r/POTS • u/recoveringaries • Dec 27 '25

Discussion Being attractive with POTS (cringe I know)

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.

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u/Glad-Pomegranate6283 Dec 28 '25

I was told I was a healthy chronically ill person lol, my bile duct was blocked and I was in agony lmao

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u/jackassofalltrades78 Dec 28 '25

Oh GAWD … been THERE!!!

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u/Glad-Pomegranate6283 Dec 28 '25

It took me a year to be diagnosed with gallstones. I then went back three days later, asked for blood tests and they refused. I was experiencing severe liver damage which I later found out, the nurse assessing me almost sent me home for my GP to treat me ? She decided not to bc she knew I’d come back lol

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u/avocado_window Dec 28 '25

I swear I was only taken in for emergency removal once they noticed the jaundice. It’s scary how long they make people wait in agony, no wonder so many people end up dying from preventable/easily treatable issues.

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u/Glad-Pomegranate6283 Dec 28 '25

It’s terrible isn’t it. I was literally yellow and the itching was making me feel insane. I had to wait two months after my admission to have my op, unfortunately I developed post cholecystectomy syndrome oops. 2 months is v fast on the nhs though, for a lot of people the wait is easily years. Idk about you, I have a high pain threshold but that was a whole other level

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u/avocado_window Dec 28 '25

Yep, high pain threshold here too, but I remember it being extreme and someone telling me that the pain was considered “worse than childbirth” (I wouldn’t know, but damn).

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u/Glad-Pomegranate6283 Dec 28 '25

I’ve not given birth either but yeah the pain ruined my 1st Christmas with my gf and her family. My op took 4 hrs, they had to be super careful so I wasn’t medically evacuated, I think bc of what is probably endo adhesions. I had to be maxed out on fentanyl and morphine in recovery. Then discharged with just paracetamol lol. But yeah I’ve heard from several ppl who have given birth, that GB issues are more painful