Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼♀️🐈🐈⬛RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
Sara@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
The Witch of Crow Briar
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.