55 Times Women Went To The Doctor And Ran Into Misogyny And Sexism Instead

Being told my headaches were caused by stress and denied an MRI for months - only to find out my brain was being pushed out the back of my skull and I needed emergency surgery.

Being in severe pain but having my family tell me to get.? over it because everyone has period pain and it wasn't worth taking me to the Dr over period pain. Went to the Dr once I became an adult. Took a few appoints but found out I have endometriosis. At least now I have what I need for managing it.

Being told I need to have children because I have a high pain tolerance when getting my teeth deep cleaned (??????) still don’t understand the concepts and how they aligned.

At hospital an hour after my waters broke and my contractions started. I was repeatedly told to stop making a fuss and told I was wasting time when women needed help. Left for another hour until my partner lost his temper. I was finally examined and I was fully dilated.

I don't know if that counts but when I was in my teens, my periods started being more and more painful. They hurt so bad I was literally sick and needed medicine to even keep food down because it hurt too much and made me way too nauseous.
My doctor, who has known me since I was a kid, always said that I was "listening to myself too much". My mom was told to get over it when she was a child (by her own parents) and so believed the doctor. But I still felt horrible while having them.
Fast forward but one day, my mom made me go to the doctor while I was having "a crisis" (sick, pale, looking not ok at all). He told her that she shouldn't have and finally saw that yeah, maybe it was not normal at all! After exams, yep, endometriosis. I'm taking the pill and couldn't be better.


Going to also add that I tried to change pills with a new gynecologist (a man) to completely stop my periods (I hate them, I don't know why but they genuinely make me feel mentally....like bleurgh. Just a general feeling of bleurgh. Can't describe it in a better way than I feel like a mop. So I prefer to stop them fully) He was half-nice, acting like he was bothered when he was late and when I couldn't answer some questions super precisely. (I'm 24, was 23 at the time, but genuinely bad with dates or precise information that I didn't note somewhere) When I said that I was diagnosed with endometriosis, he just said to me that "Yeah everyone is diagnosed with this now" and basically that "It hurts when you're on your period". New pill prescribed and guess what? I had the strongest pain since a while and period coming back even if I was supposed to skip them according to the pill. (2 times in a single month, can excuse one for adjusting but the second.....yeaaaah- Especially when the pain made me wake up at night two separate times because of how strong it was).
Went back on my old pill and still on it.

My mum was told she couldn't be depressed because she's a woman.

Being drained and tired was just because of my cycle and hormone fluctuations and refused prescription pain medication. Lol it was Lupus and RA

Heard of "husband stich" after giving birth, with the approval of the husband not the woman herself.

This one's less bad than some of the others that have been mentioned, but the last time I went to get my birth control prescription renewed, my regular doctor (a woman) was unavailable and her replacement/substitute was a young male doctor who only recently started working there.
When he was writing up the prescription, he started mansplaining to me in a pretty infantilizing tone how I should take the birth control, when I should take it, etc. I've been taking birth control for half a decade and this specific brand of birth control for like 3 years now.

Insurance covered half my procedure - called it “maternity” because it involved my reproductive organs. Men access full cover for their reproductive organs no questions, no limitations, nothing … under the same scheme

After childbirth, my feet were severely swollen. My gynae dismissed it as a side effect of the epidural. When I was discharged, I expressed concern about how swollen they were and was told to elevate my feet.
Seven days later, I was admitted to hospital in heart failure.

I had gotten my wisdom teeth removed and went to the dentist to check how they were healing. He told me to open my mouth and I did and he stood there for a minute and then goes “wow you can open your mouth wider than I can and I haven’t had surgery” with a weird smile. I told my mom how it made me uncomfortable after and she got mad at me because “it was nothing.”.

I had this weird thing happening where my chest was moving up and down uncontrollably from around my sternum. It was bad enough I couldn't talk properly. My mom took me to the ER and the doctor pulled my mother to the side and told her I was faking it for attention. No diagnosis

I was in grade 5.
The Optomitrist talked about how pretty I was, said that all the boys must be breaking down my door.
He went to his desk, got a quarter and put it in my tiny hand.
He said, “Call me when you’re 18.”
This was in front of my boomer mother who saw nothing wrong

When my mom was giving birth to me, the doctor left the hospital to have dinner with his family and my mom had to hold me in for multiple hours because the nurses weren’t allowed to conduct the birth. No other doctors were available either. It’s so ridiculous that a women was currently giving birth and he chose to leave 😐.