[ SECRET POST #2484 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2484 ⌋

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Comments

Re: It is not society's job to raise your kids, people

[pantswarrior]

I just ranted a bit on FB, but... I've been having digestive problems since I was a little kid, and the doctors could never find anything wrong with me, so they just went "You're lying" or "it's all in your head" and sent me off to psychiatrists. It got way worse again a couple years ago, so I went to see doctors again, and once again got the "it's all in your head" crap.

So I have been googling stuff trying to find leads on my own because I don't currently have health insurance anyway, and last night stumbled across a condition which accounts for many of the symptoms that I've been struggling with for the last couple years. Reading further, one of the causes of said condition is a condition which accounts for ALL THE OTHER SYMPTOMS, WHICH I HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING SINCE I WAS NINE, WHICH THE DOCTORS SAID I WAS MAKING UP.

I'm talking actual gastroenterologists here. Not just GPs. People who SPECIALIZE in this stuff. As recently as a year ago, they were being dismissive and patronizing, when I could potentially have been given a prescription for some strong antibiotics and had this thing cleared up by now.

Beyond pissed right now.

Re: It is not society's job to raise your kids, people

[mechanosapience]

Are you a woman? Doctors always think women are just being hysterical, particularly with pain disorders like fibromyalgia.

Re: It is not society's job to raise your kids, people

[pantswarrior]

Yep. When I was a kid, they assumed I was lying to cover up an eating disorder because, you know, underweight young girl. Can't actually be having digestive problems. Just another anorexic trying to hide it.

My last gastroenterologist suggested the same thing, at which point my girlfriend got mad at him while I was trying to stop fuming long enough to respond rationally, and he stopped taking me seriously at all until I sat him down at our last visit and said "No, you LISTEN TO ME now. THIS is what is going on and why what you have said so far is a crock." And he actually did listen, admitted that he hadn't been taking me seriously since I kept having other people come in with me and he was glad to hear me speak for myself.

So he's a dick, and so am I, and we sort of came to an understanding of that and sort of bonded a little. Then I lost my health insurance before we could make any further progress. :P