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
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. 😒
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 “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.
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 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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m sorry but if I tell you I’m getting violently sick from what you prescribed you better change it not tell me to Try Taking It Again!!!
(I have soo many stories… I’m an NB but I was female at birth so that’s all the doctors see.)
Horror storys are all we have as women.
I thought I had classical (life-threatening) CAH until I called my doctor requesting my exact diagnosis and mutations at age 21. Now I’m going through a temporary (hopefully, fingers crossed) period of mini-Addison’s disease while my adrenal glands regain proper function after the many years in my childhood and adolescence of being on heart-damaging corticosteroids that someone with nonclassical CAH shouldn’t even be using for that long a time. NCAH isn’t inherently life threatening on its own but Addison’s is, and explains why I’ve had severe issues mimicking my childhood declines into hypovolemic shock when I wasn’t able to take the corticosteroids. I should be fine now that I’m six months off of all cortisol replacement therapies, but it shouldn’t have happened in the first place had they read the fucking blood tests on my shock hospitalizations properly to see that they weren’t caused by my adrenal glands.
By the way, go see female doctors exclusively if you can. Sure, there are some terrible female doctors and a few great male ones, but female doctors have statistically much better outcomes and are far better listeners. This is specially true for OB/Gyns.
It took me 6 years to get a proper diagnosis of my ADHD. Doctors dont listen to women, men dont listen to women. Anyone who doesnt believe us is just a reflection of this.
Fuck. Anyone. Who. Says. This. Doesn’t. Happen.
Fucking idiot men damn. All these stories and they’ll still find a way to doubt us. “This is just the anomaly” eat dirt fucker.
Took 2+ years to get the dx for arthritis in my lower back. I was filing for disability and in a really low place when my orthopedic surgeon did ONE SIMPLE TEST IN THE OFFICE, and said he could fix me. 3 years on, and I’m feeling amazing.
Learning how to fight for yourself is the hardest thing in the medical field.
Why is time such a bitch?
Like when you get a bit too early to one of your classes and you just wait near your classroom and go “ok it’s 15 min till class start and I’m like less than 5 min away from the classroom I can wait 5 more min to get over there but then somehow time just fast forward or something and you end up late for like a min……
got the worlds coolest knife at a flea market today
op what quest did you complete?
going with my dad n uncle on their hunts for funko pops
Item: Plump Dagger of Scräggbert, a small but unusually thick and wide dagger that delivers fearful Piercing wounds, and can be used to summon a burst of pink lightning that grants +d6 on Intimidation checks. Such daggers could only be obtained when given out by the royal court as a reward for knights of the blood successfully escorting noblemen on their quest for strange mouthless figurines and idols for their ever-growing collection, dispensed in memory of the elderly Dwarf berserker that used to be the king’s bodyguard on his quests, and possessing a Plump Dagger when not a member of the Order of Scräggbert is a capital crime.
i’ve seen this picture a lot lately, and usually with really negative remarks, so i wanted to clarify some things.
this is a picture from a charity fundraiser for a children’s hospital that furries had raised $3,000 dollars for.. and in 2013 numerous furry conventions raised $189,820 for charities like Therapy Pets, NARF (a native american rights fund), and many wildlife preserve funds and shelters.
so yeah this person is dressed in an anthropomorphic suit and they’re being pet by a little kid, but there’s nothing inherent sexually about this (which is what im assuming most people have concerns about). cosplayers know that people and kids approach you for pictures all the time, and honestly this isn’t that different. this is just a kid who thought they were seeing a giant stuffed animal walking around and probably got excited. chill out you guys its not like the furry is getting ready to whip out a massive animal dong and slap people with it.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING. FURRIES ARE THE BEST PEOPLE EVER AND GET NO CREDIT FOR IT OMG
A bunch of people in animal costumes raised all that money to help care for big cats raised in captivity, many of whom had been abandoned, abused and illegally bred. Thanks to the furries those animals can continue to live peacefully with medical care, food and companionship for the rest of their natural lives.
I just felt it was an interesting piece of recent news to share on the subject 🙂
Furries are a-ok in my book. Always have been. Sure there are some psychos and creeps but if I judged every fandom by the psychos I’ve met in them I’d hate EVERYTHING. Generally speaking all the furries I’ve ever encountered at cons or in the real world in general have been moderate, fun and HUGELY kind.
So, yeah. don’t be so quick to paint all furries with the same brush.
The biggest furry convention (anthrocon) raised $30,000 for the national aviary last year. Charity seems to be something furries are good at. But of course we don’t hear about that because People In Costumes Weird
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