
Confessions of a former hypocondriac
When I was in high school, I was highly competitive academically and was either in school or studying. At one point I felt so exhausted that I thought I had Lupus, and subjected myself to a battery of tests, where nothing was found. Later, in my thirties, I was working an office job in NYC and started having excruciating stomach pains. I was convinced it was a tumor. This time I had an endoscopy, and all they found was a sensitivity to gluten. What I didn’t know back then, wa