Violaine feels "disoriented" because she has no idea what's causing her symptoms despite undergoing a battery of tests.
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J’ai eu des batteries de tests, panoplies de tests pour voir s’il y avait quelque chose d’anormal. Donc tous les résultats sont parfaits, je suis en parfaite santé! Donc la vitamine D, je prends des suppléments de vitamine D. Mais c’est la seule anomalie qui a été constatée, puis j’ai tout eu les scans, IRM du cerveau. Donc tout ce qui est possible de faire, les écographies cardiaques, tests pulmonaires, tout sort parfait! Donc c’est vraiment désorientant de se voir si dysfonctionnelle. Puis qu’il n’y ait rien du tout qui paraisse dans les tests …
[I’ve had batteries of tests, a panoply of tests to see if there was anything abnormal. So all the results are perfect, I’m in perfect health! So the vitamin D, I take vitamin D supplements. But that’s the only abnormality that was found, and then I had all the scans, MRIs of the brain. So everything that’s possible to do, heart ultrasounds, lung tests, everything comes out perfect! So it’s really disorienting to see myself so dysfunctional. And that there’s nothing at all that shows up in the tests.] Translation from the original French.
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