Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

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

[u/JayRandom212]

Cis-het man here. Professionals (doctors, bankers, lawyers, consultants) will often just straight-up ignore women. But when I repeat what the woman says, they listen to me.

[u/Patient-Tomato1579 → u/JayRandom212]

This is exactly why the role of connective tissue disorder is so neglected in research, despite the fact that loose collagen also means loose blood vessels and blood pooling. But because it affects mainly women, it was neglected. Because of that, people and doctors are not aware that joint Hypermobility in beighton scale above 4 is a strong counter indication against.... taking vasodilative medication. 

Don't ask me how I know this - Viagra caused a permanent tinnitus and high frequency hearing loss for me, and my medical research and a lot of medical check-ups lead to a conclusion that it was probably because I'm hypetmobile and I have slight tendency for blood pooling (rest of my body and heart is healthy). This area was not researched at all because most of hypermobile people are women, and women with hypermobility and dysautonomia were dismissed, or misdiagnosed as low-iron individuals (as it causes the similar symptoms). I'm an example that even men loose on the fact that we neglect diseases that mainly affect women.