Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

Best medical advice I ever got was to bring a man to your appointments

[u/WildMoonChild0129]

I had a bad case of walking pneumonia and I was still trying to work through it. I had to go the hospital when I realized how little I could breathe. When I got there, they kept trying to ask me if I have anxiety and that I needed to calm my breathing.

I CANT BREATHE THATS THE PROBLEM!! It took hours for them to take me seriously and axtually do an x-ray. I should have brought my bf

[u/TheNectarineDiaries → u/WildMoonChild0129]

It sucks because I actually went to the doctors on my own at first and also said I was having some trouble breathing as well as my other symptoms, and I got told to come back if I wasn't better in a week

[u/WildMoonChild0129 → u/TheNectarineDiaries]

Thats so infuriating, you would think that having trouble breathing is something they take seriously

[u/Old-Badger-7367 → u/TheNectarineDiaries]

I'm so sorry and I also know exactly how this is like after going through health issues myself recently.

Being gaslit while I'm suffering and sick is NOT fun

[u/DJDanaK → u/WildMoonChild0129]

I had an obgyn literally yelling at me to calm down and breathe slowly while she was ripping my guts out during an emergency c-section. I don't know if everyone experiences this but my lungs and chest were hurting so badly and I could only take shallow breaths. Like if I could control ANYTHING my body was doing I WOULD.

[u/meltedchocolatepants → u/DJDanaK]

The Dr in my delivery room told me to stop focusing on my dry heaving so I could push. Yep, I was supposed to stop barfing at will.

Ended up in a c section

[u/gamerz1172 → u/WildMoonChild0129]

Honestly the worst part about doctors doing this is that it legitimately could be anxiety, it legitimately could just be a period or something, and it could be an unnoticed pregnancy and anything else they say women have

The problem these doctors are having is that while yes you should be aware of the possibility of it being something as (RELATIVELY) mundane like those assuming out the gate is too far of an overcorrection

Medical textbooks mention those possibilities not because it's 'almost certainly' what's going on in female patients but to be aware that these conditions can cause identification methods to fuck up or other things, they shouldn't assume these things first

It's like if a textbook on generator maintenance or something mentions "on occasion you might need to kick this type of generator to get it to work" and the guy who studied said textbook ALWAYS kicks that type of generator even when it's as simple as pushing the on button

[u/pinupcthulhu → u/gamerz1172]

For men, doctors are trained to assume the worst case scenario until testing/ scans show otherwise though. For women, they routinely do the opposite. 

[u/grudginglyadmitted → u/WildMoonChild0129]

I’ve had a pulmonary embolism and cardiac damage both blamed on anxiety because my biggest symptoms were shortness of breath and a sense of impending doom. In both cases I had to beg to get further testing because they were planning on sending me home with no workup.

[u/lilybug981 → u/WildMoonChild0129]

I was sitting in an ER after being sent there by urgent care, experiencing heart palpitations and shortness of breath bad enough to cause my vision to black out for several minutes at a time, and the doctor came walking into the room for the first time saying, "I see that you are a college aged girl, so I believe you are experiencing anxiety."

I had a fever of 102F(38.89C) and my blood oxygen levels were hovering right at 90%. For a rederence point on the later, a nurse commented at one point that she was impressed that I was talking clearly. They wouldn't let me walk unassisted because they were convinced I was on the verge of passing out. But sure, anxiety.

Yeah, no. My heart had been damaged by a virus.

[u/ohdoyoucomeonthen → u/[deleted]]

Nobody is asking for doctors to randomly give out antibiotics. The issue is when doctors don’t even bother to run the proper tests.

[u/ContemplatingFolly → u/[deleted]]

Asking and listening to the answer how long they have been ill is a good indictor of a more serious problem. Blood counts indicating infection and Xrays indicating pneumonia are pretty quick. If you think there are no cases where a doc is dismissive and patients have to advocate, or leave and come back, you would be mistaken. Just the thing one wants to do when ill.

[u/WildMoonChild0129 → u/[deleted]]

I wasnt asking for antibiotics jackass, I was trying to figure out why I couldnt breathe and all they were telling me is that it was anxiety and to go home

[u/ContemplatingFolly → u/[deleted]]

Yeah u/WildMoonChild0129 has nothing better to do than get online and make up symptoms. And every case of walking pneumonia is exactly alike.

Why are you even on Reddit if you don't believe people? This is impressively dickish behavior.

[u/GuiltyEidolon → u/[deleted]]

The anti-medicine sentiment on this site is fucking awful. A lot of bots stirring shit, and lay people who don't want to be educated on why and how things are done.