Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

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

[u/North-Pea-4926]

Yep. Complain too much and they think you are just being dramatic. Don’t complain enough and they brush you off.

How about believing that I wouldn’t take the time, energy, and money (USA) if it wasn’t serious and just running the test!

[u/lexkixass → u/North-Pea-4926]

Complain too much and they think you are just being dramatic

Or drug-seeking. 🙄

[u/b00w00gal → u/lexkixass]

Got called drug-seeking once for asking the doctor to please listen to my lungs and not just send me home, after six weeks with a cough that wouldn't go away. Ended up in the ER three days later with walking pneumonia, wheeeeeee. 😭😭😭

[u/MimicoSkunkFan2 → u/b00w00gal]

My favorite is when it's some kind of women's issue they always tell you just drink juice and try to reduce your stress, and have you considered maybe losing another 5 lbs?

Like never mind that I'm within the normal weight range and it turns out I actually need two surgeries to fix what's wrong. Wankers.

[u/Farranor → u/MimicoSkunkFan2]

That's happened to me too and I'm a man. I don't know if it would need surgery to fix because I just gave up on fixing it.

[u/MimicoSkunkFan2 → u/Farranor]

I'm sorry but I have to doubt that you needed an gynecological surgeon, sir.

Find the doctor who'll fix your shit though my dude, life is too short to mess with "Graduate of the Obscure Sixth-Rate College of Medicine" type of doctors like that.

[u/Farranor → u/MimicoSkunkFan2]

😄 My bad, I didn't mean the same medical issue, just the generic medical solutions even though there may be an underlying issue that might call for surgery. In my case, trouble sleeping. I got several prescriptions for Trazodone (didn't help) before they listened to me saying I think it's a breathing/sinus issue, at which point I got a sleep study. Their conclusion: I don't have sleep apnea, but if I do have trouble sleeping, it's because I'm fat.

Both my dad and my sister have needed septum correction surgery.

[u/MimicoSkunkFan2 → u/Farranor]

Fair enough!

It's good they did to sleep study but it sounds like a lung / oxygen test might have been a better than worrying about snoring, because it's pretty well known that mild asthma can cause poor sleep... but because you're a guy, they assumed snoring not asthma. Sorry you got stuck in a gendered assumption with your doctor too!

And I hope someone can figure out a fix for you, chronic insomnia is fucking brutual (esp when you hit 45+ ouch)

[u/wazzup-notemuch → u/Farranor]

Yup. If you're even mildly overweight, doctors will blame EVERYTHING on being fat. You could break your leg, have the bone visibly sticking out of your skin, and they would still tell you to lose weight.