She said that “all women have abdominal pain,” Bland recalled, then prescribed a drug to treat acid reflux. When the rheumatologist told Bland she had neither lupus nor a sluggish thyroid, she began to cry. The scan revealed that Bland appeared to have two sometimes interrelated conditions: pelvic congestion syndrome and the less common nutcracker syndrome. After reading an explicit warning on the website of a support group for nutcracker patients, she canceled the procedure. Game changeRedfield said he often speaks with the spouses of potential transplant patients whose marriages and other relationships are strained.

Source: Washington Post October 24, 2020 14:03 UTC