MEDICAL GASLIGHTING: Doctors keep calling it ‘just hormones’ — let’s talk about medical gaslighting during perimenopause and andropause.

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Perimenopause@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

Am I the only one who suffered medical gaslighting from a doctor who told me nothing was wrong, it was just a need to sleep and hydrate and refused to treat me even when I said I knew something was off and I didn’t feel 100%?

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