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Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
Geoff Coffey@Ashedryden “You know how sometimes you have bad gas and it can make your tummy hurt a little bit?” — The ER doc about 12 hours before my wife's emergency appendectomy and 5 day hospital stay from abscess.
D. G. MarshallMy Mum had a cousin who was constantly told the pain in her stomach was just nerves, just take another valium.
When a doctor finally ran some tests, oh, it's stomach cancer, we'll have to remove most of your stomach, what a pity we didn't find this earlier, we might have been able to save most of your stomach.
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Medea Vanamonde 🏳️⚧️@Ashedryden @gwynnion @skinnylatte
Did they at least give her a few benzos?
Deb Nam-Krane@Ashedryden My doctor told me my inexplicable aches and pains were most likely depression. Nope, cancer.
@dnkboston yikesssss
@Ashedryden I'm so not unique.
Darryl CousinsMy doctor told me my persistent chest pain was most likely heartburn. Nope, pulmonary embolism.
@cousinsd Oh my god. That's more immediately life threatening. That doctor should have apologized. @Ashedryden
No, no apology, I didn't ask for one. I went back to the same medical centre several days later and requested a different doctor, I was sent straight to hospital. I still attend that medical centre and always refuse appointments with said doctor.
@cousinsd I hope that doctor at least knows how badly they screwed up @Ashedryden
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RuthS@Ashedryden And how nothing has changed (enough) since the early '50s when my mother got the same nonsense with acute rheumatic fever/CHF.
Julia@Ashedryden @skinnylatte Yep, my endometriosis was dismissed as stress for 20 years.
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14 Hours Productions@Ashedryden Heck that sometimes even happens to men. (not as often, though.)
WearyBonnie@Ashedryden
I feel like we should start a hashtag for it, like:
#ItWasntAnxiety and then you add what it ended up being for you.
For me, #ItWasntAnxiety it was POTS and May-Thurner Syndrome.
I feel like we should start a hashtag for it, like:
#ItWasntAnxiety and then you add what it ended up being for you.
For me, #ItWasntAnxiety it was POTS and May-Thurner Syndrome.
That’s a moray@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden #ItWasn'tAnxiety it was rheumatoid arthritis, #ItWasn'tAnxiety it was Hashimoto's Thyroidism, #ItWasn'tAnxiety it was basal cell carcinoma (prolly just a single small spot of anxiety-induced psoriasis...that doesn't itch...or hurt...because prolly the anxiety is preventing you from feeling it...oh but that other pain? That pain is all in your head, eat less western food)
Biggles 20X6!@Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden for mum it wasn't anxiety or stress from becoming a widow, it was pancreatic cancer, stage 4 before it was discovered, but would have stage 2 and likely curable if they'd listened seriously.
Will never not be bitter about that.
Will never not be bitter about that.
Lizette or Lizzie@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden Well I did in the end because a few people eventually had the sense to order tests. But.
Oh, I just remembered the one where an ectopic pregnancy was homesickness and it took 2+ months to get a pregnancy test. Fun times. Amazing how brains bury that stuff.
secretsloth@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden I don't think all of mine would fit in a single toot... and they still haven't tested me for EDS yet... if it's not EDS, then my bleeding issue remains unexplained as well, but it's apparently vascular and not blood related. 🤷♀️ yay! #ItWasntAnxiety it was a whole damn list of things, #ItStillIsntAnxiety that is causing all these other problems, either. And solidarity with all of you that have endured this hell.
Mania Emma@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden #ItWasntAnxiety it was Ehlers-Danlos Syndrom: genetic + epigenetic
Epigenetic is cause by deep root complex post traumatic symptoms, not just anxiety.
Epigenetic is cause by deep root complex post traumatic symptoms, not just anxiety.
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Irene Zhang@Ashedryden @skinnylatte lmao, I broke both bones in my lower leg and required a rod and 12 screws in my ankle and they kept telling me that I probably just sprained my ankle.
Femme Malheureuse@irene Ugh. I hope someone checked your bone mineral density and vitamin D levels.
@femme_mal lol I live in Seattle so my vitamin D is bad. My bone density is quite good due to the skating
Quaap@Ashedryden I've witnessed this several times firsthand with my ex-wife. At one point during her university years she called to say she had passed out at school and I needed to come get her. Brought her to the ER. She's the talkative type and mentioned to the doctor that she has anxiety issues. And that's all it took: woman + anxiety. He blamed it on the anxiety disorder, and he was outta there. The amazing (woman) nurse then told us (in a plausibly-deniable offhand way) that, based on my ex-wife's description of abdominal pain immediately preceding it, it could also be a vasovagal nerve reaction due to intestinal problems which would have nothing to do with anxiety.
DThoris@Ashedryden
So... I was having chest pains that probably were anxiety. BUT the anxiety was related to low vitamin D. As soon a my vitamin D levels went up, my anxiety and chest pains went away. My regular doc said "just anxiety." The cardiologist included a vitamin D screen with the other tests. I plan to have words with my PCP.
So... I was having chest pains that probably were anxiety. BUT the anxiety was related to low vitamin D. As soon a my vitamin D levels went up, my anxiety and chest pains went away. My regular doc said "just anxiety." The cardiologist included a vitamin D screen with the other tests. I plan to have words with my PCP.
Jen@DejahEntendu @Ashedryden I'm not convinced there's any such thing as "just" anxiety.
It always comes from somewhere.
It always comes from somewhere.
@Ashedryden OMG I literally got giardia and it took my doctor months -- three lifecycles for the lil wigglers and associated horrible pain for me -- before he stopped telling me I was imagining it and asked if I did any hiking or anything
at the time I had a full-time job working outdoors
which was in my records but the doctor apparently couldn't get his head around the idea of a woman going outside
much easier to believe I'm crazy!
antibiotics cleared it up in LESS THAN 12 HOURS
JackMexThat sounds like a terrible doctor! Didn’t they order some tests?
@JackMexa4 @Ashedryden of course they didn't
one, I'm a woman, medical people treat us like shit and assume we're lying crazy bitches most of the time
no, really, most of the time
two, while you CAN test for giardia, the antibiotics work so much faster than the test results come back that unless you've decided your patient is an unreliable mendacious idiot, you just give them the antibiotics if they've been around open water
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Morten@sarae @Ashedryden You can get giardia from a swimming pool so you don't even have to be outdoorsy. It's a parasite though so it's treated with anti-parasitic medicine, not antibiotics.
Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor@Ashedryden Typical. Eff that asshole ... I hope the patient recovers.
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@Ashedryden Unfortunately, anxiety is the typical diagnosis by doctors who have no idea about the possible causes of illness. Understandable, but not justifiably. They should simply admit their impotence, instead.
@gisgeek @Ashedryden Unfortunately, male doctors are as misogynists as most men and just don't care about women's health. #patriarchy
Vive Levant@Emmaf_77 @gisgeek @Ashedryden we hear reports of similar misdiagnosis by female doctors as well, unfortunately.
@Vive_Levant @Emmaf_77 @Ashedryden
Yes, in my experience, it is not a genre issue but an attitude toward giving explanations to patients, right or wrong, in any case, with or without a founded diagnosis. It seems an admission of limited/inadequate skills/information is a social stigma for medical professionals. A simple 'I have no idea, sorry' is not admitted.
Yes, in my experience, it is not a genre issue but an attitude toward giving explanations to patients, right or wrong, in any case, with or without a founded diagnosis. It seems an admission of limited/inadequate skills/information is a social stigma for medical professionals. A simple 'I have no idea, sorry' is not admitted.
@Vive_Levant @Emmaf_77 @Ashedryden
Just a well-known example: fibromyalgia is one of the typical misdiagnosed syndromes, but it is not the only one. There are many illnesses out there that are very difficult to diagnose, and often the average doctor labels such illnesses as anxiety.
Just a well-known example: fibromyalgia is one of the typical misdiagnosed syndromes, but it is not the only one. There are many illnesses out there that are very difficult to diagnose, and often the average doctor labels such illnesses as anxiety.