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Speaker 1: It was like somebody's stabbing on the side of the

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Speaker 1: head with an ice pick, and everything sort of went blurry.

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Speaker 2: The disease is like a crow flying through the dark night.

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Speaker 2: Patients go months or years incurring damage in all of

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Speaker 2: these organs.

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Speaker 3: How do you identify something you can't see.

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Speaker 4: Going to the emergency room, They're not going to do

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Speaker 4: anything for me. I've done that before. I've gone to

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Speaker 4: see culp and I'm just pushed aside.

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Speaker 3: Something you know is there but can't trace.

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Speaker 5: That's what I knew. I couldn't control, and that's what

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Speaker 5: I knew. You have a disease of some sort.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't explain it, A threat always lurking under the surface.

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Speaker 3: I'm Lauren bray pacheco host of Symptomatic, a medical mystery

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Speaker 3: podcast where we investigate the nature of rare conditions, shape

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Speaker 3: shifting diseases, and the extraordinary lengths patients will go in

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Speaker 3: search of a diagnosis.

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Speaker 4: I didn't have the answer yet. I was terrified of

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Speaker 4: the unknown.

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Speaker 1: It's like the mystery of a lifetime.

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Speaker 3: This season, Symptomatic follows people who refuse to give up

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Speaker 3: their search for answers, leaving no stone unturned to uncover

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Speaker 3: the truth behind their symptoms.

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Speaker 1: So I just decided I have to fix this.

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Speaker 4: And this is my life, and this is something I've

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Speaker 4: been struggling with for for too long.

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Speaker 5: If you're looking at it without understanding the disease, you're

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Speaker 5: just looking at a collection of symptoms that aren't connected.

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Speaker 1: For the first time, it occurred to me, maybe this

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Speaker 1: is all sort of one thing.

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Speaker 4: I'm not afraid to stand up for myself.

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Speaker 5: We're starting to realize that there's so much more underneath

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Speaker 5: the surface that we didn't see before.

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Speaker 3: Join us for all new episodes where we dive into

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Speaker 3: the medical unknown to investigate the mysteries of chronic illness.

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Speaker 1: Whatever this is. It's killing me and I need to

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Speaker 1: know what it is. I wasn't ready to die.

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Speaker 3: This is symptomatic. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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