Her complaints are not the usual ones about the American system.
I only have a really vague idea of what those are.
What leads you to believe that it would be different elsewhere?
I’m a doctor from Finland, and don’t think she would have similar problems here, if she really needed those hormones. Does something lead you to believe it wouldn’t be different elsewhere?
But instead she says that it is a struggle every month.
That’s what I find weird too. I can’t imagine why that would happen, at least in my country. I’ve never even heard of the kinds of complaints she has.
What could be the other side to that story?
I don’t know, I’m not an endocrinologist. A wild guess amongst many: doctors really do have good reasons to believe she doesn’t need the amounts of hormones that she thinks she does (placebo), or even that they’re harmful. She could for example have a psychiatric diagnosis or lots of previous pointless visits recorded, which would strengthen this suspicion further. She would have to do doctor shopping to get her prescriptions renewed, which would make it a constant struggle.
I also find it weird the diagnosis took years when she had that severe symptoms.
I only have a really vague idea of what those are.
I’m a doctor from Finland, and don’t think she would have similar problems here, if she really needed those hormones. Does something lead you to believe it wouldn’t be different elsewhere?
That’s what I find weird too. I can’t imagine why that would happen, at least in my country. I’ve never even heard of the kinds of complaints she has.
I don’t know, I’m not an endocrinologist. A wild guess amongst many: doctors really do have good reasons to believe she doesn’t need the amounts of hormones that she thinks she does (placebo), or even that they’re harmful. She could for example have a psychiatric diagnosis or lots of previous pointless visits recorded, which would strengthen this suspicion further. She would have to do doctor shopping to get her prescriptions renewed, which would make it a constant struggle.
I also find it weird the diagnosis took years when she had that severe symptoms.