Women's symptoms ignored by GPs - campaigners

"From the moment I went to my GP about my symptoms in my late teens, I have always felt dismissed," said Jessica Ricketts, 35.

But the feeling of being fobbed off has cropped up in countless conversations with women whether it be in relation to a heart attack, UTI, stroke, autism or even brain tumour. The Welsh government's quality statement on women and girls' health acknowledges, "women's gendered reporting of lived experience and symptoms can be undervalued, overlooked or dismissed".Health data to be broken down by protected characteristics because "the stories of women with those backgrounds goes untold"Image caption,

She's since been diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, endometriosis, and a rare type of migraine made worse by the contraceptive pill she'd been prescribed. From that point on she suffered "really serious symptoms and a lot of blood loss" with regular haemorrhages for the next two years, leaving her anaemic."I would need to keep an extra pair of clothes in work, in case I had the haemorrhage in work," said the 35-year-old from Barry, in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

I'm so glad that us chaps are never affected by GP/NHS failures. We're such lucky bastards.

I'm 63 and basically since the age of 55 everything I have seen the doctor about I've been told 'It's your age' 'Yeah, old people get that' 'Is to be expected at your age', so now I just don't bother 🤷‍♀️

GPs ignore EVERYONE!

Probably because the NHS can't use the term ’woman’ in its literature so things get overlooked maybe?

Ah the comment section on a womens health article, exactly what I expected 🙄

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