The article explores the experiences shared by women on Reddit regarding their healthcare struggles, emphasizing high-profile issues like dismissal of patient autonomy and serious medical misdiagnoses. Many respondents shared stories of feeling marginalized, especially when seeking reproductive health services, such as tubal ligation, despite their clear intentions. Others recounted years of suffering due to misdiagnosed conditions, including significant pain attributed to gastrointestinal issues that later turned out to be kidney stones, highlighting systemic failures in adequately addressing women's health concerns and the impact of these experiences.
I was finally able to get it done when I was 37. While I was being prepped for my surgery, a nurse started talking to me. She asked me how many kids my husband and I already have. I told her none. Then the nurse said, 'If you have no kids, what does your husband think of the surgery?!' I told her if he wanted kids, he wouldn't be my husband, as I was very selective in choosing a partner who also didn't want children and would support the choices I made for my body.
I spent the majority of my life believing I had a GI issue because the doctors told me that's what was causing the pain in my left side. Then the pain got worse, more frequent, and more painful. I was on the verge of sepsis once, hospitalized for 36 hours. It was a bright white, egg-shaped mass with a bean-shaped shadow squished around it. I thought it was cancer, but it was a kidney stone.
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