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sarahsweets · Aug 27, 2021 at 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Cocosurviving

II feel like male nurse practitioners,doctors and specialists don’t get it. Don’t get that mainly women are taking kids (a kid) to school, picking kids up from school, helping with homework, cooking dinner, taking kids to sports activities etc. I don’t get, how they don’t comprehend, patients can’t sleep our lives away.

Oh @Cocosurviving dont get me started. I started perimeno early when I was 40. All the awful symptoms but...bloodwork was negative. Had a UTERINE biopsy- normal. So I got the "run along and play nice" talk from my male ob. 2 years of the endochronologist( all he wanted was to sell me his wl program ( I had gastric bypass in 07 kept all 127lbs off but have about 10-12 lbs of skin. Um no, I eat clean f**k off. (seriously. if you want to see before and after pm me.}

Still looking for decent rheumatologist- in three years i have had 5 joint surgeries. I literally got so sick it triggered reactive arthritis, then inflammatory arthritis and now RA and within a year my joints just started to go. I am 46! I am still young, pretty sure I look ok.. what gives?

I know men can be good OBGYN's and great baby birth docs but i am starting to think the men left for us hot-flashing, sweaty, insomnia ridden ladies have never even seen a vagina before.. fumbling around and mumbling....lol "doc, you want me to hold the swabs for you"

BUT on a serious note can you help me understand ableism? I just want to understand so I dont carry the implicit bias and offend someone