Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

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

[u/the-effects-of-Dust]

I went to the emergency room after experiencing abdominal pain in my lower right quadrant for a full 24 hours. I remember thinking “I without a shadow of a doubt know this is appendicitis.” (Surprisingly it didn’t hurt as much as I thought but I also have endometriosis so like — pain tolerance is weird for me) ANYWAY
Triage nurse told me it couldn’t be appendicitis because I didn’t have a fever. I had to demand a ct scan or whatever they used to diagnose that and had to cry and talk to a doctor before they would.

Anyway my appendix had not exploded yet but had split open and was leaking pus into my abdominal cavity and if they sent me home I would have likely died 😇 (so said my surgeon after I came to the next morning).

Edit: I forgot to add my favorite part! I had pretty good health insurance at the time (like, US standards…so…) but I went to a hospital out of network so I was initially billed $28,000 for my surgery! My surgeon had to argue the insurance company down because “it was literally a life or death emergency” so they brought it down to $3,000. Which I still haven’t paid. Because poverty. 😇

[u/Frosty_Relative1118 → u/the-effects-of-Dust]

I have a similar story. Went to the dr with abdominal pain, he said “it doesn’t hurt enough when I poke her so it’s not appendicitis” and then proceeded to diagnose it as a UTI with no urine test. The next morning I was still in pain so we went to the ER instead, and after about 12 hours of getting the run around and waiting for specialists and what not, they did the cat scan and found it had ruptured. Got me into surgery real fucking quick after that. But had they fucked around much longer, death would have been the result. I was 12.