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Renan Duarte

“It Felt Like An Axe”: Doctors Dismissed Her Pain For Years Until Scans Revealed Rare Disorder

Thirty-two-year-old Charlotte Chapman-Hart experienced ear-splitting headaches from the age of thirteen, leading to multiple incorrect dietary disorder-related diagnoses. 

It would take eight years before doctors discovered that she had cysts on her backbone and her brain was pressing down on her spinal column.

Despite the pain, she continued dancing ballet during this period and graduated from university with a health and human sciences degree.

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