No End In Sight

Teona, a Black nonbinary woman in her 20s, looks into the camera with a relaxed expression. She is wearing wire-framed glasses and a silver septum ring. Her head is leaning on her hand, and she wears a rust orange shirt and green headwrap. The photo is framed by a stylized purple hexagon.

73 – Teona

Teona Studemire talks EDS, M.E., and public benefit programs.

72 – Emily

Emily Suess talks about brain cancer, misdiagnosis, and finding community outside of neat diagnostic categories.

Drew is a latinx person with light brown skin and short black hair. His septum is pierced with a silver hoop. In this photo he is sitting in the front seat of a car, smiling with his eyes closed. He is wearing a black tank top and proudly holding up a cane. There is a stylized purple hexagon framing the photo.

71 – Drew

New associate producer Drew Maar talks hypermobility, fibromyalgia, and borderline personality disorder (among many other things!).

Brianne, a white woman in her 30s wearing black framed glasses and brown hair in a messy bun, smiles at the camera. She is holding the pink epoxy handle of her blonde wood cane up beside her face. There is a stylized purple hexagon framing the photo.

70 – Brianne III

Brianne talks hypermobility, mast cell disorders, and recontextualizing old experiences using new frameworks.

Adriana, a woman in her 20s with dark brown hair in a curled formal style, smiles at the camera. There is a stylized purple hexagon framing the photo.

69 – Adriana

Adriana E. talks Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, finding a new balance after diagnosis, and unpacking your own internalized ableism.

Allie, a white woman in her 20s with long brown hair, smiles at the camera. There is a stylized purple hexagon framing the photo.

Allie Cashel talks lyme disease, medical gaslighting, and the power of storytelling. Allie shares her own story and the story of her book, Suffering the Silence, and the non-profit she co-founded that bears the same name.

Valerie, a woman with curly black hair and glasses smiles at the camera. There is a stylized purple hexagon framing the photo.

67 – Valerie

Valerie Novak talks fibro, POTS, borderline personality disorder, diagnostic ambiguity, and using mobility aids when your abilities fluctuate day to day.

66 – Caitlin

Caitlin talks epilepsy, EDS, and life with chronic pain.

Christie, a white woman with curly shoulder-length brown hair, smiles at the camera. There is a stylized purple hexagon framing the photo.

65 – Christie

Christie Margrave talks endometriosis, IVF, and the mix of emotions when a diagnosis comes decades after your symptoms first started.

64 – Patti

Patti about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and ADHD as well as medical gaslighting, mental health misdiagnoses, and growing up with an undiagnosed illness.

Looking for transcripts? Episodes 1-31, 54-57, 66 & 69 are fully transcribed.