Just insidious

I hope she reported that asshole, wtf

Edit: Since people keep replying telling me it’s not an emergency or that the poster is manipulating the story — I think the prefaced “If this scenario is real and presented accurately, then…” should be implied on the internet. Call me crazy, but in this particular moment I don’t think immediately questioning a black woman’s experience with the medical industry is like…the move

I was rudely ignored once as a kid. Now, I speak up and voice my concern no matter what.

It’s infuriating how often male doctors ignore or shrug off the pain and suffering they see in female patients. A woman almost has to be actively dying in front of them in order for them to acknowledge that something must be done.

I swear to god if I see another comment saying fibroids and cysts “aren’t an emergency.” NO SHIT. That doesn’t mean they don’t EXIST and can’t cause complications down the line. If this doctor gave a shit he would explain what was causing the pain and encourage her to follow up with her gyno instead of just saying “you’re fine.” Jesus Christ y’all.

“Those are normal for women but we don’t do that kind of research so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ “

I had an ultrasound after bleeding for two straight months. I showed the result to my PCP (female) who had forced my OB to order the US for me. My PCP identified two ovarian cysts. My OB (male) said nothing about the cysts and when I asked he said, “oh yeah those just happen sometimes but it wouldn’t cause the bleeding”.

I occasionally get EXCRUCIATING pain in my lower left abdomen… the side the cysts are on… but sure.. it just happens.

There’s so many horror stories about these Drs neglecting black woman and children specifically that it’s sickening.

I got a CT done once for groin pain, doctor said everything looked good. Read the report and it said I had bilateral inguinal hernias. Kinda scary that my doctor didn’t know how to read

This happened to me!! I am also a black woman. I had so much pain, went to the doctor and she was just like, “I mean besides your ovarian cyst I don’t see anything in the area and I’m not sure why you’re experiencing pain”. I said, “My what?” She went on to explain that most women can’t feel them and I should try to ignore it. I went to a second doctor who asked if i was anxious and maybe my anxiety was causing a “mental pain loop”. Anyway I ended up in the ER when it ruptured and I collapsed which – apparently is something cysts can do. Neither doctor warned me that could happen and it was indescribably painful.

You have to be your own advocate. I was in the second best shake of my life when I got gout. I was a beast in the gym, heavy weighted dips and chin-ups, running 8 miles at 8 miles an hour at 8,000 feet altitude and not breaking a hard sweat.

Doc told me to come back next day. Came back next day, injected me with lidocaine and something else and charged me $1,000.

It got worse over the years. My wife started juicing for us. A big glass of juice every morning to get going.

I had insurance. I’d see the doctor every time I had a bad flare. They never drew blood. I’d go for checkups and everything was fine. Anytime before I wouldn’t have insurance for over 13 years I’d ask for blood work. Everting came back fine.

Then I had such bad gout I couldn’t walk for almost 3 months. Had a heart attack in my sleep a couple months later. Went to the ER. They had no idea. Thickened left aorta wall. Still took a new doctor months to figure it out. They tested me for STDs first (?).

Turns out I’m type 2 diabetic. Undiagnosed for the last 13 years since I developed gout.

All those doctors, all those years. Now my arteries are that of an 80 year old smoker who eats bacon daily. They’ll never be the same.

Found out, two years after, that Covid triggered a mild case of pericarditis in me. My, at the time, old white, Israeli, cardiologist failed to mention this to me even after I told him I was having pain after exercising. It was only when I changed to a younger, black, female cardiologist that I was told. By then I was much better, but the lack of concern from the first doctor was astounding.

Well What? Well, what?!

The fuck is that supposed to mean. None of those things are normal.

Edit: By normal, I mean healthy. These are signs that something is wrong in the body.

She’s not “Fine.”

Most women on the planet right now either have fibroid(s), polyps, ovarian cysts etc.

A uterus is like a 1980’s Ford. There’s always something wrong with it, or about to go wrong.

This literally happened to me about two years ago. TMI but I was passing blood clots the size of my palm.

Thankfully I was getting all my test results online and reviewing them as they came available. The doctor apologized immediately and stated that they are sent notes from the lab and that it did not include that in the notes. WTF!? You went to school for this and cannot review this shit for yourself! ‘This is the true meaning of Incompetence personified,’ was my response to him. The awkward silence was gold. I broke the silence by requesting a referral for surgery and some medication for the pain.

love when they diagnose me with “you’re fine”

As a resident physician, a uterine fibroid and an ovarian cyst without significant vaginal bleeding or torsion, respectively, are relatively benign findings, especially if there is no evidence of malignancy on ultrasound.

I get that from a patient’s standpoint, it can sound serious and like the doctor is hiding something from you, but the ED is looking for things that would require you to stay in the hospital, i.e. an emergency. These findings are incredibly common and for a physician who deals with strokes, heart attacks, ruptured aneurysms, septic shock, perforated bowel, gunshot wounds, car accidents, and death, these things do not rise to the same level of alarm.

I do agree that we as physicians need to remember that we are not talking to people who have had the same level of training, but on the flip side I’m tired of seeing Twitter, MD act like there’s some grand conspiracy every time something isn’t explicitly disclosed by medical staff. We didn’t go into this profession to lie to you.

I had 2 quite large dermoid cysts that caused me quite a lot of pain. A part of the problem that I had to work out myself is that during every cycle I get normal fluid filled cysts as well so my cysts would basically double in size. They would get so big I couldn’t even use the bathroom because they would basically be causing a blockage and compressing other things in my abdomen. When I initially went to a specialist about it he told me I couldn’t possibly be in pain from these cysts and I’d only be in pain if I had ovarian torsion (which I didn’t have) and I must have IBS. I got the surgery to remove the cysts and from the moment I woke up I could feel the pain was gone. The recovery from the surgery was like a walk in the park because I’d been dealing with so much pain for years that I didn’t even notice the incision sites. I didn’t even take any pain killers I just felt great

I had a duel colonoscopy/endoscopy while female and the doctor who saw me literally told me everything was fine and that smoking weed was making me throw up. Then my boyfriend got there and the doctor changed his tune, stood up straight and everything. My boyfriend could see that I was very upset (and still pretty sedated) so he asked the doctor what he found. Said he found six ulcers, a hiatal hernia, celiac disease, and a significantly redundant colon. 👍

One time, I had to go to the ER because I was in pain. They gave me a cup to pee in, but no one ever picked it up. The cup was literally on the table next to me, and the doctor comes in and says they ran tests on it and it came back fine. I picked it up and was like, “this pee?” The look on his face lol