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S.K. Hughes
Canadian Family Physician February 2020, 66 (2) 126;
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First-year resident in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
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I had hoped that my medical training would aid my understanding of my own health and journey with chronic pain and fatigue. I learned more about the stigma around fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome than I did about the pathophysiology. This has led me to bury this secret deeper, out of view of those who might use it to judge or harm me. “Allodynia” explores that experience and reflects on the health challenges that beset me as a teen.

Allodynia

I learned little about my old diagnosis

in becoming a doctor

Sticky note on rheumatologist’s reception wall read

Dr —— is NOT accepting fibromyalgia patients

Allodynia

touch from parent or lover

sent up the wrong path

and made into pain

My rheum at SickKids

shook my hand and wished me well

when I turned 18

Sickly doctor’s daughter

We flew to Hawaii for answers

as to why a vigorous preteen came to languish

and teem with discomfort

previously reserved for influenza

A full dosette:

ketoconazole

valganciclovir

acidophilus

pregnenolone

thyroid hormone (compounded in America)

sertraline (of course)

New afflictions came upon me in medical school

Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome

Plantar Fasciitis

and the surprise of Celiac Disease

The gastroenterologist asked

whether the fatigue had improved

I try not to think too much about it

My beloved biopsychosocial model

turned its looking glass upon me

What went wrong at 12?

My first love, after me, was wanted

by a long-haired girl with cervical cancer

I can’t be with another sick person

Of 26-hour internal medicine call

my mother said

we didn’t think you could do it

I just, did

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