RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693

Every woman is reading this right now going โ€œsounds about right.โ€

@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

@sarae @Ashedryden

That sounds like a terrible doctor! Didnโ€™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