Women with chronic illnesses: how long & how many doctors did it take you to get diagnosed? I counted 11 months & 17 doctors & wrote down what each did to show what we go through just to begin to heal. 
Side note: the first person to accurately diagnose me was a psychic 😂 Second was my acupuncturist.
[Thread] Women, PoC, NB folks, & LGBTQ people w/ chronic illnesses are criticized for self-diagnosing, but the reason we self-diagnose is that those charged with diagnosing us are biased against us & don't understand issues that disproportionately affect us.
[4] We get called hypochondriacs when what we really are is empowered & determined to love & care for ourselves.
[5] We're deemed irrational for turning to alternative medicine, but conventional MDs rush us out, dismiss our concerns, and prescribe things that make us worse.
[6] This is a feminist issue. We are sick, suffering, & even dying because people still can't trust our knowledge of our own bodies.
Thanks @literElly for the writeup of this thread in @TeenVogue about the dismissal of women's pain & the legacy of the "hysteria" diagnosis. teenvogue.com/story/women-de…
In @hellogiggles, I explain how the view of women's bodies as inherently defective contributes to the normalization & trivialization of women's health problems. Thanks for writing this @nicolepomarico! hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/wome…
The same gender essentialists who wax poetic about “women’s intuition” suddenly doubt our intuitions about our own bodies when we’re trying to get medical treatment. Or when we’re making reproductive choices or reporting sexual misconduct, for that matter.
"As women, we're very in tune with our bodies. If something is not right, we immediately know. All we ask is that doctors and medical professionals take our knowledge of our own bodies seriously."-@touchinfinity in @heyrevelist: revelist.com/wellness/women… #womenshealth #trustwomen
Women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and other marginalized groups — what are the most awful things doctors have told you? I made a whole list. Share yours with the hashtag #MyDoctorSaid.
"If what a doctor tells you seems off, get another opinion. Then another. Especially if they’re telling you nothing’s wrong when you know there is — or if they’re telling you it’s anxiety or depression when you know there’s something more." themighty.com/2018/10/suzann… @TheMightySite
RT @abbymnorman: You want a real life #Halloween horror story? Read this thread — and share the awful things doctors have told you as a woman/queer person/POC/etc. with the hashtag #MyDoctorSaid. finance.yahoo.com/news/women-sha…
