#Redacted Science #nostr only mini-chapter [New Concept]
Title: The Dime on My Back
One of the earliest physical signs that something was wrong did not appear in a lab, an ultrasound, or a diagnosis. It appeared on my skin.
In the mid-1990s, during one of my first episodes of liver-region pain, the sensation was severe. It felt like gallbladder pain. Deep burning behind me and sharp pain in front under the ribs. I went through the usual medical path. Tests were run. Everything came back normal.
Later, after the episode passed, I noticed something new. A small discolored spot on my back. About the size of a dime. Crusty. It had not been there before. It was located exactly where the burning had been strongest.
No one ever connected it to anything. If medicine noticed it at all, it did not matter to them. But in hindsight, it mattered a great deal.
I now understand that episode as an early sign of altered circulation and bile handling. Changes in portal flow and pressure do not always present the way textbooks describe. Sometimes they reroute. Sometimes they express through the skin. Sometimes pain signaling is altered enough that a person remains upright and functional while physiology that should be incapacitating continues underneath.
That small mark on my back was easy to dismiss. But it was early. It was specific. And it was honest. And, it is still there [although it has moved a little, weird?]
It was a surface signal of a deeper process that medicine did not know how to read, but it makes perfect sense once you read the book.
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