:21.1	Visible Elness. But that said, we are thrilled to dive into the very subject of invisible illness
1:28.3	with Megan O'Rourke, the author of the must read book titled Invisible Kingdom, reimagining
1:36.0	chronic illness. Megan, welcome. Thanks so much for having me, Jason. Great to have you. I loved
1:44.2	your book that the title is Invisible Kingdom and really speaks to the the heart of so many
1:50.8	things we're trying to do at MyBuddyGreen and uncover all of the crap that so many people are
1:56.6	dealing with who are going through invisible illnesses and you went through the ringer,
2:01.2	which you chronicle so beautifully in your book. So let's start there with your personal
2:07.2	health journey that led you to write this book. Yeah, as I say at the beginning of the book,
2:13.5	I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke, right, which is gradually and then suddenly. So
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