There’s been a few times in my life when I have struggled with my health and finally decided to go see a doctor so I could get some kind of diagnosis. Sometimes they have some suggested ideas, but more than a few times — they just don’t know. They’ll prescribe some meds and tell me to follow up with my primary care physician (which, to be fair, I don’t). But the prescriptions don’t really do much, and if the specialist can’t diagnose the issue, what is my PCP going to be able to figure out? So I just live with it and I end up sort of, kind of, just getting used to it.
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