Actress Selma Blair discusses her struggles with receiving a proper diagnosis and treatment for her multiple sclerosis.
She recounts instances of being dismissed by doctors and facing gender bias in medical care, leading to a prolonged period of suffering and self-doubt.
“I just cried. I had no capability to process,” she said of being told to get a boyfriend. (Trending: Chilling Surveillance Program Under Biden Exposed)
“What am I supposed to do with this information? I knew the pain was real.”
“I thought it was, but I did start to convince myself, ‘You’re overly sensitive. There’s nothing wrong with you. Get it together, you lazy, lazy whatever,'” she said.
“I had a fever of 101 [degrees] for five years, you know. It just never went away.”
“I had CAT scans. I didn’t have bladder function… I mean I spent my entire childhood on high antibiotics until I developed anaphylaxis like all of them. And yet it was just like, ‘Oh this dramatic girl.’”
“So that became my character and I’d blame myself. So I had a lot of medical trauma,” she stated.
“When I was older there was so much medical trauma of always seeking. And doctors, really, they’re taking advantage of that time or really just not seeing me, and it was a gender bias,” she exclaimed.
“There would be a boy in my grade that would go in for the exact same chronic headache and fever, and he is, you know, in surgery and [given] a MRI within the week.”
“I was never given an MRI even though I always had headaches and [a] fever, and balance [problems], or my leg didn’t work. But they just said, ‘Oh, it’s just dramatic.'”
“The period from 3 [years old] until about five years ago was hell on earth for me,” she recalled.
“And I’m not saying I had a horrible life. But the amount of discomfort, disbelief from kids at school, all the doctors, I couldn’t trust myself. They were saying, ‘There’s nothing wrong with you.'”
Blair continues to cope with health issues related to MS, including spasmodic dysphonia, but is currently in remission.
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