** it took years of testing and running around and bull shit and know nothing doctors and getting poked with dirty needles from shit specialists that don't even sterilize their equipment (followed up by blood tests for any diseases from said unsanitary places)

Just to tell me what I already knew and had been telling them

And I didn't even try for years after I was aware of the problem and what it was

I've been fed steroids and opioids and tramadol and other narcotics... I've been treated like I was making it up. I've been told to try ice packs and heating pads. (As if that actually fixes the problem)

I had xrays of my neck multiple times over years and nothing seemed wrong ... but my neck was abnormally straight (yeah because there's no cartridge) until one day someone finally told me what I already knew - I just didn't know how bad

Then my insurance went from 45 a month to 65 then I didn't pay for 3 months... got it paid off and paid the next month then they tried to charge over 600 and they were told to get fucked and the account was canceled.

But it didn't really matter

Every time I saw one doctor it was just go get more blood work for about a year or so

And that was because I was fed up and told her to test for lupus

Which turned into yeah you have it but we don't know how bad

And then they never knew

You have to get tested when you have a flare up which is unpredictable

To get an accurate reading

And every few months they would just send me at random times

It's just exhausting

And there's a lot of incompetence

And you have to do what they say so they can figure out if they guessed right