Droggelbecher

For better or worse, if you weren't fat they wouldn't diagnose you properly either. I've been diagnosed with:

•Too skinny (this is particularly funny bc the complaint was fainting and both the low weight and fainting are from hyperthyroidism as I now know)

•Too tall

•'this is normal for young women' (if it were they'd all be unable to work traditional job)

•Psychosomatic ailment (depression on my medical record is the bane ofy existence)

•Just unlucky

•'this must be an unknown symptom of your existing illness'

•Lacking exercise (I do 2 hour long swims a week and walk 3-5k every weekday)

•Probably lying about the amount I drink (both water and alcohol)

I've often been told I'm too nOrMaL to be autistic but never that I don't look autistic. Have you all been told the latter? I see so many memes about that.

Tangential, but I'm working with some code that started out in the punch card era (I'm doing particle physics, it's in fortran)

To be fair, even before LLMs tech knowledge among the young was on the decline. You don't have to know tech anymore yo use it. Everything is super easy to use with an intuitive GUI and zero need to look behind it.

An der Kassa: oooooh, die person legt tofu, pflanzliche milch und pflanzliche butter auf :))))

....und dann noch eine packung billigsalami :((((

Honestly, it sounds like you want to be one of the good ones. Piece of advice, you were a bit dismissive with me. I said I had a bad experience that was common (among the chronically ill) and you told me you 'just get a different doctor'. As the experience is common, like I said, it genuinely isn't that easy. Most of us have tried many doctors and had an experience like this on some way with every one. So, I guess, the advice is, listen to patients who are disillusioned with the medical system and believe them when they share their experience. You seem to be super genuine and to have just had a small blind spot, so please don't take this the wrong way, I'm telling you this because I think you really want to do right by us and I think this could help.

I use snuff personally. I've never felt the nicotine from a cigarette and always hated how they make your mouth taste, so I've never been tempted, even when I kept tobacco, papers and filters on hand. When I run out I often can't be arsed to get a new can for a few days or weeks.

I'm on proper ADHD meds these days, which beats any self medication. Still nice to have a lil extra.

All of this makes it more confusing, not less

You ever get the jitters and nail biting but at the same time the caffeine has made you suuuper sleepy so you go take a nap?

This is not medical advice, but smokeless nicotine has worked far better for me.

I kind of am judging. Misrepresenting how science works and what it can and can't do ia a dangerous game on the age of intentional misinformation. Even if you're just trying to be cute and fun.

That behavior was pretty par for the course among all the doctors I've visited. A little more blatant than usual maybe, but the sentiment was one I'm used to. I stuck with him because he was the first ever GP out of the many I've tried to not dismiss symptoms I was describing.

See it's perfectly understandable to not know every single little detail about the field you're trained in. What sucks is how rarely a doctor will admit they're out of their depth and need to read up on your symptoms or disease. From what I gather, this doesn't seem to just be my experience, but a rather common one. Whenever I see this post, I think about the following encounter.

Me: I have autoimmune hyperthyroidism, so, graves disease Doc: nope, graves disease is autoimmune hypOthyroidism, autoimmune hypERthyroidism is hashimotos

Like. These are so understandable to get mixed up when you're a GP. You've probably heard about each of these for like 10 minutes in uni and then studied about them for one test and forgot about them until they were relevant again. I get it, I've been the same about stuff I've learned in uni. Education isn't purely about retaining facts, and it's not humanly possible to retain every single fact you've ever learned.

What doesn't make sense is that I, who has the disease, is often quite debilitated by it, sees a specialist for it every month, and has to understand which symptoms are related to it and why (the thyroid does so many things, it's pretty complex) so I can report them to the specialist would confuse the disease with the opposite one.

So why tf do you default to me being wrong without a seconds thought or doing a 3sec web search? Think for ONE SECOND and you'll realise it doesn't make sense that I'm confusing the disease with another one that I do not have. Ugh.