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Podcast: It Happened To Me: A Rare Disease and Medical Challenges Podcast
Episode: #76 When Pain Never Stops: A Survivor’s Story of Chronic Pain and Hope
Description: In this deeply moving episode we explore the reality of chronic pain, the kind that reshapes identity, erodes independence, and too often leaves patients feeling invisible within the healthcare system.
Joining us is Meredith Mangold, an inflammatory bowel disease and chronic pain patient advocate whose medical journey began in college and evolved into years of relentless, life-altering pain. Meredith lives with ulcerative colitis, chronic abdominal and pelvic pain, and a constellation of overlapping medical conditions that left her bedbound for years and searching desperately for answers.
As a college student, Meredith landed in the ICU...