Chronic Illness
A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for people to spout their opinions on disability.
Rules
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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It's 100% gender roles bullshit.
Time to find a better doc. Make sure to verbosely note why you're leaving their practice, these shitstains only continue it because there's no consequences professionally.
Oh, no, this doc is the one that listened to me. It was the 3 before her that didn't.
She removed my endometriosis two years ago and told me she'd gladly do a hysterectomy if the pain came back. She emphasized that there was a 60-70% chance of the pain coming back. A hysterectomy is a pretty drastic surgery, so she couldn't medically justify it to the insurance at the time she removed the endometriosis. She can medically justify it now because my pelvic pain is back, indicating more endometriosis has appeared.
The other 3 doctors told me I'd change my mind about kids and to think of my future husband. I'm gay and kids deeply upset me. I don't need a uterus. In fact, my uterus is more trouble than anything else.