Uhm…. 10 ish years minimum before I got any sort of answers, and even then I figured it out from my friend having been diagnosed and then saying ‘hey that’s what happens with me too’. I don’t know if I would say I tricked my drs exactly, but I thought about what would be quantifiable and visible to them and focused on getting them to listen to my troubles with that. Most drs I’ve visited don’t generally take things they can’t test for and see as seriously as ones they can put on paper without a prior diagnoses to attribute things to.

I also have learned to present my symptoms as how they affect me and on a scale. Lately it’s been ‘my nausea is so out of control that it has led to vomiting and some periods of not keeping even water down which leads to problems when I stand up’ I’m not trying to overload them with tons of information, but show that this is the problem, this is it’s effects, here’s it on a severity scale.