Season 1
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A woman battles her misdiagnosed illness, uncovering hidden truths while challenging the healthcare system that failed her.
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Jean has spent the first 30 years of her life struggling to walk under a diagnosis of spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy. A small blemish on Harreson's nose leads to emotional and physically scarring surgery that disfigures his face.
Erin is diagnosed with a Labral Tear in her hip after a pole-vaulting accident permanently grounds her track and field career. However, the two options for Erin after the right diagnosis is determined both carry with them pain and a long recovery that she won't be able to run away from. Jocelyn is diagnosed with an inner ear infection that keeps her in debilitating pain for days on end. It turns out the correct diagnosis that no doctor ever figured out has been with her since birth and could have killed her years ago - and still can.
After a freak accident injures her elbow, the surgery Cindy receives leaves other doctors perplexed because they've never heard of it before, and Cindy barely unable to move her arm. 10 years later, Cindy hopes that one final surgery can finally give relief and heal her elbow. Kirsten becomes sick with a mystery illness that immobilizes her and has doctors labeling her with a variety of diagnosis's that covers everything - except the right one. She feels her life is over until the correct diagnosis offers some relief, but also a knowledge that she will be suffering from it for the rest of her life.
Olivia's stomach starts giving her problems a couple of months before an international trip. But the antibiotics she is given do nothing except give her more pain. Months later, while studying In France, Olivia is admitted to a hospital where she battles not only her continued pain but also doctors who don't speak English. Stu's dramatic weight loss has doctors giving him a diagnosis of acid re-flux, but the treatments don't help at all and actually make things worse. The real diagnosis, however, leaves Stu in a state of shock at what doctors uncover.
Crystal is an active young woman that suddenly starts losing all her energy and she feels like a shell of herself with symptoms piling up on top each other. She is told she has Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, but that doesn't explain why she has to be rushed to the hospital. Crystal struggles to continue fighting for real diagnosis before she loses all hope. As a child, Marisa feels ill but is told she just has a cold. When she starts coughing up blood - something she had never done before - her mom realizes something is very wrong. Her symptoms are similar to a variety of other diseases that make it difficult for doctors to find out what's causing the issues. The correct diagnosis proves more difficult to manage than she would have thought - with her health hanging in the balance.
The show follows the cases of people who have been medically misdiagnosed--and their paths to obtaining the correct diagnosis and treatment.
