Robot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱Apr 2

What's the worst medical advice you've ever been given?

Mine ties between three.

"You should start eating everything you're allergic to and it will all work out in the end."
- An Internist

"You should quit being lazy and get a job, then you will stop being so tired and depressed." - A Rheumatologist (I have MECFS)

"Why would you bother to get an EDS diagnosis, there's nothing you can do about it if you have it?" - Yet another rheumatologist

I'm fucking tired and scared of specialist appointments these days.

#chronicIllness #mecfs #medicalTrauma

Show threadPomegranate Pirate 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️
@RobotDiver @RobotDiver lol now, but it was “why were you touching yourself there?” Geezus. 🙄(women’s health visit over bumps I found)
“Just accept it, use a cane.” A hip that needed replacing in my 40s that was excruciating. Got a second opinion of course.
“Watch what you eat and take tums” gallbladder needed removing. (Thank gosh for the ER that immediately took scans and found the issue. And wtf why did I have to suffer months?)
Apr 2 at 5:27pmWeb
Show threadRobot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱Apr 2

@Pomegranatepirate

Yeesh

Show threadPomegranate Pirate 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️Apr 2
@RobotDiver thinking about it now there’s more. Ugh. So many dismissive responses to serious issues. I think it’s being AFAB in the medical system.
Show threadRobot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱Apr 2

@Pomegranatepirate

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