Intermittent

Bria, 20

[aspenandvine]

New Orleans 1.

New Orleans, LA – December, 2015

[thedakini]

[williestilios]

[queentaco]

[jjsinterlude]

When you mad at bae

[mcdyke-deactivated20171112]

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?

[mcdyke-deactivated20171112]

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-deactivated20151224]

I call bullshit

[40yodater]

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

[cobra-23-deactivated20151224]

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.

[beesplosion]

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-deactivate]

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.

[fail-sage]

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.

[prettyblessedstonerprincess-dea]

I collapsed at work and was told I had appendicitis from stress with no tests done. Which I knew was not true. After the pain did not go away when they removed my healthy!!! Appendix in an unneeded appendectomy, (the surgeon admitted that my appendix was completely healthy and it was removed anyways) I was then told I had a ruptured cyst on my ovary after an exploratory surgery after the appendectomy and may never conceive a child due to scarring because they didn’t start antibiotics early enough. I almost got sepsis because the infection was throughout my entire body almost because It took them forever to find what was wrong because they refused to do any tests because they chalked it up to stress and stress related problems. Which I hardly ever stress, I went under the knife and spent days in the hospital for something that could of been solved by a round of antibiotics taken in the comfort of my own home. Now I have small scars from surgery and a fear of hospitals. And up until I got pregnant eight months ago, I had a legitimate fear I’d never be a mother. The craziest part is they had the nerve to try and justify in the paperwork an unneeded surgery they performed on me to remove my healthy appendix by writing down that I had appendicitis which I didn’t and it was confirmed by the overseeing Drs , nurses and the surgeon himself that performed the surgeries and removed my healthy Appendix that it was for no reason. Although it was an unneeded organ. To remove an organ whether needed or not is extremely painful. I didn’t eat for five days because of pain and because I was on morphine, oxys and vicodin every half hour in a hospital full of screaming patients. When I could of been on antibiotics and a small dose pain medication and resting at home. Drs do believe women just stress or overreact. And it costs us precious time and our health.

[pascal-blaise-blog]

Dead @ "you fucking moldy walnut" 😭

[yungtoothpic]

There is a video somewhere on the internet of stevie wonder dabbin. 

[pascal-blaise-blog]

I want to see it

[the-doobiest]

This week in social justice smackdowns.

[jazzyflynaps]

Oh my god lmfao

[suvshi]

[jynxy]

[deepbreathsanddeath]

This is a real panda!  China has this “panda diplomacy” and this one will be sent to Japan as an friendship envoy. For the safety reason he sits as a passenger with his feeder, not in a cage. Fastening the seat belt, wearing a diaper, eating bamboos

[pulloutyourfreakumdress]

Aya Jones | Prada F/W 2015.

[seanp0donnell]

[mixedgf]

i hate when adults make fun of u and ask if u bought ur jeans with all the holes in them…. why don’t u go fix the holes in our economy robert

[meanplastic]

[tessbegg]

[fuckyeahsanaalathan]

She is her mothers TWIN!

[securelyinsecure]

Such beautiful women

[malikthaelite]

😍😍😍

[laylamajandra]

I thought these were all photos of her in different lightning. Her mother is her twin

[pascal-blaise-blog]

Carbon copy

[heyfunniest]

How to grow a man beard.

[girldwarf]

he had to plan this over weeks, he had to spend time taking pics doing this for weeks

[couchnap]

wouldn’t he have just taken these pictures in reverse order?

[scorntrooper-deactivated2024041]

you can’t LIE on the INTERNET

[herelieslill-deactivated2022041]

you go to Liar’s Jail when you lie about something as important as a beard. he looks like a reasonable man

[dionyssos]