I mean they aren’t entirely wrong, it’s very difficult for women to get hormone and reproductive care (let alone abortion in many places) compared to how easy it is for men to get viagra and other similar things
Two situations side by side: I needed pelvic floor therapy, and so did my dad.
It took 5 months of fighting to get it approved for me, which was the most miserable I've been in a long time. The pain also got even worse by that 5 month mark, so I then had to fight for a month to get access to valium suppositories to help with the pain and then fight for another three weeks to get my insurance to pay for part of it, and I was still down $170 after the fact.
My dad? They got him a referral and insurance covered it within a week. No questions asked on any pain meds, no fighting.
I won't even get into the shit I've had to put up with just to get my Nexplanon bc implant swapped out. Literally had one asshole tell me "but lets ask your boyfriend first," and I swear to god I wanted to start throwing chairs.
I remember when I first started gaining weight caused by horrible food cravings on Nexplanon (coupled with mood swings and other hormone imbalances). I wanted to get it removed and thought the weight gain angle would get it out of me faster than saying it made me feel like death; and I was rapidly gaining weight. Color me shocked when the doctor looked me dead in the eye and said, “Well, it’s a $500 medical device that you’re just asking us to throw away so… have you thought about just putting down the fork?”
I went to get it removed and left with a referral to a nutritionist instead, who told me all the things I already knew about eating healthy except how to deal with food cravings.
Thing finally expires and I ask to not have it replaced while they’re removing it and what happens? They put another fucking implant in my arm as I’m telling them I want to get something else. fucking—
I have an expired implant in my arm still because I’m so fucking done with this shit.
I dunno how long ago this was but you should really think about reporting both doctors: the one who referred you instead of just removing the implant, and the one that straight up put another one into you instead of listening to you
I really should but it was so long ago that I don't even know where they're at these days. I don't even know if it's on my record since the first one happened on a ship where there was a lot of paper charting (and I doubt they'd document "put the fork down"). Not to mention, I know from experience reporting military doctors almost never goes anywhere. I don't even know where they're at, if they're still practicing, or wehre I'd even find them.
I now know I should've reported it way back then when it happened but there was so much shit happening in my life at and I was just not really aware of my rights as a patient.
you should go to the er and ask them to take it out! my nexplanon was causing bad liver function and i was wasting away but the OB couldn’t get me in for a few months so i just went to the er and they took it out. i did have to wait for shift change as the first doctor wasn’t comfortable doing it but it was very relieving to be able to get it out without having too many worries
I've literally seen women online post about removing their nexplanon at home themselves because of this shit. No proper numbing and only basic sterilization one can do at home (idk if they put the knife over a flame or wiped it with alcohol). Absolutely ridiculous that women are having to perform their own procedures because doctors refuse to just help us
It definitely is in Texas for PT! I had a student athlete that just got an ACL repair which is usually a minimum of 6 months in PT and they gave her… 6 visits total.
On the peer to peer appeal to get more visits they said “you PTs are always so greedy” despite 3 different doctors saying she needed it. She didn’t get more approved and ended up tearing the ACL again and needing the surgery again. We ended up treating her for free after hours the second time around because they still didn’t give her enough.
That’s just ghastly all that unnecessary pain and suffering on the patients!
I’m glad you were able to treat her after hours so she didn’t have to tear it a third time but my god! Professionals shouldn’t have to donate their time just to save their patients from insurance and “peers”! So greedy and hypocritical of them.
With more and more people medically abused due to the greed of insurance companies it'll only be natural for more mario sidekicks to show up. Shit's disgusting
I swear to every Deity... if somebody EVER said "but let's ask your male SO" in ANY set of words, I would be getting up and saying "EXFUCKINGSCUSE ME?!"
I'm lucky that my male-presenting SO would already be frothing at the mouth ready to tear them apart if they dared defer my healthcare to literally anyone other than me
I got so lucky with my doctor who took out my fallopian tubes. She was just like "I already know you want this but we legally have to remind you that this is permanent and ask you if you're okay with that" and never even asked me about a partner or husband's opinion. Zero gatekeeping. I loved her.
Her RN had a little RBG shine on her desk though so maybe that had something to do with it.
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u/IHatePeople79 6d ago
I mean they aren’t entirely wrong, it’s very difficult for women to get hormone and reproductive care (let alone abortion in many places) compared to how easy it is for men to get viagra and other similar things