W. If I’m sick again, I can take it now. Long. Too long. Because I hate to go to the doctor. My friends then get angry, name me unreasonable. But I’m not – I’m realistic. I learned early: the doct: I do not help inside.
I was twelve when I injured my leg while skating in a school trip to Harza. I tried to boldly work, tears still worked. “Do not drink!” My teacher scolded. The next day, he only took me to the village doctor. X -Ray is not even. A view of my swollen leg, he said: “You have nothing. Why are you so burying? “
The next day I had to go to the pool. When the lifeguard saw me, she insisted on sending me to the hospital. The result of the examination: three broken bones of the leg. To this day, I have a little pain and body.
Will the leg heal better if it had been transferred? I would believe that I would not become a girl? I am not alone with this experience when I visit a doctor. According to a survey of this year, 87 percent of women aged 16 to 30 years feel not perceived from the inside.
No treatment, months of pain
If we look for help with pain, we will continue in the same spirit: women wait longer in emergency departments, receive less often painkillers, get psychopharmaceutical drugs above the average with physical symptoms and, as a rule, is treated too late in case of cancer.
Last year, I struggled with an infection of the bladder for several months. I carefully prepared for the appointment of a family doctor. I investigated on the network and in my environment, read UMSCHAU pharmacies, I noticed all my questions to me. When I asked a family doctor about a suitable antibiotic and the necessary test, she rejected me with the words: “No need. Try it with tea. “
As a result, I had kidney pain for several months, nausea, following the next toilet. The time when I missed beer after working with friends. In which I had to stay in the home office for many days, with a bottle of hot water on my stomach. Camping trip: canceled.
Only the third doctor, before whom I escaped from loud exhaustion, passed the test that I asked and prescribed the correct antibiotic. Inflammation disappeared five days later. And again I ask myself: if I had the right treatment before, I would not have a “illness of women”?
Gender gap in health can cost female life
And even when doctors: inside our suffering, they often cannot help us. Many diseases typical of women are poorly studied, as well as the effect of drugs on our body. This is not a coincidence, but has a system in a world that does not perceive female pain seriously. Gender gap in health is called this phenomenon.
“The anesthetic sometimes does not look so reliable in women,” I hear my doctor today, while he pulls the tooth of wisdom from my jaw from pain. It is absurd, given that our bodies make up more than half of the world’s population.
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Experience to get sick for a long time and not have help in my environment. With my neighbor in the room: endometriosis. With my girlfriend: a tumor that was treated too late in my shoulder. If we were sick because we are women or not healed, because we are women: we are not 30, and we feel like a group of pensioners.
In the worst case, a gender gap in a state of health costs life in the United States, but in any case, our participation in health and social networks. And sometimes he deprives us of strength to continue to fight for what should be, of course: that our pain is taken seriously, and our diseases are finally investigated.
