What small symptoms led to massive health issues for you? I owe my life to my barber. When I was 17,

he noticed a mole on the top of my head. He said I should get that looked at. Two things could

have happened here. One, I could have brushed it off. Two, he didn't have to say anything.

Anyways, I went to get it checked out and ended up having it cut out with a scalpel. Turns out it

was cancerous, but at the very early stages. They did a little more cutting and were able to get it checked out and ended up having it cut out with a scalpel. Turns out it was cancerous,

but at the very early stages. They did a little more cutting and were able to get everything out.

Almost 20 years ago, and life is good. Anything that's persistent. If it's not going away,

it's not just anything, and it needs to be looked at. Persistent, raging heartburn. I was young and dumb

and uninsured, so I put it off. I put it off for nearly three months, by which point I was

subsisting on plain yogurt and lentils, and still having extremely painful bouts of heartburn

and emptying my guts into the toilet. I'd lost a lot of weight and was consistently exhausted

and in pain. I finally went to the doctor. It was a a lot of weight and was consistently exhausted and in pain.

I finally went to the doctor. It was a raging case of H. Pylori infection. It was cleared up with

antibiotics, but my doctor warned me at the time that I'd probably caused irreversible damage to my

stomach and digestive system by waiting so long. She was right. Within a year, the heartburn was back,

along with nausea, and emptying my

guts again. I essentially gave myself a chronic disease by ignoring the initial infection.

Moral of the story, if it keeps coming back, don't ignore it. What could have been treatable

before will turn into something worse. Increasingly painful cramps and nasty PMS symptoms in general.

The family doctor attributed the change to age and just wouldn't take it seriously.

After a year of complaints, the doctor prescribed birth control pills, which did nothing.

After two years, I finally lost it and cried in her office.

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