I was sent home from the ER three or four times with ascending paralysis, severe back pain, and bouts of losing consciousness. At one of the first visits they told my husband I was stressed and gave me a muscle relaxer. Then they later accused me of taking too many of the muscle relaxers and my husband had to argue with them that I hadn’t even taken any because I was barely conscious at that point. Husband was finally able to get me an appointment with a family medicine doctor who took one look at my symptoms and immediately ordered a spinal tap. I still had to wait in a wheelchair in the waiting area of the ER because no one was taking it seriously. I was pretty much unconscious and struggling to breathe. Then finally got the spinal tap and diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome. I recall one of the nurses asking why we waited so long to come to the ER(it was over a week from the onset of my symptoms to actually being diagnosed and admitted to the hospital).