This definitely isn’t just a female thing. We were all exchanging doctor stories the other night and everyone had ones like this. Weirdly they were all in the past few years and that being gaslit or dismissed by a doctor just feels normal now.
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Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Spouse was at a dentist visit and her blood pressure was so high they threatened to call an ambulance. Has been that high off and on for weeks.
Take her to the doctor, doc knows she’s had a full hysterectomy, knows she doesn’t exaggerate, knows she refuses to take anything medincinal unless forced. This lady raw dogs migraines to avoid Ibuprofen.
First words out if doc’s mouth, “BP that high isn’t unheard of in women having their periods. Are you sure it’s not your time of the month?” Followed by, “well I’m sure you’re just nervous around doctors, it will go down when you get home.”
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 days ago
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Doctors are useless assholes nowadays, more interested in yapping about themselves than anything remotely useful.
I’d rather have a drunk North Korean veterinarian who lost his license and doesn’t understand a word of English address my issues than any of the psychotic freaks Canada is cranking out lately.
Wren@lemmy.today 5 days ago
It’s still hard for to believe I was denied renewal of a medication I was already on for years for serious mental health problems, because “maybe you just need to get out more,” or “might be on your period.” By multiple GPs.
It took two years of waiting for a female psychiatrist to find someone who was like “Oh yeah, you’ve got severe depression, ADHD, AND psychosis from untreated severe depression, let’s get you on meds ASAP.”
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Sounds like that’s all in your head. Did you see that on the internet?
(My imitation of a doctor. Pretty good huh?)
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
doc knows she’s had a full hysterectomy, knows she doesn’t exaggerate, knows she refuses to take anything medincinal unless forced.
Sounds like medical PTSD. I’ve fucked my liver taking OTC meds in very high dozes cuz I don’t trust doctors. Had to have an emergency hysterectomy at 38 because they wouldn’t listen. That kind of pain is indescribable.
Had a cardiologist come into my room with a team of students to prove I only had anxietyand hypochondria a few years ago. Shortly after, Was diagnosed with Dysautonomia shortly after and I now have a pacemaker.
I’m done with doctors and would rather just die at home at this point. Fuck them.
Sorry for your spouse. ‘Womanly’ pain is the worst pain there is, imo.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 days ago
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Zorcron@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
High blood pressure alone is not an emergency. Definitely something to be concerned about preventing/treating in the long term, but no blood pressure number alone warrants an ambulance without also having symptoms of something like a heart attack or stroke that indicates organ damage.
That said, that kind of blasé approach to markedly elevated blood pressure with no real plan to reassess or find a root cause is still unacceptable, especially lazily blaming it on menstruation like is so common. So not trying to undermine your experience, I just had to chime in bc the “hypertensive crisis” thing is a pet peeve of mine.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah this very much depends on the actual specific number. I work inpatient so I don’t blink at 155 systolic because we’re gonna take it again in 12h and honestly these days the hospitalist says current evidence supports not even treating emergently until 170. 140s to me is a GP/PCP’s problem 3 months from now and 130s they’ll probably just tell the person to eat less salt. There’s also the possibility that the doctor just figured she wouldn’t take anything anyway based on this person’s description.
Zorcron@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
No seriously, there is no number that you treat emergently without accompanying signs of end-organ damage. The AHA recommends considering “permissive hypertension” even for SBPs over 180. So you could be 220/180 and if no other symptoms or signs of organ damage, you get treated the same as someone who is 145/95, and even then that’s only if the hypertension is chronic. The only difference is it will probably take a lot more meds to chronically control someone whose bp is that extreme.
AHA’s 2024 review article for reference
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Idk, I’d say a blood pressure of 300/200 or 50/20 would warrant an ER ambulance trip, even without symptoms
Zorcron@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I guess we could argue at what point it is no longer physically possible to be asymptomatic with an extremely high blood pressure, but to date there is no evidence to support the treatment of the blood pressure number alone in the acute setting.
Low blood pressure is a separate issue, but also only really treated if causing issues for a patient; however similarly, one questions the plausibility that a patient could be properly perfusing their organs and therefore have no other signs/symptoms of organ damage with a mean arterial pressure of ~30 mm Hg.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think once I got near that level post dialysis and had no symptoms…
Until the moment I stood up. Then it was all the symptoms.
Likewise, I haven’t have 300/200, but did have 200+/150+, and didn’t have symptoms… Until I went to try to sleep for the night.
That’s the issue with your premise. It’s reactionary treatment rather than preventative, and from personal experience preventative is much more pleasant.
But I suppose in the USA the standard for example is reactionary treatment due to healthcare only being private and the insurance companies not wanting to pay up.
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
50/20 is just about my normal resting.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You’re pretty short aren’t you? 😅
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 5 days ago
Every lady’s experience in a red state. Seriously, I’m not making a joke, being a “conservative” as defined in the US political system NEEDS to be categorized as a mental disorder that precludes people from being doctors at the least.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 5 days ago
There are so many misogynists in the center (we don’t have a real left) that the orange idiot beat two women.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 4 days ago
I mean, beating Hillary was semi-predictable given all her baggage, but beating Harris was … quite a sad display of how shitty the US is.