Carrie Ann Inaba, the longtime judge on Dancing with the Stars, has spent the past several months speaking publicly about a disease she managed largely in silence for over a decade. She was first diagnosed with Sjögren disease in 2013 — but her symptoms began decades earlier, and multiple physicians dismissed or missed them before a rheumatologist ordered the right blood tests and a specialized dry-eye examination.
Her experience is not unusual. It is the norm.
