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He Saw 11 Doctors in 1 Year and Got No Answers. Here's What They All Missed

Conquering Your Fibromyalgia

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Chris spent a year bouncing between specialists — neurologists, rheumatologists, GI doctors — and every single test came back normal. But he wasn't making it up. Here's the clinical explanation no one gave him.

In this video, Dr. Michael Lenz, MD (Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Lifestyle Medicine) reacts to Chris from the Auticate channel — a late-diagnosed autistic man living with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and multi-system symptoms — to break down exactly what 11 doctors missed and why it keeps happening to patients like him.

What we cover:
• Why "normal test results" don't mean you're not sick
• The autism–fibromyalgia–central sensitization connection
• How one condition explains GI issues, sleep disruption, skin sensitivity, and chronic pain all at once
• Why a compartmentalized medical system keeps failing people with invisible illness
• What self-advocacy actually looks like when the system isn't built for you

If you've ever been told "everything looks fine" and you know something is wrong — this video is for you. You are not alone. Your pain is real.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS
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00:00 Introduction — Audi's year of no answers
01:17 Why "normal tests" don't mean you're not sick
03:00 Central sensitization explained
04:19 The gut-brain axis and digestive symptoms
06:05 The autism and fibromyalgia connection
13:51 ADHD, POTS, and multi-system overlap
19:35 Sensory overload in medical environments
22:33 Why compartmentalized medicine fails complex patients

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⚠️ DISCLAIMER
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This video is for educational purposes only. All signs, symptoms, and treatments should be discussed with your personal physician.

#fibromyalgia #invisibleillness #autism #chronicillness #centralizedpain

20 Comments

@eadiesharp7725 2 months ago

Why am I, at nearly 70, able to relate to this 100%? 🥺

@CarolThompsonEA 1 month ago

Right. Normal. Uh huh. I watched one podcast about ADHD, Autism, Fibromyalgia, dry eyes, dry mouth, full body nerve pain, IBS, etc, etc, etc.

I'm 78. In 20 minutes I saw my entire life on my phone.

AuDHD. And virtually every thing in this episode.

Thank you. It might be too late to do much for me, but praying that younger people see this and push their doctors to pay attention.

@alisalavine1052 2 months ago

Even if the tests come back with markers that are indicative of a disease, if the numbers aren't high enough then you are left without a diagnosis.

It took 30+ years of surgeries, chronic pain, extremity weakness, severe dry eyes and mouth, plus a whole menagerie of symptoms before ONE test showed that I was dealing with a heavy autoimmune disease burden.

I have answers and treatment now but the damage is extensive. Because my numbers weren't high enough.🤔

@elizabethwarman9028 2 months ago

Dr. Lenz, thank you.
I am severely ADHD. Now I seeing my ADHD in childhood with my allergies to horses, cats, flowers with Asthma attacks. My nervous leg movements. Never doing my best. My anxiety, like right now, fight or flight over taking a shower, because I am hyperfocused on falling in the shower.
All of your videos speaks to me.
But also my maternal Grandma. Everything you said describes her.

@rayhar1182 2 months ago

I've really hit the wall, can't continue to pad their paychecks.

@Gypsy1961 1 month ago

We need a list of doctors who watch this and understand! It's so hard to deal with the doctors...you can have a list of what's going on, but some doctors only want one thing to focus on..how do you pick whats worse?
I'm really seeing the autistic side now and I'm 65...no one has ever suggested this.

@What2B 2 months ago (edited)

I related to all the stressers around the doctor appointment. Lately it's gotten even worse as some doctors are charging fees up to $75 for being late.
I haven't heard there's any compensation if we have to wait a half hour or more in their bright, scary waiting rooms.
Should'nt the doctors have something like a cuss jar so if they're late we get compensated from the late fees funds.

@suedinym1 2 months ago

I've got pretty much everything Chris talked about here going on. I never went to all those doctors in the same year. After I had the upper and lower GI back in the late 70s and they said they could do exploratory surgery because they couldn't find anything I stopped trying to figure that one out. I've only been able to afford one particular type of specialist in a given year with similar conclusions. If you can't find it with imaging, blood tests, sleep studies, or solve it with medications,etc I don't think you're going to find it with a knife! But no doctor ever suggested autism or ADHD. They don't seem to have time to listen to the whole story and my records have gotten lost moving between eight states and two continents.

@lindawatmore3321 2 months ago

Negative feedback from doctors and nurses and patients developing high blood pressure associated with white coats hypertension and fear of being mistreated and misdiagnosed and dismissed by doctors is a contributing factor for many patients suffering from real problems but they never had the right answers and diagnosed with the right diagnosis. This is so common in many cases today and people are suffering because they are treated differently and seen as waisting the time of doctors and claiming that their symptoms are in their heads because they cannot find the correct answer to their problems.

@Von_Daheim 2 months ago

100% + a tumor illness in the scull that was not found because i was labled as hypochondirac, and still over 10 years after the tumor was found/removed and a lot of postoprerativ problems + another tumor later i still can't shake off the label to be a hypochondriac...

@pkwork 2 months ago

Has anyone checked to see if life expectancy rates for autistic people are going up now that more of us elderly 70+ are being diagnosed?

@brandiweston8719 1 month ago

OMG I'm crying. Finally it's explained.

@JoAnnNelson-r3g 2 months ago

Year after year, appointment after appointment, passed from one specialist to another, and still no answers. My improvement and management of symptoms is largely due to my own intellectual curiosity. But, I wish I could find a doctor who had the ability and scope to help me manage my health. The medical system is exhausting for those of us that don’t have the major three. Hypertension, diabetes or heart disease. 😢

@BarbaraCronin-e3m 1 month ago (edited)

I put my symptoms into AI, and ask it to summarise my symptoms and anxieties. I find it very helpful, even just me , reading it helps put things into perspective, before an appointment. But it doesn’t matter, it took 30 years of suffering before a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and ADHD and that because I diagnosed myself , went to my GP and said , send me to someone who can make it official. Getting helpful care? Impossible! Ai is also helpful, when compiling your life story, whenever you think of or remember things, ask Chat or whatever to put it into your life story. My life is so taken up, with anxiety , day to day treatments and medications, anxiety and lack of sleep, I can’t possibly remember it all.

@squeaker19694 2 months ago

Holy smokes! Lots of these conditions. And a full blown medical phobia.

@charlottewilson4279 2 months ago

👵I purchased a grounding/earthing pad that goes under my bottom sheet. It was afew weeks when I noticed that the desire 2 curl up into the fetal position subsided and the frequent visits 2 the bathroom lessened. God bless. 🤗❤️🙏

@ChildofGod-b1v 2 months ago

My theory about fibromyalgia is that it's actually elhers-danlos but with very mild inflamation that instead of being harmful it's actually healing small damages to the soft tissues but also causing stiffness at the same time which means you won't pass the beighton score and won't get daignosed with eds.