Medical Mystery (Vent)
(context: I’m 17 and A trans man, I do not pass as male so I do appear to some as female)
I’ve had symptoms of what i suspect Tourette’s since I was about ten years old or possibly younger. I suffered from rage, insomnia, hard blinking, and as I got older they became more promintent, from an occasional neck jerk or whine to “My body feels like it will self destroy if I don’t move or say something RIGHT NOW”
and it’s hell
so naturally I go to see a neurologist after a particularly bad tic attack that brought me to the emergency room, there I was told by a neurologist who after seeing ptsd in my profile (who I was already distrustful of due to previous bad medical experience) my symptoms were functional neurological disorder, (I lack nearly all other symptoms of FND) and to attend therapy. He didn’t deny that my symptoms could be organic and to come back within 8 weeks.
still I question my own gut feeling, especially considering the symptoms I’ve shown since childhood and the fact that tourettes can present differently in those assigned female at birth.
I‘m tired of feeling like I’m some anomaly who gets therapy and antidepressants all while still suffering without answers.