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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Brilliant-Chip-1751 on 2023-08-12 09:05:50.
For months I randomly had fainting, rash, moodiness, and heart palpitations. I shrugged it off at first because it was probably a weird couple of days. Besides, I already felt like a burden after asking my friends for rides to work.
Eventually I realized it kept reoccurring. So, on an especially bad day, I went in to the clinic. I was so worried I’d faint & get in a car crash on the way there. After waiting an hour in a patient room, the young male doctor said no tests were needed since I am a “young healthy woman”. I insisted on an EKG. After that was done, they left me alone again. All of a sudden, I felt super nauseous and laid down on the cold sterile exam table to semi-successfully keep my dinner down while I waited for results. What if it wasn’t that and now I owed them hundreds for an EKG? I just hoped they’d be able to tell me the cause.
Half an hour later, the brunette doctor walked in again. He flippantly asked about my periods and sexual activity while looking through the test results. At last, he looked up from his ipad and diagnosed me as “overweight & anxious”.
9 months, many doctors, a self diagnosis, and a 400mile trip to an allergist later: I have a hormonal autoimmune disease.
Turns out, the fainting was my organs shutting down. I could’ve died.
Women’s symptoms aren’t taken seriously at ALL.
I am a little sad to lose my medical designation as simply TOO bootylicious though