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📣 BrokenDigger

Anyone else had clean test results while their body was clearly broken?


Web director in Tokyo. My job is dashboards, attribution, A/B tests.

Five years of gut issues. Four doctors — psychiatrist, neurologist, two internists. Full workup including MRI. All four: "nothing abnormal."

The part I find interesting: I would not accept "nothing abnormal" from a work dashboard. If a metric goes flat I audit the measurement first. But a clean blood test closed the case on my own body for five years.

What finally broke the pattern: a CGM showing 240 mg/dL post-lunch, zero symptoms. Data and body completely disagreed. That gap was the first useful signal in years.

Curious if this "diagnostically invisible" phase resonates with anyone — where everything tests fine but something is clearly off.


  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
Yes.