Selma Blair on how doctors dismissed her early pain, illness

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MS are Parasites in the brain.

When a Dr tells you it’s all in your head… run as fast as you can out of that office. Only an incompetent fool will say something so spineless w/o properly investigating in one’s health. I have my own medical trauma experience. This is why I only seek a functional medicine Dr.

Brave to let everyone see how it affects her speech.

Love your book and your courageous honesty !!! Keep fighting you rockstar!!!!!

doctors.... I don't trust them... they disregard tooooo much....they don't return calls.... insurance dosen't cover 90% of needed testing... But...the....
can't say.
. receive care..our country... messed up😢

Her speech is so much better!!! Than it was a few years back!!🙏🏼

I have MS that took about thirty years to diagnose. When my doctor told me that I had optic neuritis, and that it could be the first symptom of MS, my mother and I went online and researched.. we knew immediately that I would be diagnosed with MS sooner or later. I picked the first symptom I had, just the feeling of a string around my toe, and went back to the doctor and got my diagnosis. Everyone has their own mountain to climb, and mine is multiple sclerosis. Thank you, Selma Blair, for speaking out!

This happens to women ALL THE TIME. If you, as a woman, go to the doctor for pain and fatigue, the first this you will hear are what Selma mentioned, they were hysterical, it they'll tell you that you are fat and/ or depressed. It IS a gender bias, and it's rampant, even in the 21st century! It's disgusting.

It took me ten years to get a diagnosis (fibromyalgia,) and even then I had to travel to a town three hours away!

Selma Blair’s looks good & rather it’s good to see her. Rooting for her & others dealing w/MS❤

Jake Tapper's daughter almost died of appendicitis in part because she passed the 'jump test' - the pain of jumping while having appendicitis did not cause her to collapse or scream or whatever huge reaction her doctor was expecting. If a teen girl or young woman tells you she is in severe pain - believe her. They are not wimps - they are tough as nails. If they weren't, the human race would be extinct already.

I’m so happy to see her better it was heartbreaking to see her in such pain and unable to speak the last few years

I loved her in cruel intentions

Learn how to chop! U fool!

She is amazing

Is this the chick that came out in the exorcist ?

This is so relatable .. I can remember odd symptoms as young as 9 but no one ever heard me .. now almost 57 and dx with RA on top of fibro and the Drs still do not hear me 😞

Medical gaslighting is very real and very common especially as a female. This is just one story, their must be millions just like hers. I've been through the ringer myself and now I always try to find a female physician or refuse to even try to get medical issues addressed. You get worn down and start thinking, perhaps I don't have value and am not worth medical tests and treatment. Thankfully not in excruciating pain anymore. So there's that.

it's always better to get a 2nd opinion from another dr. or maybe more

Bring someone with you when you visit the doctor, preferably a man.

Amazing woman!!!!! ❤

Yup! If people can't see your pain, they don't believe it. I'm glad she is talking about it - God bless her in her struggle.

gender bias is real and a very serious issue in medicine

LORD, please hear us! My illness started as a adult but the pain is unbearable. Ive had Dr. Tell me "to exercise ""when I almost hemorrhage, due to Endometriosis Cyst and needed Surgery, I never been the same Since. ONLY worse. Now I had C 19 at least 6x . N Long Covid. N Chronic Migraine Attacks 💯 plus many other disabling B$ that if I wasn't as strong and God's Favor, Im even alive 🙏

Earlier this year I developed numbness and tingling on one side of the body, then a short time later had sudden blurring of my vision. The neurologist immediately ordered an MRI to rule out MS (thankfully it wasn’t that). I’m so glad I received better care than this woman. 😔

I completely understand! I am 71 and still deal with non-belivers. When I was 30, one doctor told me I was too pretty to be sick. It's a nightmare every single day.