Someone wrote in [personal profile] kaberett 2015-09-03 02:16 am (UTC)

Self diagnosis is sadly vital, medicine has moves so much in the past 50 years or so that doctors are more inclined to treat even if incorrectly rather than have no treatment for whatever the problem is, there was a point in time when knowing it was endometriosis didn't change anything because there was nothing better than usual help. What seems to get forgotten is that without diagnosis then there never will be treatment. I don't know any history of endometriosis, but it must have taken someone or some group noticing a bunch of women had something that was worse and correlated with other stuff.

An online acquaintence was once sent home from the emergency room with an ectopic pregnancy, it was very early, but with the info she gave I was able to determine that it had not been excluded when the hospital said it had, that probably saved her life and her tube.

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