Ruby.

I wasn't willing to risk being held back in boot camp, so I just kept pushing through.

The pain got so bad within an instant, it just kind of went black.

In this letter, she wrote, when I woke up, I woke up to a crime scene and physically dying.

Only now that we're starting to have these conversations and talk about how a lot of women face dismissal and having their complaints ignored.

She had, like, turned the screen away from me.

The energy in the room shifted. The radiology

department, they all turned their head and looked at me. I walked out of that ultrasound thinking I had

cancer. I was terrified of the unknown. How terrifying would it be to fight an unknown enemy?

One you didn't recognize and didn't see coming.

What if that enemy was coming from within?

A disease that even doctors couldn't identify.

Nearly half of Americans suffer from some chronic illness and many struggle for an accurate diagnosis.

These are their stories.

I'm Lauren Bright Pacheco, and this is symptomatic.

I grew up in Southern California, the high desert area specifically. It's just me, my mom, my brothers.

We have a really, really good relationship. That's Haley Griffith. Haley radiates quiet positivity

and genuine warmth. She is deeply creative, authentic, and a naturally born mentor. This quality showed up early in

life when she harnessed her passion for dance into teaching. I grew up doing competitive dance.

For basically my entire life, I went into teaching when I was around 15. That was my first job, actually. And you spent a lot of time in the dance

studio, which could explain the fact that you actually got your period while in dance class, correct?

I did. Yes, that was a crazy time. I was about 11 years old. I was in ballet class and I had started my cycle

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