These are all excellent responses to these questions. Unfortunately , most of us are not schooled in how to discuss or analyze our own symptoms.
We are then subject to a doctor's personal experience.
We are also not schooled in the best way to exercise and eat. Americans get 24 hr. bad advertising.
But, illness is good in the sense that it starts a learning process . We wake up . This is a good forum for that process to start. I only wish the doctors had time to be more widely informed of something other than "Generic" care.