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lesfemale

being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think you’re exaggerating and/or lying

leftiesneedrights

define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?

lesfemale

no :) it means going to 10 different doctors who disbelieved your symptoms until the 11th found cysts on your ovaries :) which may mean infertility :) sit on a cactus :)

cobra-23

I call bullshit

40yodater

Of course you do. Like the first 10 doctors. 😒

cobra-23

I call bullshit on the story. If you think you have an issue you should see a specialist not just your PCP.

40yodater

Like the 4 “specialists” I saw for the crippling numbness in my face and legs I had for over a year while they told me it was “stress”? When it was finally found that I had scars on my brain and spine? Those “specialists” we’re male neurologist who wouldn’t give me an MRI because “women stress too much”. Go fuck yourself.

medievaldendrophile

MY SPINE WAS BROKEN FOR 2 YEARS BECAUSE MY DOCTORS TOLD ME I JUST HAD BAD CRAMPS AND REFUSED TO TAKE XRAYS. FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. WHEN WILL BOYS REALIZE THEIR EXPERIENCES ARENT STANDARD???? I ALSO LOVE THIS IDEA THAT YOU CAN JUST GO TO A SPECIALIST WHENEVER YOU WANT LOL IF OUR PCP DOESNT BELIEVE US WHEN WE TELL THEM OUR SYMPTOMS THEY ARENT GONNA REFER US TO A SPECIALIST YOU FUCKING MOLDY WALNUT

proudly-pro-choice

My parents began noticing something large in my throat, saw a specialist….Guess what? Told me to lose some weight..even though I wasn’t overweight. I would have my period for weeks at a time. Was told that it was teenage hormones and stress.

Two fucking years later I attempted suicide they ran a battery of tests as required and bam! They find out that I have untreated Hashimoto’s. The “thing” was a goiter. Possible symptoms of an untreated thyroid disease is the goiter, unexplained weight gain, and depression. All they had to do was test my blood, but they said young people don’t have thyroid problems. 😒

-Allie

tikkunolamorgtfo

Ten years ago, my mother—who is a pretty tough cookie—started feeling both ridiculously wired, anxious, and incredibly emotional. Every doctor she saw told her she was going through early menopause, even though she was still menstruating. Her health declined to point where she was barely sleeping, losing weight, and crying constantly, which was a huge red flag because my mother never cries. Finally, she went to see another doctor 2.5 hours away who referred her to an endocrinologist. And what did the endocrinologist say? He diagnosed her with one of the most advanced cases of Grave’s Disease he had even seen, and said if she had gone just a few more months without being treated, she could have FUCKING DIED.

Also, it turned out that her thyroid levels had been moving out of the normal range in a progressive pattern for years, but nobody bothered to look at her past test results until after the diagnosis. They would just do a test, see that it was “in the normal range” and leave it at that. She could have caught it before she even had symptoms, instead of basically being accused of having hysteria.

celestial-cat-prince

i had a brain aneurysm/hemorrhage ten years ago, doctors still tell me im faking my disability
BECAUSE YOU CAN TOTALLY FAKE LIMITED MOVEMENT OF THE LEFT SIDE

symphonicsadness

My sister had intercranial hypertension which was causing headaches, dizzy spells and loss of vision, and you know what the hospital told her? She was being a hysterical girl and making it up.
A few weeks later she spent roughly a month in hospital and had several lumbar punctures to relieve her RECORD HIGH spinal pressure that was causing so much strain on her brain and optic nerves she was being sent blind.

timetotimeskip

Everytime I see this post (and it’s been a good 5/6 times), it has different stories and experiences of women who have been horribly mistreated by doctors and it just blows my mind that this is so big. It’s absolutely disgusting how terribly women are treated in the medical world and something needs to be done about that.

kirawords

my friend lea had back pain, then pain in her legs and feet, and then numbness. despite seeing 7 different doctors over 2 years, by the time they found the cancer it was inoperable. chemo and radiation didn’t work. the cancer spread. she died and left behind a 5 year old daughter.

kaijuno

A few years ago I would go through spells where I literally could not stand on my own and I couldn’t get out of bed. I would be freezing and too weak to eat. I would keep having heart palpitations as well. I got up the money to go to a clinic and they told me it was just stress and to basically just work on chilling out. I saved up money for a few weeks to do this and I pretty much get a “chill out” from them.

As time went on it got worse, most noticeably the heart palpitations were happening almost constantly. I went again to a different clinic and was told it was normal and that it was probably stress. They did no tests, and they told me it would “just go away”.

Two weeks later I ended up collapsing going down some stairs, and at the hospital it was discovered that I had such severe anemia that my heart could barely keep up with trying to get enough oxygen to my body. I had developed left ventricular hypertrophy (my heart muscle is too big) and because of them ignoring me and dismissing me I’m at a much higher risk of heart attacks and stroke now.

spacebabenumber-25

I went to the doctor with severe intermittent pain in my upper right stomach area that was so bad I had to miss school. Despite the fact that my period has been on a regular 3 month cycle for years, and I still had two months left until my period, my doctor told me it was period related cramps and or indigestion. 2 months later I’m in the hospital getting my gallbladder removed. It was so obstructed that there was gangrene developing my my system.

words-writ-in-starlight

So…everyone who’s given me shit for that one post (about medicine and equal treatment and shit) can just read this because I’m sick of defending my case.

hypergoomba

i know this post is already long but here’s a pretty good article about how gender bias in medicine is quite literally killing women. it focuses a lot on heart attacks but it applies to all areas of medicine

glasmond

A) When I was 20 I went to my doctor and told her that I feel terrible and tired and without motivation all the time and I don’t know what to do. She said that I “have to use better excuses in order for her to write me an attest for school”. I didn’t even asked for that (and weren’t in school anymore). A year later I had to go to the psychiatric ward.

B) I had terrible belly aches for 10 years and very irregular stool. After I fought my mother who said “it’s just stress because you do so much wrong” all doctors I visited said the same. Not until I was 25, then I finally found out I was FUCKING LACTOSE AND GLUTEN INTOLERANT. Not even one doctor even considered it. I found it out by researching and diagnosing myself, then avoiding affected products. Everything went better immediately. Heck, even my depressions got better.

C) There where strange bumps on my leg and they started to hurt constantly. Went to 6 doctors. Told me I’m just fat, didn’t even check on me properly. Now I know it’s a (FUCKING HUGE) tumor and that I have a sickness called lipedema.

It took me full 25 years to trust my pains and not let others tell me that I’m just overexaggerating.

cameoamalthea

I noticed whenever I ate certain high fat foods I’d get sick, fried food, movie theater popcorn with the butter topping, really good tonkatsu ramen with the pork belly fat - I’d eat it and then get really sick. No problem with dairy. I could eat ice cream, drink whole milk, I could drink straight cream from a shot glass and be fine…And most google searches on fat just brings up diet advice on ‘good fat’ vs ‘bad fat’ not why I’m having issues with fat from meat and fate butter.

I asked my doctor and she said “Well, you know, you don’t need to eat meat. A vegetarian diet is much healthier.”

That wasn’t what I asked. I wanted to know what’s going on and why certain foods make me sick. I want to understand, and know what options I have because I want to eat popcorn or a hamburger sometimes (And I do anyway, sometimes, it’s like this will make me very uncomfortable later but right now that looks delicious).

I’m not overweight and I don’t have any health issues where I need to be on a low meat diet for health (and I don’t want an all meat diet. I was vegetarian for a year in college, I like vegetables, but it was hard for me to be vegetarian on my budget with my time constraints and also I really need iron in my diet). It bothered me that my doctor wasn’t even interested in hearing about my problem or giving me any information.

The best I can guess is I have some gall bladder issue and can’t handle certain fats but can handle dairy for some reason? But I shouldn’t be having to guess. I want information, a name for what’s going on, maybe a way to connect to others with similar issues for support/advice on managing red meat cravings.

I don’t want to be told ‘well your problem isn’t really a problem’

an-actual-overlord

Contributing to this.

My mom began experiencing bad short-term memory loss in her late forties. She was taken to the hospital after we realized she was not well. She would hallucinate things, forget things that had just transpired, and would complain of bad headaches.

The doctors told her that she was just hallucinating because she was “dehydrated from a UTI”. From my understanding, they did not properly test for a UTI, be declared she had one anyways. It was supposed to be a “relatively simple fix”.

By the time we realized it was not a simple fix and had taken her to another doctor, she had stage four glioblastoma multiforme– brain cancer. She passed away around 3 months later. Would she have been okay if they had caught it earlier? I don’t really know. But sometimes, I wonder if my mom would still be here if some bullshit doctor hadn’t just waved her illness aside.

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