anonymous, United States
I took vitamins thinking that I could prevent and treat whatever ailed me. I ate very healthy organic and exercised. I didn't manage my stress well and I thought was my abdominal upset was from an old ovarian cyst. But I also had weight loss, night sweats, easy bruising, all occurring within a period of a year. I brushed off my symptoms, as did one physician's assistant, agreeing that I had thin skin, early menopause and work stress as the source of feeling bad. My most frequent symptom was feeling like someone dropped a load of bricks on me and still I looked very healthy. All along the aggressive Large B cell Lymphomas were growing in my mesentery, Even when the doctor suspected something serious, I kept thinking he was wrong. I was very wrong and shouldn't have waited the extra few months to have a physician investigate. I'm glad that my doctor listened to me when I told him about my extreme fatigue and didn't think it was just stress and early menopause. He saved my life.