Nothing seen does not mean nothing is there. It happens every day: someone lives with real symptoms - abdominal pain, headaches, breathlessness, urinary burning, fatigue - and every test comes back normal. For doctors, these results are reassuring. They exclude serious illness - cancer, infection, organ failure. But for patients, this is often the most disorienting moment. The body continues to speak through pain, vomiting or breathlessness, yet the investigation has reached its limit. Side effects of medications have been explored and excluded. There is nowhere further to go. Or so it seems. When tests find nothing When nothing is found, a different kind of suffering can begin - a silent perplexity that is difficult to express, even to those closest to them. Some begin to wonder if they are being dismissed, or worse, disbelieved. Their symptoms are intensely physical, yet they may be told - or begin to believe themselves - that it is in the mind. But to live with burning without infec...