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[Fallen London]

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[Krazy Kat]

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[The Lost Tomb]

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[Transcript: I swear the hell, none of you people think writing is "real" art that takes "real" effort, not compared to the other kinds.]

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[Transcript: I bought a red immersion blender just so I could name it Tom Servo.]

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I feel like part of the reason women's health problems don't get taken seriously. I've been to the emergency room twice in the past few years and both times after running tests it turned out it really was nothing and I just overreacted.

I was told for almost 40 years that nothing was wrong. I’ve been given countless diagnoses of mild stuff and chastised by medical staff, mainly nurses, for overreacting and malingering. At age 44 I walked into my PCP’s office and told her I knew what I had and demanded the blood test. She didn’t believe me. She refused because it was something I learned about from the internet. I insisted and she shrugged, said it was my money, and did the test. As the blood was being drawn she told me she wasn’t scheduling a follow up because she knew it would be negative. Nonny, I tested off the charts. Anything over .1 is positive and I came back 92. I didn’t mix up or forget any decimals.

Here’s the real kicker: I first started having symptoms ten years before the first doctor identified commonalities of my disease. I was telling my parents I was sick twenty years before the disease was finally discovered and thirty years before they developed a blood test for it. It was another ten years after that when I figured out that’s been plaguing me since I was four years old. Forty years. Forty goddam years.

Your body will tell you when something is wrong. Doctors aren’t likely to listen but that doesn’t mean everything is fine.

The thing is that I almost immediately feel fine or almost fine the next day. The problems I went to the emergency room for weren't ongoing. I'm sorry that happened to you, but that's not me. I'm a stereotypical hysterical reactionary woman.

You could have health anxiety, what used to be called hypocondria.

Goddamn I am sorry that you've had to live with that, anon. Just - Jesus.

Yeah I once turned up at the ER and almost passed out and couldn't walk. The nurses and doctors treated me with absolute disgust because they thought I was hysterical. Turned out I was about to die of sepsis. Only narrowly survived. I'll never forget the contempt with which the medical staff treated me though simply because I was a woman who couldn't walk somewhere by herself.

My sister's daughter said her period pain was so bad she threw up and almost passed out at work.
My sister told her to take some Midol and get over it.
Yes she's a conservative Christian. Yes, she centers her entire life around her husband and a vital point of her pain is that she does everything and he does drugs with his buddies.
The the while the pain of them teach their children to carry an air of superiority because they've accepted Jesus Christ as their lord and savior.

I have told so many girls and women in my life, advocate for yourself when it comes to your health. Advocate and speak up because no one else will. A lot of medical professionals (and professionals in almost any field in my experience) will rather take the easy route and up with a routine than stop for a moment and really be present for their client (many I've interacted with will listen and help when I took extra effort to speak up and take a little more of their time, but I always had to be like, "Can I ask one more thing?"/"Is there another option?"/"I need more help with...").

The the while the pain of them teach their children to carry an air of superiority because they've accepted Jesus Christ as their lord and savior.
I think I mean to say:
Then all the while they spend all their time teaching their children to carry an air of superiority

I think it's a bad idea to conflate "a medical doctor can't fix this using typical doctor tools" with "overreaction." Nothing being medically wrong (presumably, some problems are intermittent so.....), doesn't mean your body isn't communicating with you that something needs to change.

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