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There can be a 1-20 year timeframe between seeking treatment and getting a diagnosis and starting medication for autoimmune. Doctors constantly gas light people until it has progressed to late stages. These are people that should 100% work on diet as a solution until they can get proper diagnosis and start treatment. Instead I see the reverse. People scarfing on crap American diet. Trying drug after drug with mixed r…
Doctors gaslight people out of getting adequate care? What have people done to you? What country do you live in?
It took over six months and five visits to two different doctors to get a referral to an orthopedicist. Turned out my cubital tunnel had collapsed on my ulnar nerve, crushing it. The surgeon said that I shouldn't have waited so long to see him, because the damage was so severe. Yeah, well, I tried. Insurance doesn't cover specialists without a referral from a generalist, and I am at their mercy.
It's been over five years now since that surgery, and I still deal with nerve pain and weakness in that arm. Nobody cares. Oh well.