Re: frustrating?
From: Kristy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Dec 31 20:18:53 1998
It's always been like this that men are taken more seriously when it
comes to problems. As for having an unsympathetic nurse, that is
pathetic. To embarrass the man's wife was even worse. If men had endo,
and the type of chronic pain that we all have to suffer with there would
have been a craze to get as many research grants as they could get to
find the answers as to what causes this disease. We're the ones that
are told that it's all in our heads.
The reason are taken more seriously when it comes to pain is because
they are big "crybabies" just like children. They act like it's the end
of the world, and then many of them are told that they aren't "men" if
they cry. Oh well, one day they'll see that we aren't wrong.
Kristy
At Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Christine wrote:
>
>You know, after I posted this I thought maybe I better post again with
>an explanation on why I did! Some might have though Why is she posting
>aboout this on an endo forum ?
>:<) I just wanted to point out that men too have problems when it comes
>to adhesions and have the same frustrations. I personally believe that
>men are taken more seriously when it comes to pain complaints than women
>are. My husband is routinely prescribed Tylenol #3 when he has a cough
>becuase "it hurts his muscles to cough a lot." The first time this
>happened we were seeing the same doctor. When I complained of a sore
>throat that hurt more than any other sore throat I ever had in my life
>(turned out to be strep which he had never tested for because it didn't
>*look* like strep-I changed docs after that) he asked me "what do you
>want, narcotics?" On the other side, sometimes when men do complain of
>pain they are regarded as wimps. That is what happened with this man
>I'm describing. The nurse taking care of him that night was not
>sympathetic. Even his wife looked a little embarassed.
>
>I don't know what happened to this man because once they are transferred
>off our floor I no longer have access to that info. But since he went
>to the OR and then a surgical floor I am assuming he probably had a
>laparoscopy. I don't know what they found but I would be very surprised
>from his symptoms if they didn't find adhesions. As I said, this was
>not something the docs thought of right away!
>
>Chris S.
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