This Twitter Thread Has 35 Women Sharing The Moments A Doctor Completely Ignored Their Concerns, And Now They Have To Face The Consequences

As someone recovering from a car accident, WTF? I didn't have anything near this level and was still treated well, especially after an anxiety attack. Now i don't look feminine, maybe that's it? It breaks my heart the lives that could have been better/saved if doctors would shut up and listen

This is actually really smart.

I've had acid reflux since I was 6 or 7. I once told a doctor about it, wanting to look for solutions. He told me I was too young to have it and my weight was the problem. Same doctor also said my flu-like pms was "normal."

Sadly, true. Some irresponsible doctors assume stuff just because they do not seem to get it that no one actually exists to bore them out. Some, despite elite training and years of experience, does not realize patients are human beings, not just whiny or mentally incapable. Luckily, there are still good doctors out there.

They really dont care about their patients at all. I have been told today by my doctor that "endometriosis and CFS (chronic fatigue sindrome) dont cause disabilities ". I guess that i am no longer disabled and I will be magically cured. Or more likely that i will live the rest of my life in pain with no help whatsoever from doctors or the government

Women get the short end of the stick on every level.

Mine was found during an annual gyn exam, which wouldn’t necessarily happen today now that they only do them every few years. There’s a lot to be said for a yearly check-in, especially for women in their late 30’s on up, or anyone with pain, irregular bleeding, etc. even if they think they know what’s going on.

a family can still be complete without human kids or even fur babies. the worst part (especially for straight women) is that they'll be like, oh, what if you find a guy you want to have the child with? like, are you really putting your patients reproductive autonomy in the hands of a man you don't know?

…and that doc was a woman? Extra f’d up!

People don't realize that Planned Parenthood is about SO much more than abortions. My parents went there back in the 50s for fertility issues, & when I couldn't afford medical care, they put me on a payment schedule.

On the other hand...if you're vegan or vegetarian they assume you must be vitamin deficient and test you constantly. Levels are always normal, including B's D's and Iron, and they never address my actual problem.

Oh lord move out of Texas, that’s the best advice anyone can give you right now!

220 pounds of muscle? Sheesh, that doctor should be SCARED.

Don't ever belive any doctor who says that your pain is prolly "just menstrual pain". And even if it was menstrual pain, if it's SO BAD it's NOT NORMAL and means something is wrong, may be endometriosis, may be something else. There is no "just" with menstrual pain nor any pain.

Yes! I've lost 60-ish pounds in the last three years and suddenly it's all "was that lump there before? No? We need to biopsy this right now!" Turned out to be lipoma (non cancerous fat tumor).

Oh hi mom! ;)

Does that idiot really think that everyone who isn’t Olympic runner skinny wheezes on their way to the car?

It took me til the age of 25 when I finally had a FEMALE GP to realize that not everyone fainted, vomited, couldn't move for three days every month during their period. Endo. Funny that. I got my period at 12.

You don't say....

Of course it's the US. Where else would doctors miss a mango sized cyst just because they don't feel like calling insurance and explaining why she needed a MRI. Lazy a*s****

Going through this right now but I was put on vitamin D for a deficiency already and my symptoms still haven't improved. I keep getting told it's my anxiety when I know it's not. I'm having increased anxiety because no one seems to be able to tell me what's wrong with me.

Horrible.

I feel this one. Similar thing happened to me at 19. Was told to lose weight and my feet wouldn't hurt. Too bad I have PsA and my angel if a GP is watching for Lupus.

Sadly it happens in every country

In this case I believe she is referring to fibromyalgia.

I can imagine the doctor just being like "Huh, who knew this was there?"

Humans are technically animals, so a vet is totally qualified to self-diagnose if the human doctors are being useless! XD

Got told exactly that twice as a kid when in hospital for agonising stomach pain. Guess who just had 2 grape-sized ovarian cysts removed?

Oh no, that's terrible!! The more I read here, the more I really want to become a doctor (I'm still a student) that actually can solve those problems. That listens to clients and takes them serious. There should be more!

i have no degree, but Im pretty sure the severeness of a burn has noting to do with weight? please correct me if I'm wrong.

Recreational ablation? What the f does that even mean?

I was also diagnosed with fibromyalgia. It means muscle pain and was The tre chic Diagnosis a while back. What they tell you to shut you up. Turned out to be MS

I was told by an orthopedic surgeon that my neck disc bulge was not causing my arm pain. When I questioned this statement, because it is contrary to every other doctor i have seen, he attacked me verbally. He said he could not operate on someone as fat as i am. He could refer me to get a gastric bypass. It was so out of no where. I was just there to get a consult to see if any of my issues were operational. I gave a poor review for him and he called me trying to apologize. He was trying to say that i misunderstood him. I told him i did not trust him or his judgement and believed he attacked me verbally when i questioned his medical opinion. I did not back down and he was almost whining by the end trying to get me to take my review down. I also let the referring dr office know how he treated me and to please not send people there.

WTF?! That’s SO rude!! 😡😤

Kidney stones should be easy to diagnose but one day a few years ago I was at work and had pain on my right side. Went to clinic and they told me I had appendicitis and had to go to the ER. I went to the ER and they tested me for everything under the sun. First came back that it wasn't appendix so had to be a burst ovarian cyst. Very painful ultrasound later and "you have a ton of cysts but they're all in tact". 8 hours later ... "You have a kidney stone".

Same. I spent many years of my youth going to A&E with severe abdominal pain, sometimes screaming/bawling my eyes out … only to be told it was “just constipation” EVERY time, then sent home with paracetamol & laxatives they’d prescribe for infants/younger children (I was over 14). They never even suggested a colonoscopy, despite labelling me with constipation & noting that I was repeatedly coming to their hospital screaming in agony. Well, they regretted their continued negligence after the night of December 21st 2013. Same as before, except I wasn’t even crying out in pain (it worried my mum, as I was too “out of it”). I felt a blockage & when they checked my urine, it was black. They still sent me home with the same “it’s just constipation”, this time giving my mum a suppository. I was on life-support in a better hospital 24 hours later, fighting sepsis & then a ruptured bowel that could’ve been saved if they’d treated me sooner (& I wasn’t expected to survive at all, was in a coma for a whole 5 weeks & didn’t get home until April 2014, though it certainly wouldn’t be the last hospital treatment since then). The court case is still ongoing, but they now realise how badly they’ve screwed themselves, as I’m still suffering even now & I lost my lower right leg in September 2019 to a secondary infection from “Post-Sepsis Syndrome”. 🤷‍♀️😕

My sister got discriminated against because she was an alcoholic. She was told that if she stopped drinking all her health problems would go away. She went to the dermatologist about a spot on her back that was burning (it looked like a typical mole) & was dismissed. 6 months later she passed away from melanoma.

Because they don't listen/believe/CARE! If it doesn't affect their bottom line it doesn't matter. Best of wishes for you.

8 pounds!!! That's more than my son weighed at birth.

Scary.

Greed can kill more than your soul it seems.

Oh! I know that one! Turned out that I drove 120km round-trip WITH A BROKEN HEEL and damaged achilles tendon for two months because the doc said "Enh. It's just a bruise." Finally the third time, when worker's comp was about to cut me off, they took the Xray *from a different angle" and the break was clear as day. 10 months of p/t did almost nothing, and when they wrote me off they offered me $500 as a reparation. Thankfully the WC judge disagreed, though what am I supposed to do with 2k to deal with life-long pain?

Definitely. At this point if the patient doesnt do the research and diagnose herself she wont get a treatment. The only way is to find what you might have, find which specialist might doagnose that illness, keep changing specialists until one listens and then maybe get a diagnosis and a treatment.

Unpopular comment here: So when they were talking about body mass, they were mainly concerned with visceral fat. That's the fat that is attached directly to your organs. Heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, etc. Everyone has this. However, when you're obese (high Body Mass Index - BMI), the amount of fat on your organs prevents proper function. Hearts, liver, lungs, kidneys all have to work harder and are less effective and begin to fail. It vastly increases the dangers of surgery. Downvote me if you must, but I'm basing this on first-hand knowledge.