Lindsey Burwell got caught in a cycle where each medical test result, even minor ones, convinced her something was broken. The more she tested, the more anxious she became, ordering more tests to find answers that never came.
I became a little addicted with data. I really became addicted in the sense of I needed the test to tell me what was wrong with my body. But the problem was every time I got the test back, seeing the things that were wrong and they weren't huge, I wasn't dying. It was like low in this, low in that, or this was off, that was off, right? And it really crippled me. It really made me feel like something was off, something was broken. And then I felt like there was a need to do another test.
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