Phoebe understands the challenges the hospital faced diagnosing her, but said she turned to AI after finding the experience “really lonely”.
“I had to fight to be listened to,” she added.
“All my childhood I had a limp.
“I was born without a hip socket and had operations as a baby, so thought it was to do with that.”
She also struggled with her balance as a child and was tested for dyspraxia, external – a condition which affects physical co-ordination.
But she did not have this.
When Phoebe was 19, she collapsed and suffered a seizure at work.
But she says doctors told her it was anxiety, which was then added to her medical records.
“I had no history of anxiety, I was a really happy, bubbly person,” she said.
In 2022, Phoebe says, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, external and prescribed medication.
