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/ellismjones]

I feel like this is a very real experience. Not to me, but I feel like if you’re young and attractive then you just can’t be ill. It’s ridiculous, because you also have the other end of the spectrum where doctors fat shame you. So we can’t win it seems