Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
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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
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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 Oh my gosh. That’s awful. I had never heard of it before. Everyone of the treatment sounds very complicated.
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@3TomatoesShort @Ashedryden Oh my gosh. That’s awful. I had never heard of it before. Everyone of the treatment sounds very complicated.
@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
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@Ashedryden SO sick of doctors dismissing things as "anxiety".
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@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.
@gisgeek @Ashedryden Unfortunately, male doctors are as misogynists as most men and just don't care about women's health. #patriarchy
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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 #ItWasntAnxiety it was Ehlers-Danlos Syndrom: genetic + epigenetic
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116558145727389693
Every woman is reading this right now going “sounds about right.”
@Ashedryden she probably had both. Virus was in incubation period.
Please try to keep the american gender war away feom us. Thank you
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@cousinsd Oh my god. That's more immediately life threatening. That doctor should have apologized. @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.
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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
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