being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think youâre exaggerating and/or lying
define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?
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 :)
I call bullshit
Of course you do. Like the first 10 doctors. đ
I call bullshit on the story. If you think you have an issue you should see a specialist not just your PCP.
Like the 4 âspecialistsâ I saw for the crippling numbness in my face and legs I had for over a year while they told me it was âstressâ? When it was finally found that I had scars on my brain and spine? Those âspecialistsâ weâre male neurologist who wouldnât give me an MRI because âwomen stress too muchâ. Go fuck yourself.
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
My parents began noticing something large in my throat, saw a specialistâŚ.Guess what? Told me to lose some weight..even though I wasnât 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 Hashimotoâs. The âthingâ 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 donât have thyroid problems. đ
-Allie
Ten years ago, my motherâwho is a pretty tough cookieâstarted 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 Graveâs Disease he had even seen, and said if she had gone just a few more months without being treated, she could have FUCKING DIED.Â
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 âin the normal rangeâ and leave it at that. She could have caught it before she even had symptoms, instead of basically being accused of having hysteria.Â
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
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.
Everytime I see this post (and itâs 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. Itâs absolutely disgusting how terribly women are treated in the medical world and something needs to be done about that.
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 didnât work. the cancer spread. she died and left behind a 5 year old daughter.
A few years ago I would go through spells where I literally could not stand on my own and I couldnât 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 âchill outâ 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 âjust go awayâ. 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 Iâm at a much higher risk of heart attacks and stroke now.
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 Iâm in the hospital getting my gallbladder removed. It was so obstructed that there was gangrene developing my my system.
SoâŚeveryone whoâs given me shit for that one post (about medicine and equal treatment and shit) can just read this because Iâm sick of defending my case.
i know this post is already long but hereâs 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
My sister in law had back pain for years that she mostly managed, saying she had a "bad back" from horseback riding. About 5 months into her pregnancy with my nephew, the "bad back" turned into crippling, shooting pain that wouldn't let her sleep or lie down (she ended up sleeping sitting up for 4+ months) and couldn't walk or sit for long periods of time. Her OB didn't believe it was that bad, was normal for pregnancy and refused to sign short term disability paperwork for her. Thankfully her regular doctor signed and she didn't have to work through the rest of her pregnancy. After she had my nephew, the back pain continued. A full YEAR after he was born her doctor finally did an MRI (they'd mentioned it but couldn't pay for it (we're in the US obviously) so it wasn't really an option) and she had a 10-in long tumor in her spine. It was removed and she is fine now but like, come on, how infuriating.
