The Desperate For a Diagnosis Podcast With Laura Nozicka

17/09/2025

Thursday is the day! I’m excited!!

05/08/2025

What an honor to be invited by Z. Colette Edwards, MD MBA to contribute an article to the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly.

It explores a troubling truth: many patients leave hospitals and doctors’ offices feeling ignored. Women and marginalized groups are often told their pain is “just stress,” only to later discover serious conditions like POTS or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. We are in a trust recession in healthcare and the guests from my Desperate for a Diagnosis podcast tell their stories in detail.

Writing this article inspired my upcoming talk, “Unheard and Unhealed,” happening in September at the conference.

Article link in comments.

29/07/2025

20/07/2025

Too important to ignore.

20/07/2025

Ladies listen up not only for yourselves but the old women in your life.

18/07/2025

The comments in the video are stunning. Misdiagnoses and gaslighting.

This is infuriating!!!

18/07/2025

This is infuriating!!!

10/07/2025

🎧 New Desperate for a Diagnosis Podcast Episode!

In this powerful episode, I sit down with NYC writer, producer and author Nika C. Beamon, who spent more than 20 years navigating the healthcare system before finally being diagnosed with IgG4-related disease, a rare autoimmune condition.

Despite years of symptoms such as fevers, fatigue, joint pain, TIAs, swollen lymph nodes and over 20 doctors, Nika was repeatedly misdiagnosed or only treated symptom-by-symptom until she found that one physician who changed everything for her with a simple blood test.

Her story is one of resilience, frustration, and radical self-advocacy.
- 26 doctors.
- 36 procedures.
- 2 mini-strokes.
- Countless moments of being dismissed, overlooked, and misdiagnosed.

Her story explores the physical, emotional, and systemic toll of living with an undiagnosed condition.

You can listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart Radio and most other pod apps. You can also view the episode on YouTube. Link in comments.

29/05/2025

🎙️ New Desperate for a Diagnosis Podcast Episode:
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy: What Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You (But Should Have)

May is Pelvic Health Awareness Month and on my latest podcast episode, I sit down with pelvic floor physical therapist Alina Gur to debunk the myths and misunderstandings surrounding pelvic floor therapy.

We talk about:
✅ Why so many women with pelvic pain are dismissed or misdiagnosed for up to six years
✅ How pelvic floor dysfunction affects more than just postpartum women
✅ The real signs you might need pelvic floor PT (even if your doctor hasn’t mentioned it)
✅ What therapy actually involves from breathing techniques to trauma-informed care
✅ Why access is still a huge barrier for patients

If you’ve ever been told “everything looks fine” while still feeling like something is wrong, this episode is for you.

Link in comments or you can find the episode wherever you listen to your podcast.

25/05/2025

A desperate for a diagnosis moment for a child is heartbreaking for a parent. Bottom line do not use metal brushes to clean a BBQ grill.

18/05/2025

Gender bias couldn’t be truer. Healthcare still looks at women’s issues as hysteria, anxiety or hormonal. Total BS.

158 likes, 25 comments. “It took me 5 YEARS to get diagnosed and it took my HUSBABD only 5 hours to be diagnosed”