My Misdiagnosis

Jean has spent the first 30 years of her life struggling to walk under a diagnosis of spastic diplegia - a form of cerebral palsy. As her symptoms begin to worsen, she begins to lose hope until a new doctor offers a correct diagnosis and treatment that will change her life. A small blemish on Harresons nose leads to emotional and physically scarring surgery that disfigures his face. He finally receives the correct diagnosis that could have prevented all of his pain and suffering from the beginning.

After a freak accident injures her elbow, the surgery Cindy receives leaves other doctors perplexed because theyve never heard of it before, and Cindy barely unable to move her arm. 10 years later, Cindy hopes that one final surgery can finally give relief and heal her elbow. Kirsten becomes sick with a mystery illness that immobilizes her and has doctors labeling her with a variety of diagnosiss that covers everything - except the right one. She feels her life is over until the correct diagnosis offers some relief, but also a knowledge that she will be suffering from it for the rest of her life.

Crystal is an active young woman that suddenly starts losing all her energy and she feels like a shell of herself with symptoms piling up on top each other. She is told she has Hashimotos Thyroiditis, but that doesnt explain why she has to be rushed to the hospital. Crystal struggles to continue fighting for real diagnosis before she loses all hope. As a child, Marisa feels ill but is told she just has a cold. When she starts coughing up blood - something she had never done before - her mom realizes something is very wrong. Her symptoms are similar to a variety of other diseases that make it difficult for doctors to find out whats causing the issues. The correct diagnosis proves more difficult to manage than she would have thought - with her health hanging in the balance.

Marji is involved in a major car accident and subsequently finds herself in tremendous pain that doctors tell her is Ankylosing Spondilitis, which affects her spine. But that diagnosis is soon disproven leaving Marji still in pain and still searching for the cause of her pain. Mark experiences intense stomach pain and he feels bloated after eating food. He is dismissed by a variety of doctors that are unable to diagnosis him, and continues to suffer for years. After many trips to the ER for surgery, Mark is desperate for answers and relief.

Marie starts experiencing symptoms doctors diagnose as Vertigo, and it continues to ramp up to the point where she can barely stand up and it feels like shes having a stroke. That incorrect diagnosis would be better for Marie than what doctors eventually find. Latoya is cautiously optimistic when she is told she is pregnant again, as her first pregnancy was classified as pre-eclampsia. She experiences problems with her new pregnancy and the excitement goes away as shes told she has miscarried, but its possible the doctors missed something.

Promising track star Emily is bound for a career in athletics before intense stomach pain puts her on the sidelines and she is diagnosed with IBS. But the pain endures as Emily keeps trying different treatments and medications before the right diagnosis is discovered leaving Emily to wonder whats next - and why wasnt it found earlier? A seemingly innocent mark on her Carries big toe is initially dismissed by a dermatologist. The mark spreads over the nail eventually leading to the correct diagnosis, but at a cost to Carrie that could have been avoided if she was properly diagnosed the first time.

Samantha is a student that starts to get abdomen pains making it difficult to function. The doctor tells her it is just stress and gives her painkillers, but the pain never goes away. Samantha struggles with in agony as doctors work to find the right diagnosis. Laura injures her shoulder in a workplace accident and is told that its dislocated, making it impossible for her to even hold her children. The pain persists and eventually the correct diagnosis is discovered with surgery suggested - but she is then told she is too young for it leaving her wondering how she can get better.

Terri is an IT Specialist that enjoys helping others at work, but feels hopeless after she is diagnosed by doctors with hemorrhoids, which doesnt seem right to her. The real diagnosis is something much more severe and hits extremely close to home. Melinda is a nurse that starts to experience an accelerated heart beat that is diagnosed as stress and anxiety. She is given pain medication that doesnt help and a lack of compassion from her doctors leads Melinda to question everything she is going through. A chance meeting with a friend puts her on a path to healing - something her doctors werent able to do.

Ted is a laborer whose hands all of a sudden start to tingle - that sensation soon spreads up his arms making it difficult for him to even put on a shirt. Initially diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Teds pain spreads to his legs, leaving doctors baffled at what could be causing this. Tammy was an active child but was always sick, which continued throughout her teenage and adult years. Constipation and an accelerated heart beat leads to a diagnosis of Lupus - but that diagnosis is wrong, and Tammys last hope is that a biopsy will finally reveal the source of her suffering.

Kerry was treated differently from others growing up and she could never understand why, until she was diagnosed as bipolar. But the medication shes prescribed does more harm than good and its not until she sees similar behavior in her young son that shes able to point doctors in the direction of the correct diagnosis. At work, Ariel hurts his shoulder making it almost impossible to continue at his job. Doctors tell him its a shoulder sprain, but the treatments arent helping and doctors are unable to figure out whats wrong. Ariel is running out of options and reaches out to an old teacher that helps put Ariel on the path to healing.

Janice is injured in a car accident and starts having severe stomach issues that doctors diagnose as IBS. But after fainting spells, an inability to eat food, and trouble with day-to-day life, Janice is desperate for the right diagnose that will end her suffering and put her on the road to recovery. Holly is a young mother of two that is excited to be pregnant again - until she starts heavily bleeding. Fearing she lost the baby, doctors suggest shes actually still pregnant. But Hollys health gets worse and its soon clear that her - and her babys - life is in jeopardy.

Karen has been getting stomach pains and migraines for most of her life - that leads to her getting heavy periods and rapid weight loss and weight gain. Doctors tell her its just depression and chronic fatigue, but the pain that shes in tells a different story and Karen is desperate for a doctor to take her seriously and help her get better before she loses all hope. Janis is a fitness studio owner and being healthy has always been a part of her life. She starts to get a mysterious pain in her abdomen that completely slows her down and endangers her career. Doctors diagnosis her with gas, but Janis doesnt agree and struggles to fight for herself to get doctors to keep trying to find an answer.

In her teens, Samantha is told by doctors that the painful periods she was experiencing were nothing to worry about. Birth control pills and anti-inflammatory medication didnt help at all and Samantha was still in pain. After doing research on her own, Samantha has to try to convince her doctor what she has, but at this point will they listen? Brett is a self-employed civil engineer that starts developing back pain. Various doctors are unable to identify the cause of the back pain, so they prescribe different pills and antibiotics that affect his liver so much that other doctors thought he was an alcoholic and were reluctant to treat him. He has to keep fighting for himself and the correct diagnosis which will change his life forever.