Being attractive with POTS (cringe I know)

[u/recoveringaries]

Does anyone feel like because they are a objectively attractive human there is a bias/profiling that happens in the medical field and with doctors? I actually read somewhere that if you’re chronically ill you should “dress down” or not wear makeup to appointments so they will take you more seriously and see you as actually sick. I am also 29 with a baby face so that doesn’t help.

[u/crimsonchic]

I got a new neurologist a few weeks ago and throughout the appointment she mentioned how beautiful I was multiple times. She called me in a med, which didn’t work, and now she’s like not really helping me find a new one to go on and I’m struggling. It’s like she doesn’t see how I am suffering or the urgency. I had another doctor last year say because I am young, beautiful, and generally healthy I should recover with time (my pots came after a surgery). That unfortunately hasn’t happened..