“I got my period at eight years old.
Unfortunately, people had many stories to tell, ranging from unbelievable to horrific to disturbing.
Like, these doctors should have their licenses revoked (I’m not exaggerating, folks).
Note: Some submissions include topics of eating disorders, suicide, and mental illness.
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Her abdomen was visibly swollen and firm like she was pregnant.
She couldn’t button her jeans anymore.
The doctor didn’t even touch her they just told her that ‘every woman hates having her period.
Take an iron supplement and five or six advil for the pain.’
She got a second opinion from another doctor, who immediately sent her to radiology.
She had a grapefruit-sized fibroid tumor in her uterus and had to get a hysterectomy at 35.”
u/ca77ywumpus
2.
I was barely 19, and only had one sexual partner at the time.
Before 19, I had never had sex before.
This was my second OBGYN visit and I was lost and terrified.
u/puffcake33
3.
I told her that my sweet husband didn’t give a hoot, but it was really botheringme.
So, I’d say let’s just leave it.'
I never went back I also never paid the bill for that appointment.
u/Opening-End-7346
4.
“I switched doctors when COVID happened.
I told the new doctor about my torn Achilles, and he flat-out told me I was lying.
I went back to him a couple more times due to a lack of doctors and any issues.
He made me feel like I was lying.”
I just walked out of his office."
u/TecN9ne
5.
“I tried to talk about the consistently awful and painful gastrointestinal problems I was having.
My doctor held her finger in my face and said, ‘anxiety’ and refused any further action.
Then she told me to lose weight because I was getting ‘fat.’
We should ensure nothing else is going on.'
She did some tests, referred me to a gastroenterologist, and I was diagnosed with IBS.
I was put on appropriate medication, and my quality of life dramatically improved.
u/SarahTheJuneBug
6.
The doctor on call sent out his assistant to talk to me.
She told me to go for a walk next time instead of wasting hospital resources.
I get that exercise is good for your mental health, but come on.
u/orch4rd
7.
“They said, ‘I’m happy to see you lost weight.
Just check that you keep it off…you want boys to be attracted to you, right?’
I was a 16-year-old girl with a boyfriend in the lobby.
We had been together since before I lost weight (not that it mattered).”
u/cosmiceggroll
8.
“When I was 21, I dislocated my shoulder, and it continued to hurt for weeks.
I went to a specialist, and he suggested the pain was all in my head.
So, I said, ‘Looks like it’s not all in my head.’
He looked at me with such contempt I never went back to that asshole.”
u/francogarcia
9.
“At eight years old, I got my period.
Obviously concerned about how young I was, my mom took me to the doctor.
u/darkerthanmysoul
10.
The doctor looked at my MRI scans and said there was nothing.
‘Women’s knees sometimes hurt without a reason.
It even has a name, called ‘the knee pain of the young women.’
A year later, it got worse.
u/Nyardyn
11.
“This happened to my mother.
She was seeing the doctor about getting her tubes tied after giving birth to her third and final child.
You won’t be able to have another.’
BECAUSE DEAD CHILDREN ARE JUST REPLACEABLE LIKE THAT, I GUESS?
u/NonConformistFlmingo
12.
My doctor thought my husband had hit me.
After the x-ray, he realized I was correct.
Then he had other medical staff look at what he said was their ‘freak of the week.'”
u/v13
13.
“‘People don’t get depressed at 13 it’s just her period.’
Surprise: It was depression.”
u/Unlucky-Pizza-7049
14.
“In middle school, I was seeing a psychiatrist for generalized anxiety and a panic disorder.
I started taking antidepressants, and I gained weight once my anxiety started improving.
One day, my psychiatrist brought me over to a scale so he could weigh me.
I broke out in tears as soon as he said that because it crushed me.
My mom yelled at him, we walked out of his office, and never came back.”
u/h_amphibius
15.
There’s nothing wrong with you.’
I broke down crying.
He told me I was being overly emotional and stressing myself out over nothing.
u/Fair-Platform-9314
16.
But, Iamgoing to talk to you about thattattooon your arm.'
He gave me all of this outdated information they used to scare people with in the ’80s and ’90s.
I was 31, and he was talking down to me like I was a kid.”
I’d recently had issues with my stomach and was under a gastroenterologist’s care.
When he asked about my past intestinal problems, I told him what the old doctor told me.
You’re very lucky it was diverticulitis.'”
u/FourColorOffset
17.
Needless to say, I reported him and never saw him again."
u/2SadAllTheTime
18.
“A doctor told me, ‘Welp, looks like you’re probably going to go blind!’
Corneal transplants are 99% effective you’ll be fine.'
u/SchaefSex
19.
If it was serious, youd be dead by now.'
We later found out that my husbands uncle saw this same doctor before he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
u/Mellopiex
20.
I felt so much better after I got my infusions.”
u/NotAsPlanned-
21. u/in-site
22.
So to get to get that medicine, I needed to be on birth control.
My doctor asked me if I was a virgin, which I confirmed.
“I remember crying and not understanding what happened.
He confirmed that I was indeed a virgin and prescribed birth control.
He pat me on my back as I left and called me a good girl.
I still hate him with the burning intensity of a thousand desert suns.
Several years later, I learned that he did not have to do that so that prescribe birth control.
I said I didnt have a husband.
Then he asked for my boyfriends name, and I said I didnt have one.
‘Wow, you just go through a lot of batteries,’ the doctor said.
Ive had doctors say really shitty things to me, and I would say this is shocking.”
u/plainbagel11
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