Mystery Diagnosis

Every year, millions of Americans fall prey to real-life medical mysteries - ailments that go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years. Their lives are thrown into turmoil - sometimes their sanity is called into question - as medical professionals struggle to understand their baffling conditions.

Every year, millions of Americans fall prey to real-life medical mysteries - ailments that go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years. Their lives are thrown into turmoil - sometimes their sanity is called into question - as medical professionals struggle to understand their baffling conditions.

Every year, millions of Americans fall prey to real-life medical mysteries - ailments that go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years. Their lives are thrown into turmoil - sometimes their sanity is called into question - as medical professionals struggle to understand their baffling conditions.

Ever since she was three years old, Tiffany House has been suffering from a strange set of symptoms. She has incessant colds, bad coordination, trouble keeping her balance, difficulty moving, and trouble with swallowing due to a rare genetic neuromuscular disease called Pompe Disease.

Ever since she was born, young Claire Mantey has had a strange birthmark and swelling on the left side of her face. It didn't seem so serious at first, but the swelling and discoloration persist. Claire gets many ear infections, pain in the left side of her face, and eventually, fibrous displasia that spreads from her left jawbone to some of her other bones.

Ever since she was three years old, Tiffany House has been suffering from a strange set of symptoms. She has incessant colds, bad coordination, trouble keeping her balance, difficulty moving, and trouble with swallowing due to a rare genetic neuromuscular disease called Pompe Disease.

After twenty-seven-year-old Amanda Nixon has breast reduction surgery, she develops a strange set of symptoms. She has spasms of pain in her right arm; a painful, hardened mass on her right breast; dimples on her right breast; and a purple discoloration of her right breast from one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer (IBC).

Todd and Julie are living the dream in Portland, OR with great jobs and two vibrant kids. One day their youngest, two-year-old Brooke, complains her right hip is hurting. They think she's just bumped it and wait for the pain to go away. But it doesn't...

Kristin Gunther begins to suffer from great anxiety, confusion, and seizure-like movements. At first, doctors believe she simply has a viral form of meningitis, but after Kristin returns home, she becomes extremely anxious and delusional. Also, she loses her ability to breathe on her own, and her heart rate becomes dangerously low.

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