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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I got extensively checked out for why I was in pain all the time after I ate, losing massive amounts of weight to the point of near-starvation and felt like I had food stuck in my esophagus all the time. Doctors tested me for a couple of weeks for physical esophagus problems, declared I was fine, and sent me to a psychologist who grilled me for 45 minutes about whether I believed the tests or I "still thought something was wrong with me". I told her I believed the tests but that they were not the right tests yet. Pretty sure I didn't anxiety myself into losing 60 pounds in 4 months and losing my house, work and relationship... she declared I had "health anxiety". Oops, turned out I was actually developing LADA, a form of type 1 diabetes. I ended up at the ER later on and they said I would have died or gone into a coma in another 1-2 days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Insanely bad doctor, wow. Losing a ton of weight super quick is like one of the biggest symptoms of diabetes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish I'd figured it out myself. One problem was I was recovering from Celiac, and tried a very restricted diet, and a liquid diet - which actually worked when I started doing chicken in a blender (which is much better than it sounds, especially when you've been starving for 4 months). Tell a doctor 'I was starving and I went to this weird restricted diet' and it seems they have a really hard time with the order of things. Reality was "I was starving and in pain and then I tried this restricted diet" and they hear "you were on this restricted diet, and then you were starving and in pain".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do you know what they call doctors that barely passed medical school, at the bottom of their class?

Doctors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn did you message the psychologist the truth?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More like damn did you message your malpractice lawyers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't even have to be a mystery illness. A woman can walk into the clinic with a broken rib, and doctors will tell her it's menstrual cramps (true story from my partner).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck, that would make me so mad. Like holy shit, what a fucking lazy PoS.

Clearly they should have xrayed themselves before coming in. The audacity of some of these people seeking "medicine". Pathetic.

(The largest /s)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good God that caught me so off guard