Anonymous #2 9w

Bless you both omg, so glad you found him

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Anonymous #5 9w

“Have you considered that you’re a piece of crap who should have their medical license revoked?”

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Anonymous #3 9w

It was AMAZING lmao I literally was dreading the visit bcos I was supposed to meet with my previous and batshit crazy doctor and when I got to the office they were like “:( she called out. There’s an APRN you can talk to, though?” And he’s the best medical professional I’ve ever worked with and he has basically all the same prescription and referral powers as an MD. His home office is actually 4x the drive of the office I used to go to but I drive it with pleasure every time 💅

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Anonymous mother_russia 9w

I could rant forever about the medical community neglecting women and just never studying them. It’s so ridiculous

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Anonymous #11 9w

It sucks. Women have to balance estrogen, progesterone, FSH, LH, and testosterone and the balance changes by day. Men have daily hormone cycles not monthly ones, and their main one is testosterone, so it’s easier to test their hormone(s).

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Anonymous #11 9w

And btw this is coming from someone who bled every 2 weeks until I was started on BC. I never figured out what was wrong with me, they just ruled out PCOS. But if BC helps then there’s not much of a reason to know what exactly is wrong

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Anonymous #11 9w

The doctors did the same thing to me for bleeding every other week, then the birth control made me super sick and I had to go off of it only to find out I had endometriosis the whole time and that’s what caused the periods to be bad. I tried every single kind of birth control and all of them caused severe side effects. I now will be getting a hysterectomy to remove my uterus because the only real treatment option they have for a health issue that effects 10% of all women, is birth control.

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Anonymous #11 9w

Birth control masks symptoms and is just a bandaid doctors slap onto women when they don’t know what’s wrong. Acne? Birth control. Cysts? Bc. Painful periods? Bc. Heavy bleeding? PPD? Pmdd? Ibs? That kind of complacent attitude with “well if birth control helps then no need to know what’s wrong” is exactly how women die. Because it masks symptoms and allows health issues to get worse and women to get sicker with no diagnosis.

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Anonymous #11 9w

And I’m not kidding about the women dying. Women take YEARS longer to get diagnosed with cancer, metabolic disorders, chronic illnesses, etc. than men. About 2.5 years of disparity for cancer to be specific. If a doctor feels a lump on a woman and assumes it’s a cyst and just puts her on birth control, it could actually make a huge difference if they had tested her then compared to months/years later when they decide the birth control isn’t treating it and actually running tests.

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Anonymous mother_russia 9w

I’m sorry that you were failed- they’re supposed to rule out other diseases first, that’s first day shit.

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Anonymous mother_russia 9w

So, bc doesn’t JUST mask symptoms, most of the time. Rather, when it works, it’s usually because it suppresses the problem temporarily, so it doesn’t get worse and it doesn’t get better. You go off it? Problem picks up from the exact spot you suppressed it at. Keep taking bc? Problem stays supressed. Almost every problem docs say it “fixes” can only get worse if your hormones are unregulated, the bc regulates them enough to pause the issue.

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Anonymous #12 9w

The same can be said about most medications tbf

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Anonymous #11 9w

Too true

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Anonymous #11 9w

Like you ABSOLUTELY need to know what’s causing the issue. Treating the symptoms is not enough at all. Especially because birth control is not a medication women can be on indefinitely and they will have to go off if it to either have kids or because the health risks become too high. I encourage you (and everyone else) to not accept not testing for anything and being put on medications. We want answers, then treatment. We shouldn’t be playing a guessing game.

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Anonymous #12 9w

Birth control CAN treat some things even temporarily, but if you don’t know what you have they shouldn’t be putting you on it. Like yes I can pause endometriosis from growing or stop the symptoms of it by temporarily causing the growths to shrink, but you should get a diagnosis THEN a treatment. Because otherwise it absolutely masks symptoms. It can lessen your symptoms or hide symptoms or doctors attribute new symptoms to the side effects of the meds so it never gets addressed.

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Anonymous #12 9w

I obviously feel very strongly about this because it fucked me up for two years and the only reason I got a real diagnosis is because I had to repeatedly push my doctors to test me and demand answers. Birth control is treated like the perfect cure for so many women and everyone is told to go on it but it has so many side effects and causes so many medical issues because of how it’s over prescribed and doctors don’t ever look further into women’s symptoms.

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Anonymous mother_russia 9w

Sorry for the rant, I’ve just been fighting everyone for the past like 5 years trying to receive real medical care all because of how much doctors rely on birth control to do their medical practice on women 😭 I feel many intense things about it

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Anonymous #4 9w

This happened to my friend when she had kidney stones. They just told her it was her period and to take ibuprofen and sent her home

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Anonymous mother_russia 9w

No offense but I worked all day and I simply cannot read all of that, good night

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Anonymous mother_russia 9w

that’s fair, and infuriating that you were denied proper care for years

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