Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@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.
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@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
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@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.
My 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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Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@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. -
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@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
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@Ashedryden @skinnylatte Yep, my endometriosis was dismissed as stress for 20 years.
@catnip @Ashedryden @skinnylatte my endometriosis was because I was frigid!
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@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.@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. -
My 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.
@davidtheeviloverlord
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Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@Ashedryden Typical. Eff that asshole ... I hope the patient recovers.
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@Bumblefish
@Ashedryden
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@Taco_lad
Fuck, I'm so sorry. That's terrible
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@Taco_lad @Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden my god how devastating
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@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.
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@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
That sounds like a terrible doctor! Didn’t they order some tests?
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@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.@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden For me, starting when I was four, it was not anxiety, or my imagination, or a ploy for sympathy. It was congenital spinal fusions in my cervical spine, that caused chronic pain, headaches, vomiting etc. it was finally discovered when I was 33. #ItWasntAnxiety
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@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden For me, starting when I was four, it was not anxiety, or my imagination, or a ploy for sympathy. It was congenital spinal fusions in my cervical spine, that caused chronic pain, headaches, vomiting etc. it was finally discovered when I was 33. #ItWasntAnxiety
@Beachbum
Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry you weren't taken seriously
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@Beachbum
Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry you weren't taken seriously
@Ashedryden@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden TY it was a huge relief when it was finally diagnosed.
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@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.@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden I’m so sorry. I know a little about POTS, but I’m going to look up the other condition so I’m more informed.
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That 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
