[Celyn]

Hey Dez,

Sorry for the late reply. It must be really difficult for you to be bounced around to different health professionals only to find they contradict one another! Perhaps though this shows that sometimes professionals don't always get things right or agree on things and that some health issues aren't always so obvious to diagnose and treat. Though this doesn't help you with how to deal with contradicting professionals, it might help to keep things in perspective a bit.

Are you comfortable with seeing a new endocrinologist? If you are, then it might be worth going along and seeing what they have to say. Either your original endocrinologist was right and your new medication person wasn't, or the other way around. Though it can be confusing the more professionals that get involved, you may also be able to see which of your possible health issues is more accurate (the more professionals that can agree, the more likely the diagnosis/treatment option is correct).

I'm really sorry to hear that one of your favourite professors thinks a lot of what you are doing is self-induced and that you want to be sick. It's very understandable that you would've been upset on hearing this. Mental health is often compared to physical health in the sense that mental health is seen to be more complex e.g. you wouldn't tell someone with a broken leg to 'get over' it. But this devalues just how complicated physical health can be at times. They are also interlinked and this leads onto the next point that you mention a lot of your symptoms got better in the summer- stress can affect your physical health and cause many real physical symptoms, which can partly resolve when your stress levels go down. That doesn't mean to say that the physical symptoms aren't real though. You're not crazy, or making any of this up.

Keep us updated if it helps and hope others can chime in with some encouraging advice!