Doctors failed to spot my hidden condition for so long I was left permanently disabled
Actor Daneka Etchells is performing in a show which reflects her experiences of "medical gaslighting".
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"What I'd experienced over the last 17 years was 'medical gaslighting.'"
— Daneka Etchells , Celebrity
"I felt so under the weather, so fatigued and in so much pain."
— Daneka Etchells , Celebrity
"It grew so vast and so wide and for so long, on nerves and ligaments that are attached to my legs."
— Daneka Etchells , Celebrity
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Actor Daneka Etchells is performing in a show which reflects her experiences of "medical gaslighting".
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