Breanna’s story describes her experience from early teenage years in managing pain, fatigue and multiple health conditions with conflicting diagnoses.
“You don’t just have chronic pain, you have chronic pain with other conditions on top of it”
Pain and fatigue impacted every aspect of Breanna’s life. “It impacts your mood, it impacts how you interact with people, it impacts your study, it impacts your exercise, it impacts everything.”
Breanna talks about how pain was normalised so that she thought her experience was the same as young people. “I didn’t complain about it as I thought everyone was going through what I was”
At the time, she trusted what she was hearing from health professionals…she questioned it, but was shrugged aside. “This happened repeatedly, … so