I remember thinking this must be what women feel like while being trivialized at the doctors office or the workplace or anywhere else for that matter. I actually had a neurologist tell me "well you have all of the symptoms of CFS but that's mostly a woman's disease." Who knows what this knuckle head was thinking. As a man in this situation I'm probably more conditioned to deal with this the same as I would an incompetent auto mechanic or plumber, just take my business elsewhere. About a year later a very competent rheumatologist diagnosed my CFS and my severe osteoporosis. As a 50 year old man with years of weight training, running etc. the brittle bones were a surprise to me. I'm grateful this Dr did not overlook this as I was at extreme risk of a fracture at the time. After all osteoporosis is "mostly a woman's disease." So I take that pill once a week just like the little old ladies in the commercial and I take my business to that very competent doctor. I do wonder though how often people go undiagnosed just because of a doctor that is below average like the three others that overlooked my osteoporosis after seeing the same x-rays. I guess my point is there's probably as many men walking around with undiagnosed osteoporosis as women with undiagnosed heart disease and a lot of both with undiagnosed CFS.
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I remember thinking this must be what women feel like while being trivialized at the doctors office or the workplace or anywhere else for that matter. I actually had a neurologist tell me "well you have all of the symptoms of CFS but that's mostly a woman's disease." Who knows what this knuckle head was thinking. As a man in this situation I'm probably more conditioned to deal with this the same as I would an incompetent auto mechanic or plumber, just take my business elsewhere. About a year later a very competent rheumatologist diagnosed my CFS and my severe osteoporosis. As a 50 year old man with years of weight training, running etc. the brittle bones were a surprise to me. I'm grateful this Dr did not overlook this as I was at extreme risk of a fracture at the time. After all osteoporosis is "mostly a woman's disease." So I take that pill once a week just like the little old ladies in the commercial and I take my business to that very competent doctor. I do wonder though how often people go undiagnosed just because of a doctor that is below average like the three others that overlooked my osteoporosis after seeing the same x-rays. I guess my point is there's probably as many men walking around with undiagnosed osteoporosis as women with undiagnosed heart disease and a lot of both with undiagnosed CFS.
May 27, 2010 - 4:20pmThis Comment
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