Scared. I have to commute and do 3 long meetings today, the sitting will not be good for my inflamed areas. And then tomorrow I have no choice but to initiate medical intervention. Have had multiple bad experiences and misdiagnoses and been gaslit by doctors in the past, so I am not confident this is going fix anything. Everything I've tried so far has failed or made things worse, but I have to start this process somehow, even if it means multiple appointments to try to get to the right specialist or at least rule out scarier possibilities. I also fear the exact same response as I got when I asked for help 2 weeks ago - a door (in the form of an automated text) being shut in my face.