Chelle's Story: The 35 Year Headache

The Medical Detectives

Soft Skills Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

3.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For nearly 35 years Chelle lived with daily headaches, nausea, numbness, and overwhelming pressure in her head—symptoms repeatedly dismissed as anxiety or depression. But when her child’s medical crisis taught her to trust her instincts, she finally pushed for answers. In this episode, Chelle shares her decades-long journey of misdiagnosis, self-doubt, and dismissal before discovering the true cause.

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0:00.0	Hi, how are you? You know, I'm doing good. I'm doing the good. This episode resonated a lot with me because she talked a lot about this feeling of hope after getting an answer. And that is where I'm at right now.
0:21.6	So I felt like I was hearing somebody else's story, which is entirely different than mine,
0:26.9	but feeling those same emotions at the same time, which was kind of wild.
0:31.1	Yeah. I'd say it's unusual that we have a case where there's basically a cure, you know?
0:38.1	Yeah.
0:39.2	Yeah.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:40.9	Like an amazing happy ending.
0:44.1	It's also not great because she lived with us for a very, very long time when there was a cure.
0:52.8	With that, let's jump into what is a pretty wild episode.
0:57.0	But before we do, Erin, do you want to remind them of a few things?
1:01.6	Well, please, if you have a story that you would like to share with our audience,
1:07.7	please send it to stories at the medical detectivespodcast.com.
1:12.9	I don't know if you guys could hear, but I feel like I've been like I'm in the middle
1:16.7	of Times Square, this entire episode, all of the sirens have been going off.
1:21.6	And that's what we want you to do is to put this message on a billboard.
1:26.3	Tell your friends. Tell your friends.
1:28.1	Tell your mom.
1:29.2	Tell your mom's friend, Jean.
1:30.9	To listen to the podcast, rate the podcast if you love it.
1:34.3	And give us a follow on the social medias because we created this to create a community.
1:39.4	And the only way that works is with you.
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