Thank you for your submission wrenchesabound!
THIS is why I ended up in the hospital. I went to multiple doctors in different places. It wasn’t just the college health center. It was everywhere. No one listened to me. No, I wasn’t faking my diet or how much I exercised. Something was legitimately wrong. And when I finally ended up in the hospital after years of being ignored the first question they asked was “what does your doctor think?”. This isn’t so much funny as it is pathetic and sad. Last year when I was referred to a place where they specialized in helping people with metabolic problems lose weight they said that most people with my problems in my age group go through the same thing and that it’s just the way it is. That’s not good enough! Just because I’m young doesn’t mean that I can’t have Hashimoto’s disease because, now we all know, I do! She just wanted me to accept that the years of being ignored and all the emotional pain was par for the course for someone like me. I shouldn’t have to be okay with it. Those years were hell. While I’m doing better now, it took me a long time to get here. I expect respect and professionalism from my doctors. I expect them to listen and believe me. Why is that too much to ask?
