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Originally Posted by kazbates
Ricky, I'm going to assume that this was a "shot over my bow" and say that my In-Laws live with us and therefore I know exactly what medical conditions my Mother-In-Law has and which ones are manufactured for attention. I am not alone in this, my husband believes it as well. As it turns out, she has been checked for celiac disease and the test was negative as are the majority of the tests they run on her on a fairly frequent basis. The situation causes a great deal of stress in my family which we deal with to the best of our ability. I am not the type of person who would make a claim like this lightly or without cause.
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Not really a shot over your bow, considering your circumstances. But, seriously, even people I lived with for the better part of 17 years (in the case of my mother) and 7 years (in the case of my then boyfriend), kept telling me that all the pain I was suffering was "all in my head." The boyfriend actually used to tease me (pretty unmercifully) about my headaches and intestinal pain. And, he wanted to be a doctor!!
I'm just saying that you need to be seriously careful about labeling anyone as a hypochondriac. They may actually be one, or they may actually be sick in a physical sense and in a lot of pain. There are a lot of doctors that are amazingly crappy diagnosticians.
But, I'm not trying to fault you for sticking that label on your mother-in-law. If you are convinced that she is faking illness just to get attention, you are certainly in a much (much) better position to know than I. It's just that when I hear that word used, it always reminds me of that old headstone engraving: "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!!"
