“Sausage Fingers”: 40 Symptoms People Realized Weren’t Just Weird Quirks

The professional gaslighting of women by doctors (female as well as male) is a disgrace.

I know a woman who was FINALLY diagnosed after ten years and 4 ob/gyn. Same stage. The last doctor thought of polykystic ovarian syndrome and understood it was a hugely extended endometriosis only while doing the surgery. He wasn't qualified, though, and he addressed her to a famous surgeon that treated the worst abdominal cancers in a university hospital. The surgery lasted 7 hours. A part of her gut was removed. The Professor managed to recreate one Fallope trump and she had 2 children, which is really a miracle. Now she's 40ish and needs to take drugs to pause her hormones. This disease sucks an so do many doctors.

My mom had endometrial cancer, for at least several years, and she was constantly misdiagnosed. She ended up having a hysterectomy, and did chemo and a couple of rounds of radiation to make sure they got it all, and she's ok now, but the hell that she had to go through to get a diagnosis was insane.

And now imagine that 1 in 10 women suffer from endometriosis. I am one of them. I found out I had it after I suddenly started to bleed from my belly button. Over the course of 3 months, it became worse and I had a stabbing pain in my navel. I went to the hospital. 5 doctors looked at me, 3 of them surgeons, and they didn't have a clue what was going on. After a sonography and MRI, they still didn't know. They just wanted to remove my belly button cause "no matter what it is, it should fix the problem". I am SO glad, that I decided not to get that surgery. After 2 more months, I noticed a pattern because my symptomps got worse a certain time of the month. So I went to my gynecologist who sent me to an endometriosis specialist. I got my diagnosis 4 months later because it tooks that long to get the appointment. I am fine since I have proper medication. But 2 of my best friends suffer from stage 4 and it's not pretty....

“There’s a wide range of normal”, yes but this isn’t normal for me!

I think it's awful that you were medicated for hallucinations. That had to be so hard when it wasn't even the problem. I'm so sorry you were misdiagnosed and had to go through that.

Well that’s disturbing. I never considered the noises being muffled by my skull.

This was on an episode of Greys Anatomy

I (45F) have psoriatic arthritis. One of my earlier doctors didn't realize that some patients don't have obviously abnormal lab results. So her solution was to tell me that it was all in my head and a result of my depression/PTSD/emotional isolation. I looked at her and said, "How the f**k did I mentally cause my knees and ankles to break down and my hands to swell like sausages?" We had scans of my knees, ankles, and hips all showing significant arthritis, and this daffy broad thought I was just hurting because of my mood disorders. Yes, mood disorders can make pain worse, but they don't typically break down tissue...

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1. Hurting your child is never, EVER the way to teach them and anyone that thinks it is can go f**k themselves. 2. Of course she didn't apologize until 15 years later. Too prideful to admit when they're wrong.

almost the same here without the spanking and with 20% hearing left. I was judged by my teachers,that always thought, I would making purposely fun of them. Got an A in each written vocabulary test but left a blank space on every test behind the chalkboard or dictated. My hearing was tested bad as a child before throat surgery but they missed to test it again afterwards. As soon as I became 18 I put myself to hearingtest and conditioned to a silenced world all these years I'm still struggle with the way to hear with hearingaids..

Well I'm sorry. You shouldn't have had to go through that.

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My poor brother struggled terribly in school. When he was in second grade, he came home with swollen knuckles, given to him by a nun, for not being able to grasp his reading lessons. By then, my mum had started to suspect a learning disability, but our biological father refused to let him be tested. The swollen knuckles sent her over the edge, so she snuck him to a learning specialist who diagnosed dyslexia. He was given special lessons and before long, he was able to read. Today, he's an avid reader and a high school history and social studies teacher. Mum carried the guilt of letting our father bully her out of seeking help, for the rest of her life.

When my daughter was almost three, we were having her evaluated because she was having fine-motor control issues, skin sensitivity issues, and problems with her balance. The ADD was diagnosed at age 5, the Aspergers was diagnosed at age 10-11 (would have been sooner but our insurance approvals took a while). The balance issues? The home evaluator asked if we'd had her eyes checked and I hit my forehead. It hadn't occured to us to have her eyes checked yet. Turned out she definitely needed glasses. At least one of her problems was easily fixed. 23 years later, we're still working on the others (she's a work in progress).

ice cream with mom after being told something bad instantly makes stuff feel better, I a few years ago I got cancer, and as we got in the car, my mom turned to me and said "lets get icecream" I just nodded, and she tells me of this "alien ice cream please" it was alien themed and out of our way but she drove us to it let me get a huge bowl and we just sat and watched the trolley go down the street, I was just 34 (good ending kinda, Im cured of my cancer now, but my mom passed away may 22 2023}

At least your mom took you to the doctor... some parents would have refused, not wanting to be proven wrong.

Somewhat the same, except doctor said there was nothing wrong with me when my mother asked about my feet. Never stopped having trouble to walk, got increasingly less and less mobility, can no longer stand to shower. Now as an almost 24yo I was diagnosed with muscular autoimmune disease, still under investigation to exactly which one, spending money my parents don't have in examinations.

I would have preferred the "I'm sorry", rather than the ice cream.

I was also born with severe fallen arches on both feet. I ended up having to get surgery recently in my early 30s to fix my right arch that completely collapsed and caused a tear in my tibial tendon. The surgery was so worth it for anyone considering it.

Please everyone be aware of the signs. - kid drinks A LOT - kid start peeing in bed again. Not little accident: flipping buckets of pee. (Think several diapers a night and they leak) - kid loses weight suddenly and FAST - kid looks tired and warm Your kid is in ketoacidosis. His pancreas has stopped working and glucose (the food of the cells) is stuck in the blood, unable to get inside cells. Kid is starving AND poisoned by this hight level of blood sugar. Get to the ER immediately. You might have hours before your kids get in a coma. Diabetes type 1 has nothing to do with eating too much sweets: it's an auto-immune disease and it will kill your child 100% of the time if untreated.

Your breath will smell like Juicy Fruit Gum when you are in diabetic ketosis.

This is a big warning sign for diabetes!!! Do not ignore it! You sound like a loving parent; I'm sorry the education and support wasn't available.

Was there any reason you would have thought of diabetes? Family history or some such? Did you know of ketosis? Don’t beat yourself up. I hope she’s doing okay (I’m T2, well controlled). But I recently had to deal with misplaced guilt that my roommate was feeling. He’s more of a son to me, same age as my blood son. We left the apartment and he trotted down the stairs as usual, to go smoke without my breathing it. Just like normal. I, however (60f), felll on the landing due to a rotten step, shattering and dislocating my ankle. He was all about how he shouldn’t have just gone downstairs, he should’ve stayed right in front of me so he could catch me, etc. I had to work to get him to understand that this was our normal. He’s younger and faster. There was nothing realistically that he could have done. If he’d tried, we could both have gone through the landing as he is much larger. Don’t guilt yourself. You got her helped, he called 911. No guilt.

My uncle had type 1 before he passed away. I am very adamant about getting my toddler checked, and checked for other auto immune diseases (runs in the family)

What strikes me is that both mum and sister didn't take OP seriously either. You would expect a female to sympathise with another female when it comes to these complaints. Instead, women have made men's distaste for the working of a woman's body their own. Very sad.

I had cancer because of and undiagnosed endometriosi and Lost the possibility to have children.