This is so ridiculous, but it's one of many.

Me at 15: my periods are weird

Dr: that’s normal

Me at 21: my periods are weird

Dr: normal

Me at 26: I’m exhausted and my periods last months

Dr: you’re anemic and it’ll stabilize

Me at 29: just do an ultrasound please

;Dr: fine

One surgery that halved the size of my uterus because of growths and I finally have the most normal periods of my life. Imagine if they listened to me at first….

It's very true. Medicine is extremely sexist. I think this is one of the places where feminism is most direly needed because women die everyday due to not being taken seriously about their health issues.

There is no medical procedure for which a man would be denied based on his marital or virginity status. Transvaginal ultrasounds on the other hand…

I had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at 27 weeks gestation (after delivery of course). It was an 8 hour outpatient procedure. They sent me home without pain medication. The surgeon told me, “studies have shown women can handle mastectomy pain with Tylenol and ibuprofen.”

Months later I’m looking through my chart. Turns out the surgeon put 480ccs in my expanders after he put them it. They’re supposed to get about 100cc. So not only was it his fault I was in so much pain, but then he made me feel like a drug seeker when I asked for narcotics.

My husband got Percocet 10s for his 5 minute vasectomy….

I knew a bunch of gymnasts who would go in to the doctor's for spinal fractures / broken bones and it would always go like this:

• I have a broken bone
• No you don't, you would be writhing in pain if you did
• repeat until a Dr. agrees to an x-ray
• "holy shit you have a broken bone"

I was told by a surgeon I had to somehow be causing my own lung collapses because the normal patient profile is tall young male and I was an average height woman nearing my 30s when it all started.

Years later we find out my one lung is deformed and I had to have been born with it like that. It's why it's prone to tearing. It's the hardware not the software that's the problem.

I almost died because that first surgeon just refused to believe a nearly middle aged woman could have recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax (lung collapse). F you Dr. Evans. I hope my case haunted you.

Yeah, fuck that treatment.

As a guy from the Midwest, I hate how common this kind of deferment is. I knew girls in high school that had medical issues similar to this, and weren't allowed treatment until they were in their mid-20s because of like-minded doctors. Make it make sense.

Conversely, as a track athlete, I had surgery and therapy at 17 because I tore a tendon in my ankle. It wasn't even painful to walk, but it impacted my ability to perform at a sports based level. I wasn't even close to being a D1 athlete, but was still treated as such as a male.

same, absolutely fucking same. i had to be all serious and bitchy so i could get coc instead of progesterone to keep my endometriosis in check because progesterone instantly brought back my depressive episodes after 2 years of being mdd free.

That’s fucked up.

Women are less likely to be believed and taken seriously by doctors. But this is more than that. This is treating women's bodies like they don't belong to them. We still have this attitude, that a woman's body in some way belongs to her husband and her children, even if they don't exist yet. This is why some men have an entitled attitude towards women's bodies. We're in the 21st century and we still can't seem to get past this. My body belongs to me and your body belongs to you and that should be the end of the discussion.