Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
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@Ashedryden @gwynnion @skinnylatte
Did they at least give her a few benzos?
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Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@Ashedryden My doctor told me my inexplicable aches and pains were most likely depression. Nope, cancer.
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@Ashedryden My doctor told me my inexplicable aches and pains were most likely depression. Nope, cancer.
@dnkboston yikesssss
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@dnkboston yikesssss
@Ashedryden I'm so not unique.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
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@Ashedryden yup. I had a ruptured appendix for almost a year.
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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 And how nothing has changed (enough) since the early '50s when my mother got the same nonsense with acute rheumatic fever/CHF.
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@Ashedryden @skinnylatte Yep, my endometriosis was dismissed as stress for 20 years.
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@Ashedryden @skinnylatte Yep, my endometriosis was dismissed as stress for 20 years.
@catnip
Mine too. Then cancer for several years.
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@Ashedryden Heck that sometimes even happens to men. (not as often, though.)
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Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@Ashedryden
I feel like we should start a hashtag for it, like:
#ItWasntAnxiety and then you add what it ended up being for you.
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@dnkboston yikesssss
My doctor told me my persistent chest pain was most likely heartburn. Nope, pulmonary embolism.
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My 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
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@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.
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@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.
@irene Ugh. I hope someone checked your bone mineral density and vitamin D levels.
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@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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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
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@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.
