Before They Believed Me: Surviving Childhood Pain, Misdiagnosis, and Medical Gaslighting

“I’ve been in constant severe pain for every second of every day for so long that I can’t remember what it feels like to not be in pain.” - David Bainbridge

In Episode 1 of Born into Pain, David Bainbridge’s story begins before age three—before doctors believed him, before the diagnoses, and before the world took his pain seriously.

This episode explores the raw truth of childhood chronic pain, early opioid prescriptions, and a broken medical system that left a child to suffer in silence.

Narrated by host Josh, this is a brutally honest dive into what it means to grow up in a body that never stops hurting—and a world that refuses to see it.

Read more at bornintopain.wordpress.com