Quotes About Diagnosis

Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.

Being reliant on legal aid is probably inconceivable to most of us. But this is no different from other branches of the welfare state established at the same time as our legal aid system - being diagnosed with a major illness and needing the NHS, or losing a job and needing the support of social security.

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

I did think I might be perimenopausal rather than pregnant.

My back was starting to deteriorate and basically what happened was I just couldn't walk after a couple of matches here and there. I never had an MRI and I never knew what was going on in my body for so long, and then it was coming to point where I was always wrestling and not being able to walk after.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

I got diabetes.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

My mom was diagnosed at the age of 46 with ovarian cancer.

I was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus Type 1.

I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer when she was 47.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.

Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their brains began deteriorating long before that.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

My mom was actually diagnosed with breast cancer when I was five.

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

I've never said I have OCD, as I haven't been diagnosed.

I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it's something I've been battling most of my life.