Dott.ssa Liz O’Riordan: La salute delle donne deve essere presa più sul serio
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg546z1eeypo
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Liz is a great person. Worked with her many years ago. She’s so passionate about the causes in her life.
It *is* a problem. Take medical research and common health advice, for example. It tends to be focused on men, even though women sometimes have different symptoms. Then there’s the thing where doctors and nurses – even female ones – are known to take women’s pain less seriously, *especially if they’re not white*, or dismiss their reports of symptoms as overreaction or mere anxiety. This gets women killed all the damn time.
There are so many issues here that need to be addressed, but the key one is that women are not listened to by doctors and when we have something more complicated and difficult to understand, it’s often put down to mental health. I don’t know why it’s so hard to get doctors to listen to us and I don’t know what the answer is – but it needs to change rapidly. I’d be interested to hear if any men had similar experiences too
I agree, practically laughed out of A&E because of debilitating periods, while NHS online told me the symptoms were A&E worthy lol. Several appointments later and pretty much nothing can be done other than birth control that I don’t want
The only time my Dr listens to me (both male and female drs) is when i bring my husband who backs me up about my symptoms (mainly stomach for years now)
Last appointment my Dr said
“Well considering your age could you be pregnant ?” i am on the implant
“Could it be a weight issue” I have gone from 17 stone 5 to 11 stone 1 (my BMI my last Dr told me to aim for was 11 stone 3)
“Have you taken a pregnancy test just to be sure” again i have an implant in my arm
“Oh you suffer from Anxiety and PTSD as well as ADHD, You could be worrying so much its giving you stomach complications” …
“What is your diet like” this one was a fair question and i let him know of my diet change over the last 3 years due to losing weight and being in a calorie deficit .. good advice was eating more fibre and drinking more water which is fair il give him that
“Ok so you think it could be Endo ? ok well the wait list is 2 years so il have to hand you over to a female Dr.. here is some stool softener tablets and laxative liquid that should help il let her know tomorrow for you” It does help but the problems come back and this is my 5th time being given something like (peppermint oil tablets, orange powder stool softener, buscapan)
This was a month ago and i have not heard anything back. Still suffering with stomach issues. Been having this since i was 16 and im 31 now. At first my weight was blamed but i lost the weight and now its my age and my mental health.
Its horrible being scared something is wrong with you and feeling like nobody is taking you seriously. Only reason i have been listened to sometimes is because my husband has been with me thank goodness. On my own they never take me seriously and always dismiss me and say what im experiencing is normal.