2:00am September 29, 2014

“Research studies commonly used all-male subjects. Men with abnormal test results were treated far more aggressively than women with the same results. Women reporting the same symptoms as men were at least twice as likely to receive — no surprise here — a psychiatric diagnosis.”

The Woman’s Heart Attack

Women’s heart attack symptoms are very different than men’s. So for decades and decades, women having heart attacks are diagnosed with psychiatric diagnoses rather than the correct diagnosis of a heart attack. Not coincidentally, women are much more likely to die from heart attacks. Today, some of these gender differences are known, but many doctors still don’t recognize them, and few patients know about them. And basically nothing is known about gender and heart attack symptoms in trans people.

(via disabilityhistory)

I have experienced what both I and the doctor on call thought HAD to be appendicitis and the first question I was asked in the ER was “Don’t you think you’re just having a panic attack?” and “Do you have a history of anxiety?”

this also happens on webmd. If you’re a woman and you put in your demographic info, “anxiety” and other psychiatric issues show up before physical illnesses even if you’ve put in things that are, as above^ primarily symptoms of heart trouble or other very serious, urgent conditions

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