No- you are not an hysterical female and this is not just anxiety (gallbladder, pain)
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Every single person involved with healthcare and every single person, especially women should read this article. There is much gender bias in medical care and women need to be aware of this. We all have a responsibility to be our own best advocates but too often women are silenced instead of listened to.
I went to the ER closest to my house with severe pain/pressure in my lower abdomen and vomiting. I was also having an extremely heavy period that had gone on for several weeks. The doctor I saw said it was just a period and I shouldn't waste time coming to the ER because I didn't like my period. (I went to another ER two days later for the same symptoms and was diagnosed with a UTI, kidney stone, and endometrial hyperplasia.)
My husband went to the ER closest to our house. He had pain and pressure in his abdomen. They gave him morphine and did a CT scan on his abdomen. They misdiagnosed him too...they said he had gastroparesis and told him to follow a low-residue diet, but at least they took his pain seriously. His problem turned out to be constipation.
I was amazed that we went in for things that were similiar...pain and pressure in the abdomen, but he was taken seriously and they told me I was just overreacting to my period.
I won't even begin to discuss all that has happened to me but several inattentive doctors changed the course of my life while several attentive nurses saved it.
I actually wish she had gone back to see the doctor who mis-diagnosed her to tell the doctor what happened. It would likely shock him, and would hopefully be something he would never forget. Maybe it would even change him in the future...
I actually wish she had gone back to see the doctor who mis-diagnosed her to tell the doctor what happened. It would likely shock him, and would hopefully be something he would never forget. Maybe it would even change him in the future...
There is a lot of truth to her story.
There absolutely is a lot of truth in that story; it is horrible not to be believed. Thank goodness this woman got the care she desperately needed.
She DID say she would write the doctor and let him know what happened.
I've had my trip to the ER, my daughter has had horrific complications/interactions with pharma drugs, she ended up in ICU....I don't like to think back to those years.
A huge reason more and more that I am into prevention and don't want to "need" the doctors...my daughter is there now too, pretty much anyway.
On my trip to the ER back in the 80's and the last test they did was for an ulcer which it was...they did so many tests before as they -- my thinking mind -- wanted to make as much money as they could. I told them the drug I was taking and they SHOULD have known the side effects from that anti inflammatory.
My wife had multiple medical complaints from before I met her and was never treated as a hypochondriacal female. The American medical system kept her kicking and enjoying a high quality of life until she finally passed at a ripe old age.
I think GPs are generally poor diagnosticians....they go with the woowoo-psycho diagnosis quiet often. Getting blown-off is a cover-up for not knowing how to do their job.
Yeah, I am a guy and I have had troubling-incompetence coming from most of the
fumbling-bumbling GPs that I have seen.
I remember going to the ER in the 70's while pregnant...severe pain, they told me the baby was laying on my
backbone and causing pain...turns out it was gallbladder.
I used to have constant migraines and constipation. I finally figured out it had something to do with food so I went to an allergist. I told him that I was almost afraid to eat because something was making me so sick.
So...he said, "You women! You're always concerned about your weight! I'm sending you to a dietitian."
(He must have thought I had anorexia because I was a woman.) Finally I found an allergist who tested me for foods. Soon after my testing I got a phone call from them, "Don't ever consume any dairy product again. You are extremely allergic to dairy."
I did write a letter to that obnoxious allergist, not that it did any good.
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