Women's Health Issues

"Experts say more women than we know walk out of doctors’ offices feeling that their symptoms haven’t been taken seriously. They are told that their complaints are all in their heads or that everything will be fine if they would just stop worrying.

"The truth: Women who know something’s wrong but can’t get the help they need often have an autoimmune disorder, which occurs when the immune system attacks itself. One in five Americans has one, and three-quarters of them (about 22 million) are women. Some women live with unbearable symptoms for 10 or 15 years before finally getting the right diagnosis and treatment.

"'More than 40% of women eventually diagnosed with a serious autoimmune disease have basically been told by a doctor that they’re just too concerned with their health or they’re a hypochondriac,' says Virginia Ladd, founder and executive director of the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA)."

Community Leader of Women's Health Issues

My understanding is that it will not regenerate and that the goal of my treatment now is just to preserve what little hearing I have left.  By the way, it was the Nurse Practitioner who he sent me to as a "get this women out of my hair" kind of move that actually identified the probem.  What makes this most unfair is that I do not whine or over use my healthcare service.  It has been very frustrating to say the least.  As my sister said "another patient saved by another nurse".

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