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Trig Apr 04, 2021 at 07:14 PM
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The worst thing experience I've ever had with healthcare was with a temporary psychiatrist. She looked at my diagnosis and said (paraphrase), "Oh god, how awful is it that you're at the time of your life where most people your age to want to be pregnant! Your children will be deformed and retarded, not to mention being born with heart and brain deformities. With your meds and your diagnosis you are the last person who should get pregnant."

I was so upset and still upset by her response, but I never said anything. It really hurt me though.
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Default Apr 04, 2021 at 07:40 PM
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When I was in college, I was constantly asked if I was pregnant, and they also tried to push birth control on me. Didn't matter to them that I wasn't having sex or having menstrual problems.
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Default Apr 05, 2021 at 12:38 AM
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I had a doctor obsessed about my weight. That’s all she would ever talk about no matter what I came in there for. Then when I started losing weight all she talked about was how she was concerned that I’d gain it back. She would also blame everything on my anxiety. I would go in there for severe side pain and throwing up and my blood work would be off and she still said it was just my anxiety.

I also had a therapist who fired me and didn’t give me a referral to another therapist. She just left me hanging and told me I was fine. Then I ended up in the hospital a couple weeks later. I got a new therapist right after that and her and my Pdoc were so pissed at the old therapist and they blamed my hospitalization on her.

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Default Apr 05, 2021 at 06:13 AM
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I had an ER Dr. tell me "There's no point in treating you, you're just going to drink again." when I went into the ER for a very dangerous withdrawal. That's about the worst thing you can say to someone who's trying to change their life.

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Default Apr 05, 2021 at 07:38 AM
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“You probably never would have been happy with anybody.” It hurts because it’s probably true.

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Default Apr 05, 2021 at 01:06 PM
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recently I had a doctor tell me that he hoped I got covid19. it made me so angry and upset, and of course, I complained to the practice and they are like yeah, course he did, and just shrugged it off

I have also been asked by a nurse in a hospital if I was their to actually get treatment or to waste their time, and if the latter, to move and give everyone else a chance (I was in for what I thought was a heart attack, but just anxiety psymptoms)

and I've been told by someone they won't treat me because I smell and I'd scare the patients

and that I should quit being a crybaby over needles and learn to take it like everyone else
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recently I had a doctor tell me that he hoped I got covid19. it made me so angry and upset, and of course, I complained to the practice and they are like yeah, course he did, and just shrugged it off

I have also been asked by a nurse in a hospital if I was their to actually get treatment or to waste their time, and if the latter, to move and give everyone else a chance (I was in for what I thought was a heart attack, but just anxiety psymptoms)

and I've been told by someone they won't treat me because I smell and I'd scare the patients

and that I should quit being a crybaby over needles and learn to take it like everyone else
What???? Doctor randomly said he hoped you got covid? What was the context?
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Default Apr 05, 2021 at 05:24 PM
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Not sure this fits.....

When I was in high school I got a RAGING case of hives that started to go internal. My lumps had lumps. ER doc walked in the room and said "oh my god" when he saw me. Didn't do much tI build my confidence.
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Default Apr 05, 2021 at 07:05 PM
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When I was in college, I told one of my professors that I had depression, and she replied, what are you talking about? You don't actually have anything to be depressed about.

The irony was that she was a professional in a field that deals with mental health, and I was in school at that time pursuing her same area of practice.

That interaction was both humiliating and disheartening.

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Default Apr 06, 2021 at 12:20 PM
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I was 48 at the time, and on my first appointment with this particular psychiatrist, I told her of my struggles and confided to her that if things don't improve for me, I'm going to kill myself on my 50th birthday. I was serious. And she laughed. 😡 Big red flag. Then she and the psychologist proceeded to treat me like I was there drug seeking because I had told the guy doing my initial assessment that I really need to be on some kind of medication. The whole thing was so awful, fulfilling my worst fears about reaching out to them. Anyway, it was only, I'll say, an 'act of God' two months before my 50th birthday, not their so-called 'help' which saved me & helped me to keep fighting. Two years ago

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Default Apr 06, 2021 at 02:34 PM
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I was at a children’s hospital in 2007 and I was there for a medical reason but I was also having mental health problems as well. Most of the doctors and nurses were scared of me. One doctor even jumped back and looked startled when I laughed at something. It really hurt my feelings how freaked out they were over my mental health issues. Then I was transferred to a medical hospital that had a pediatric psych ward in it and everyone there was fine with me.

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Default Apr 15, 2021 at 07:17 PM
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A military quack doctor telling me that my horrible constant headaches were "normal", and another military quack (for a later ailment) who told me I just needed to relax and my stomach problems would disappear. I think my mother helped him with that. She never accepted the fact that I was sick.

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Default Apr 18, 2021 at 02:21 PM
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That I'd never lose all that weight I gained after my 1st pregnancy. I lost it in 3 months.
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Default Apr 19, 2021 at 11:43 AM
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I told a PN that I was concerned about my weight and AP. She told me to quit eating at McDonald's. It was horrible because I mainly ate at home and I ate healthy things. She just made an assumption because I am overweight.

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Default Apr 19, 2021 at 12:29 PM
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I was always underweight. As an adult, I was tested to have gluten, dairy, peanuts, and various fruits and sugar sensitivities and intolerances. I looked unhealthy for all my childhood because I was eating large quantities of these trigger foods and not maintaining any weight. At that time, my family doctor told me I just needed to "eat more".. like "ice cream" and extra junk food to bulk up with. He saw my condition as a behaviour problem.
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Default Apr 21, 2021 at 04:52 PM
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I struggled with acne for many years as a teenager. My face was always oily and full of pimples. However, the doctor always said it was completely normal at that age.

I finally convinced him to give me an appointment with a dermatologist, and the dermatologist said I should have had come earlier!! I was prescribed isotretinoin because I had severe acne.


The worst thing is that some spots are starting to appear on my face again. And he's always telling me it's normal because of the mask. Almost all spots are appearing on my forehead, though... It's hilarious!
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Default Apr 21, 2021 at 08:15 PM
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My acne was actually worse in my 20s than it was in my teens. I have a lot of scarring from it.
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My acne was actually worse in my 20s than it was in my teens. I have a lot of scarring from it.
I'm sorry to hear that. I have a lot of scarring, too. It enrages me that the doctor can see them in plain sight and still doesn't recognize my acne is hard to control.
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Default Apr 22, 2021 at 11:32 AM
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A dermatologist wanted to put me on accutane, but a possible side effect is depression, so I said no. An antibiotic actually helped clear my skin.
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A dermatologist wanted to put me on accutane, but a possible side effect is depression, so I said no. An antibiotic actually helped clear my skin.
In my case, antibiotics don't help me at all. I once was prescribed doxycycline and I didn't get any better. In fact, it was a little annoying because I couldn't have dairy products and I couldn't lie down after taking the pill.

Accutane (isotretinoin) was my last resort and my lifesaver. I'll never forget how long the possible secondary effects list was. My skin and my lips became dry. When I blew my nose with a tissue, I used to have a nosebleed. I've never met someone who hasn't had one of those secondary effects. I was under treatment for 6 months and the dermatologist periodically checked up on me and insisted I should let him know as soon as possible if something unusual happened...

Just to stay on topic, I once had a throat infection and this doctor I talk about told me that sore throat syrups were useless, and that he wouldn't prescribe me any. I want to change doctors so much.

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