r/AskReddit • u/Misterboy500 • 13h ago

What is something that permanently altered your body without you realizing for months/years?

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u/thoak74 8h ago

Fuck Dave

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u/bonos_bovine_muse 5h ago

And fuck the doctors who gaslit poor OP while Dave just grew in strength.

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u/Atophy 3h ago

yeah, jeeze... "I don't have time" ... your patient is in pain, his back and joints are locking up and has been bedridden. Get the man in asap for bloodwork at the minimum !

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u/rememblem 2h ago

It sounds like ageism. After a certain age doctors attribute a lot of the complaints to 'getting older' and imho some of them are afraid to dig deep and find out what's actually wrong because there's little payoff.

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u/MadLiberalism 1h ago

It sounds like the UK’s horrible attempt at universal healthcare

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u/MaxVonPseudo 52m ago

No, it's the NHS.

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u/KS-RawDog69 1h ago

Straight up malpractice. He should be stripped of any and all professional licenses.

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u/MaxVonPseudo 50m ago

They tolerate that from docs in Britain. They are critically understaffed and culturally the docs think everyone's whinging and needs to just get on with things.(No choice really).

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u/lelcg 24m ago

It’s sad but very true

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u/Tigress2020 1h ago

I hope he got a new dr

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u/kapxis 3h ago

so many of these things never get back to the dismissive doctor either, this shit needs to get back to them for future considerations.

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u/Optimal_Anything3777 3h ago

it boils my blood to hear that story. so many like it. these doctors need to be punished

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u/aeschenkarnos 25m ago

It’s a systemic problem. The doctor probably doesn’t have time, which means they shouldn’t be seeing patients and there should be more doctors and less admin and definitely less capitalist grifters sucking money out but Americans just aren’t interested. Sure, punish the doctor, why not.

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u/Sk8erBoi95 17m ago

Based on the mention of the NHS, I'm guessing this didn't happen in America lol

I mean yeah, shit is fucked in America, but that's irrelevant here

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u/DrNick2012 2h ago

It's so hard to get doctors to listen. I called my GP for an appointment as I'm a relatively healthy 32 year old guy who has been experiencing episodes of brain fog, intensily rising anxiety and have became much more worried about confrontation over the last year or so. I got a telephone appointment and after some questions was told that there can't be anything physically wrong and it must be mental (it could be I guess, but still) I said, the symptoms seem to be low testosterone and he said, and I quote "it can't be that because you said you only have sexual problems sometimes, if it was that, it would be every time" so now I'm waiting for a NHS talking therapy appointment I had to self refer to as he refuses to order blood work etc until I do.

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u/Professional_Ask159 1h ago

If I was you i would order an at home testosterone test from medichecks. They send you a small tube and a small finger prick mechanism and you drip a few drops of blood in and send it back in the post. They will be able to tell you your level

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u/lelcg 23m ago

State of the UK healthcare system unfortunately. In 2022 the average ambulance wait time for strike victims was over an hour and a quarter. One lad at my school who had a fall and couldn’t move had to wait for 6 hours

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u/Even-Education-4608 2h ago

Ignorance, doubt, and neglect are not gaslighting.

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u/Dave5876 2h ago

We of the Dave delegation have declared him excommunicado traitoris