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There can be a 1-20 year timeframe between seeking treatment and getting a diagnosis and starting medication for autoimmune. Doctors constantly gas light peopl

There can be a 1-20 year timeframe between seeking treatment and getting a diagnosis and starting medication for autoimmune. Doctors constantly gas light people until it has progressed to late stages. These are people that should 100% work on diet as a solution until they can get proper diagnosis and start treatment. Instead I see the reverse. People scarfing on crap American diet. Trying drug after drug with mixed results. Some it’s enough. Others not. These are people that need to change their diet regardless of medication or not. Then there are people like my sister who clearly has the same condition as everyone in family. Refuses to seek treatment. But got an early start on healthy eating and does better then anyone else. She really needs some tests, and probably does need some medication. But is mostly fine. Something like cancer. Screw everything I just said and take the pills.

epgui 5y ago
Doctors gaslight people out of getting adequate care? What have people done to you? What country do you live in?
- groovy2shoes 5y ago
  I, for one, live in the US and have absolutely been gaslit by multiple physicians. They are reluctant to order tests, to refer to specialists, and to try medications. They are not reluctant in the least to assume that any and all problems are in my head. Maybe they are. But it's an undemonstrated assumption they make because they see MDD on my chart. They're skeptical that anything is actually wrong. It took over six months and five visits to two different doctors to get a referral to an orthopedicist. Turned out my cubital tunnel had collapsed on my ulnar nerve, crushing it. The surgeon said that I shouldn't have waited so long to see him, because the damage was so severe. Yeah, well, I tried. Insurance doesn't cover specialists without a referral from a generalist, and I am at their mercy. It's been over five years now since that surgery, and I still deal with nerve pain and weakness in that arm. Nobody cares. Oh well.

epgui 5y ago

Doctors gaslight people out of getting adequate care? What have people done to you? What country do you live in?

groovy2shoes 5y ago
I, for one, live in the US and have absolutely been gaslit by multiple physicians. They are reluctant to order tests, to refer to specialists, and to try medications. They are not reluctant in the least to assume that any and all problems are in my head. Maybe they are. But it's an undemonstrated assumption they make because they see MDD on my chart. They're skeptical that anything is actually wrong. It took over six months and five visits to two different doctors to get a referral to an orthopedicist. Turned out my cubital tunnel had collapsed on my ulnar nerve, crushing it. The surgeon said that I shouldn't have waited so long to see him, because the damage was so severe. Yeah, well, I tried. Insurance doesn't cover specialists without a referral from a generalist, and I am at their mercy. It's been over five years now since that surgery, and I still deal with nerve pain and weakness in that arm. Nobody cares. Oh well.