It usually starts with a well-meaning sentence. Everything looks fine. Then a second opinion, and a third, all saying versions of the same thing, until eventually a person stops describing the pain accurately even to themselves.
Here is what I want to say to that, without any hedging: a normal test does not mean nothing is happening. It means that particular test did not find anything it was built to find.
Those are very different sentences. Only one of them is about you.
Your experience does not require a scan’s permission to be real.
Tissue tension, guarding patterns, restriction that has settled in slowly over years — much of this does not photograph. It is felt. It shows up in how you move through a doorway, how you sit down, what you have stopped doing without ever announcing it.
I am not saying anything against your medical team. Keep them. Their tools are important, and some questions genuinely need imaging to answer.
I am only saying that when the tools come up empty, the correct conclusion is not that you invented this. You are the one living in there. You have better data than anyone.
You are not imagining it. — Tammie
