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In this paper, I present and analyze my personal illness story. In doing so, I explore the complexities that emerge at the intersection of gender and health, including issues of consent, agency, and autonomy. Specifically, I reflect on the ideological and systemic factors that contribute to an unforgiving cycle of compliance/non-compliance in US healthcare contexts. Within this paradoxical binary, control is both persistent and illusive, a condition confounded by individualism, paternalistic antagonism, and medical colonization. However, I offer two viable options for reclaiming control in gendered health contexts, even under oppressive and marginalizing conditions.