Wonderful writing. I spent a year in a wheel chair before my doc figured out I had hypothyroidism! I guess I was so weak, or something, from low thyroid hormone levels that I could not walk more than a few feet without falling over and feeling faint. As soon as he started me on levoxyl, I arose from my wheel chair and walked. It was amazing but made me very angry.

Then I had to spend years fighting for pain meds because my pain "was just from depression" and I needed to get a job (I too had already had one and was on disability) or find something to do to keep me more active!!! Turned out I have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and arthritis in my lower back and sciatica. You describe perfectly the look on doctor's faces as soon as they hear my med list or that I have major depression and PTSD. GRRRRR.