I just read this article and I must say I AGREE with EVERYTHING on this. It is so hard to go to an ER with invisible illness. I always get so nervous and feel the judgment from the nurses and the doctors who remember seeing me and make comments like “yeah she was here last week.” I do not want to be there I am in pain and need help not your judgment or thinking I’m not as sick as I am. This stress is making me feel worse. Living in a relatively small town the doctors do get to know me and some are wonderful and listen to me and ultimate feel my pain others are jerks who do not care and think “its in my head”.
With my last visit to the ER I got admitted and had to be taken by an ambulance to the main hospital and the ER driver was the same person who brought into the room when I 1st arrived told me “Hey I guess you really weren’t feeling well”???? Well thank you for that observation captain obvious ….. If I could throw up on command and spike fevers I think I would also be able to stop them and not need steroids and fluids. The better question is who in their right mind would take IV steroids for fun? Oh yeah and while you are administering my meds through my PORT you can see that I might be telling you IM SICK!!!!!!!
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