Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”

[pamelabarroway@mstdn.social]

@Ashedryden Typical. Eff that asshole ... I hope the patient recovers.

[3tomatoesshort@disabled.social]

@Bumblefish
@Ashedryden
That's awful, I'm sorry you didn't get proper healthcare

[3tomatoesshort@disabled.social]

@Taco_lad
Fuck, I'm so sorry. That's terrible

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@Taco_lad @Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden my god how devastating

[bnlandor@mastodon.social]

@Ashedryden https://youtu.be/T4RFqqqa7XM?is=8mtMeKoXBFeibMPr

[gisgeek@floss.social]

@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.

[jackmexa4@mastodon.social]

@sarae @Ashedryden

That sounds like a terrible doctor! Didn’t they order some tests?

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@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

[3tomatoesshort@disabled.social]

@Beachbum
Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry you weren't taken seriously
@Ashedryden

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden TY it was a huge relief when it was finally diagnosed.

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@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.

[sarae@ecoevo.social]

@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

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden Oh my gosh. That’s awful. I had never heard of it before. Everyone of the treatment sounds very complicated.

[3tomatoesshort@disabled.social]

@Beachbum
@Ashedryden
It's actually quite good news for me! Between MSALD (fatty liver) and May-Thurner, that may explain WHY I have POTS, so I'm hoping that if I can get the MTS treated, I may be able to exercise enough to improve my liver, and also have improvement in my POTS
It's likely that a lot of POTS patients have MTS (or something similar) without knowing about it.

[psychoticscroodlebum@mastodon.social]

@Ashedryden SO sick of doctors dismissing things as "anxiety".

[emmaf_77@piaille.fr]

@gisgeek @Ashedryden Unfortunately, male doctors are as misogynists as most men and just don't care about women's health. #patriarchy

[emmaf_77@piaille.fr]

@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden #ItWasntAnxiety it was Ehlers-Danlos Syndrom: genetic + epigenetic
Epigenetic is cause by deep root complex post traumatic symptoms, not just anxiety.

[stixin@mastodon.social]

@Ashedryden she probably had both. Virus was in incubation period.

Please try to keep the american gender war away feom us. Thank you

[cousinsd@mastodon.nz]

@dnkboston @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.

[crowbriarhexe@tech.lgbt]

@sarae @Ashedryden 🫂