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Myra Bones

@heil-elsa-the-evil-queen / heil-elsa-the-evil-queen.tumblr.com

Just a lil plushy fandom nerd 18 holland, gay she/her
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Psychic buying clothes

Employee: How about this one?
Psychic: That shirt is too small
Employee: You didn't even try it on
Psychic: I'm a medium
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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.

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nightgigjo

Being constantly hounded to “just lose 5 or 10 pounds” when you came in for a fucking bronchial infection. Being talked over when you try to emphasize the fact that, not only did you not come in to talk about your weight, you are also recovering from an eating disorder.

The amount of eye rolls and shitty recommendations I got from doctors when trying to find the cause of my sexual pain was astounding.

It’s almost going blind after a years worth of appointments that culminated in the doctor telling me to “come back when you have a real problem” and finally getting referred to a specialist that found that I had spinal fluid pooling in my brain and pressing on my optic nerve causing me to slowly go blind.

Going to the emergency room over and over again, because of severe abdominal pain, vomiting after meals, and weight lose. Having a doctor not talk to you, but your father instead. Then being put on anti-psychotics (the doctor said they were anti-anxiety), after the doctor tells your father that you’re faking it for attention. Going back to the emergency room a year later in so much pain you’re delirious, only to be left there for hours, because they still think you could be faking it. Only to find out that you have gallbladder pancreatitis and it’s gotten so bad that emergency surgery is the only option and you almost die because NO ONE took you seriously because not only were you female but your were a teenager.

There are actually research articles and opinion pieces on this. My two favorites include “How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously” and “The Girl Who Cried Pain” 

My whole experience when trying to discover the cause of my pain was shitty male doctors denying me a diagnosis until a got a specialist for my chronic pain disorder. Most telling me that I was just after pain Meds. Then when I had an antibiotic resistant strain of strepsis I had to beg doctors to take me seriously. To stop telling me there was nothing to be done or that tonsillectomy wasn’t an a good option. I had several forms of full blown strep for 2 years before a doctor agreed to surgery. I had tonsils so infected they fully touched each other in my throat. I had to go on my graduation trip fully sick because no doctor would believe me that it was serious. Finally they took my tonsils out (after ten visits and rounds of child level antibiotics) they told me I had the most diseased tonsils the surgeon had seen in his 20 years of practice. I haven’t had strep since. I had to suffer for two years

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bratush

shoutout to all the kids who

- grew up smart and lost it when they got to high school and dont know what happened

- are so bright but just cant focus academically

- are told their effort isnt good enough when in reality they just dont understand

- are too shy to ask for help and go without it and therefore dont reach the potential they know they have

- are brilliant in class but underperform in exams

- have to pretend that they dont care about their grades because they constantly underperform and dont want to look stupid

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