this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2024
10 points (91.7% liked)

Chronic Illness

220 readers
1 users here now

A community for chronically ill people.

Rules

  1. Be excellent to each other
  2. Absolutely no ableism, although good faith questions that take an ableist stance will be left up pending moderator discretion.
  3. No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
mecfs@lemmy.world
graphito@sopuli.xyz
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
10
That feeling when you've read up more on your chronic illness than your GP has (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by mecfs@lemmy.world to c/chronicillness@lemmy.world
20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

People don’t usually have the same doctor for their whole life. So no matter how long you have been living with an illness, you do find yourself seeing people you have never met before and sometimes having weird experiences just through probability. No one is “symptom shopping” here, we’re just describing a common experience, which is that it’s a bit jarring when you have a health problem and the doctor you go to see for it doesn’t know how to help you with it.