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Does anybody have gnawing stomach pain just above bellybutton?
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Most private clinics only take people with private healthinsurance. If you have that a whole world opens up but I can never get that since Im on disability for fibromyalgia since meny years. There are no neurologists that receive paying customers. You have to have a referral.
I could get some mris and things like a colonoscopy but not much else is offered. We have such a huge health crisis here in Sweden and such a shortage of doctors. The patient safety is threatened.
I've been 90 percent bedridden since December and if I have a condition that could have benefitted from for example steroid treatment it's too late now.
The pain and suffering people are subjected too is unbelievable! The only lucky ones are the standard heartattack or traffic accident kind of injuries which get treatment right away. Unusual diseases or cancer usually get diagnosed way too late.
Primary clinics have a range of standard bloodtests and if you pass those they usually don't want to go further.
Which is insane since 90 percent of early cancers and hundreds of other diseases do not show up on standard blood panels.
I think a lot of countries are struggling now though. I hear stories from US, Australia, Canada and lots of countries about the struggle people have to get medical care. In the US it comes down to what healthinsurance you have.
BUT one important factor that is mostly overlooked is gender and employment.
If you are a man with employment here you will get better help. If you are a woman you tend not to be believed and if you are a retired woman they can bury you in waiting time because the doctors dont have to sign off on sickleave and they don't have to explain to an employer why you're absent for 6 months waiting for a bunch of tests.
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@tinatoren - what you’ve said here is exactly the situation in Canada too:
“ BUT one important factor that is mostly overlooked is gender and employment.
If you are a man with employment here you will get better help. If you are a woman you tend not to be believed and if you are a retired woman they can bury you in waiting time because the doctors dont have to sign off on sickleave and they don't have to explain to an employer why you're absent for 6 months waiting for a bunch of tests.”
My husband merely has to mention something and gets immediate attention and he is given the necessary tests and procedures. I, on the other had, get waved away.
About 18 months ago we were in a car accident. The ambulance driver “strongly advised” that my husband be taken to the hospital. I had a cut on my head which they cleaned up in the ambulance and told me it was not necessary for me to go to the hospital. I knew if I had insisted on going I would get no more treatment anyway. My husband, on the other hand was taken to the hospital, given a thorough body exam including X-rays and CT scan, and they found something that would have gone unnoticed otherwise, because he never had any symptoms. I am relieved, of course, that they found a possible problem in him that we could take care of before it got worse but the fact still remains that I was not taken as seriously simply because I was a woman. We were both in the same car accident, both riding in the front and had the same impact with the car ahead of us. He had no visible injuries but I had a cut on top of my head that was bleeding. Strangely enough, when I mentioned the accident to my physician and asked if I should get a CT scan of my head, she just glanced at my cut (which was scabbed over by then) and said it was not necessary. 🤷🏼♀️