The Medical Gaslighting of Endometriosis: Why doctors ignore women's pain
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2023
- Medical gaslighting is sidelining the lives of tens of millions of women in the U.S.
The World Health Organization estimates at least 1 in 10 women suffers from endometriosis. It can cause debilitating pain, but too many doctors are missing it - or dismissing it.
KATU's Angelica Thornton investigates this dark and shameful corner of medicine: bit.ly/3VBdwLS
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It took me 24 years to get a diagnosis of Adenomyosis. They told me there was nothing wrong. And now that I have the diagnosis they can't treat in a safe way.
Doctors should put their ego aside and believe us women who know something is wrong with our bodies and it's not in our heads!
It’s not just Gyns that do this Drs in every field gaslight unwell ppl. I was stage 4 first surgery for endo last surgery stage 2 but still suffer. And like most endo sufferers took me 10 years of crying about pain to get diagnosed. And the first surgery never relieved any of the pain or symptoms the second surgery did, but still suffering severe c-section and pelvic pain. And I’ve been trying to get a diagnosis for 22 years for severe butt, groin, hip and leg pain with snapping. I have a huge lump on my groin and hip the butt, groin and leg pain is so severe I can’t take it. I’ve been told by an expert that it sounds like piriformis syndrome, snapping hip or snapping hamstring syndrome. It doesn’t show on scans just like endo so because it doesn’t show I’ve been left like this pain so severe opioids barely touch it. And the dr that treats this condition that most drs don’t know about is cash only. I need help so bad I don’t know where to turn anymore I’m barely hanging on. If it wasn’t for Drs like Dr Folgelson a lot of endo women/girls would die and there’s so few like him. 🙏🏼😢💔
We need more doctors like the ones in this video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I was gaslighted for years until a doctor took me seriously about my issues and come to find out that doctor saved my life i had to get a major surgery due to extreme endometriosis and i had three blockages in my colon due to it and had infused organs had my ovaries infused together with my flopen tubes wrapped around my ovaries and emergency rooms told me i just having cyst rupture and they send me home im so glad i found a doctor that took me seriously or i most likely be dead by now with failing organs and a bowel obstruction forsure
I’m on the depo injection because I keep being gaslighted time and time again for over a decade by many medical professionals. They recently found evidence of endometriosis on an internal scan but because it was gone the next time they said I don’t have endometriosis. That’s why I put myself on the depo injection because I was getting more and more debilitated even though I was doing everything I could to naturally treat it. Now I’m able to function better. I still get symptoms but nowhere near as badly as I did
I was diagnosed with it with a diagnostic lapaoscopy. I was passing large clots in my cycle, heavy periods that would be longer than one week. having problems with nutritional deficiencies. Just keep trying to find someone who will take your case. My doctor was a fertility specialist surgeon. The diagnostic laparoscopy helped to find out exactly what was going on.
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8 momths with kidney stones to say yr fine thier is nothing wrong but that stone is still thier and im experiencing pain and weight lose and my lifes on hold for the docror to say , u have bad luck.. i have history of uti since 2 yrs old and now i have kidney wtines and docotors cant be bothered and dont care
For example: I saw a male doctor OBGYN doctor, who wanted to fully give me a hysterectomy based on if I could have one and he said yes... But also wanted me to come into the clinic prior to that to have my entire uterus scraped out without anesthesia or pain medicine ie take 600 plus milligrams of Tylenol.. In which a midwife would be doing this and not him... And then when I went in for that procedure I stopped it before it happened and he totally ignored me, He was on his phone, He seemed more interested in his phone and actually verbally stating oh I lost that phone call blah blah blah in the middle of my f*