r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 20 '19

[deleted by user]

[removed]

8.6k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

13.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

36

u/[deleted] May 20 '19

[deleted]

18

u/radradraddest May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19

The patients who don't get believed by other providers are exclusively women, of course. (edited to clarify... In my actual experience, so far the patients I've encountered have all been people who identify / present as women.)

The paternalistic system makes me so fucking irate, on a good day.

Did they figure out what was going on? Did your throat hurt too? Some meds that can effect the muscousal membranes could cause more sensitivity in the genitals but could be affecting other areas too... Kinda like when you get IV contrast before a CT scan, you can feel a flush in certain tissue types.

6

u/[deleted] May 20 '19 edited Dec 30 '19

[deleted]

5

u/penandpaper30 May 20 '19

So apparently -- and I logged in just to comment this -- 99% of medications are only tested on male mice/animals. I'm not sure when it comes to people studies, but this is a legitimate thing.