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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Clownsinmypantz on 2023-09-09 19:22:40.
So I’m chronically ill, I deal with a new health issue, pain, something yearly. I’ve been dealing with all my hair falling out in my 30s recently. It’s been soul crushing but I’ve been so sick so much that you just learn to live with it, you also learn to deal with doctors downplaying sometimes but one thing that constantly just catches me off guard is the sheer amount of doctors who just downplay. I already knew the statistics, I’ve seen my mom dismissed up until death and have heard the horrible stories all from family members and friends. I know it enough but my god even in casual conversation it’s unreal.
With my hair falling out in nearly a filled to the bristles hairbrush a day with a handful or so more, it’s pretty fucking obvious it’s rapidly falling out. It doesnt matter if I brush it before a shower, my hands will be covered as I wash it. It’s all over the house. In 3 months I’ve gone from not seeing my scalp nor even feeling the wind hit it (and then with the fall-out getting scared because I never felt that before), to visible scalp and thinning. I am not joking when I say my NP with a training nurse, another NP stand-in, my therapist, my eye doctor, 2 dermatologists, hell even several friends I have, all just say “no it’s not” until I put my hand barely on my scalp and show them my hand and it shuts them up. I had to press the 2 derms to give me a punch biopsy. I don’t know if they are trying to be nice, I don’t know if its because I had alot of hair prior to this, but nobody takes my word on it until I do this and then they just “oh…yeah-”
this is merely a sample of what I have gone through since being disabled and sick but its such a concentrated, consistent example that it’s made me hate doctors even more. What is so hard about agreeing, do you honestly think a woman would be lying about rapid hair loss? If I hear “your hair looks fine” one more time I’m going to start collecting the hairbrush and shower hairloss in a ziplock and show them. Doctors need to do better and stop thinking their patients are just exaggerating constantly ffs.