finnskywxlkxr:

mutilatedmemories:

pueppiesblog:

tehbewilderness:

kristen-the-rageful:

owl-priestess:

lesfemale:

leftiesneedrights:

lesfemale:

being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think you’re exaggerating and/or lying

define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?

no 🙂 it means going to 10 different doctors who disbelieved your symptoms until the 11th found cysts on your ovaries 🙂 which may mean infertility 🙂 sit on a cactus 🙂

or being told not being able to walk up a flight of stairs without fainting/not being able to stay awake for more than 5 hours was ‘anxiety’ until finally the 5th doctor you saw diagnosed ur CFS/ME

It’s not getting proper treatment for over a decade because people think another female only disease isn’t real. And your insurance still does not cover your prescription even though it’s the only one you can take.

Dismissing symptoms for three years before finally sending you to a specialist and suddenly everything is happening very very fast because it is so obviously cancer.

or being told for ten years that your constant stomaches are probably caused by weird eating habits, overweight or not enough work out and suddenly your gall bladder gets removed in an emergency surgery – including about 10 gall stones.

And don’t even talk to me about being (a cis) female with mental health issues.
“Do you feel the worst when you’re on your period?”
“Yes.”
“It’s probably just hormones then, honestly.”
Or, or, OR, hormones just aggravate the problems I already experience, and I still have issues every other time of the month as well.
(I had no full explanation of what was actually wrong with me until I saw a counsellor who only asked about my mental health throughout a typical week, and didn’t ask about my goddamn period, or hormones, or whether or not I had a boyfriend or had recently been through a breakup)

Or (and this was admittedly to my grandma over 40 years ago) when you, A NURSE, say that something is wrong with your daughter’s eye and three doctors, including the one you work with say you’re just overreacting until you drive to see a specialist who says,

“Call your husband and tell him to come up here now. Your daughter needs immediate surgery.”

Because oh look, the nurse was right! It’s cancer and now it’s so far gone the only thing that can be done to save the kid is to cut the eye out!