Sick and Tired


I just saw sick and tired (Ironically while I was laid up having a bad reaction to a new medication) and I was captivated by it. It seemed to perfectly mirror my own journey with fibromyalgia and the end when Dorothy told that doctor off I was literally sitting up in bed like you go girl. Recently, last week actually, we were moving and I had a pain flare up I couldn't get under control. We went to the emergency room bc I can't get the medicine I need from pain management bc it's too expensive and the doctor is like "you're here a lot for pain. what do you expect me to do?" I have no idea! No one will help me! He kept insisting on giving me a steroid shot but I'm a diabetic and he was like that's ok and I had to tell him that last time i got a steroid shot it raised my blood sugar to a lethal level and I was in the hospital the next day getting fluids and insulin. But since it's invisible ppl act like you're making it up or crazy. And studies have been conducted that show doctors take women's pain less seriously. Like when Dorothy said that she might have gotten better care if she had been a man I was like "Damn this is like 30 years old and it hasn't changed". I saved it and showed to to my mom who has rheumatoid arthritis and even she was like Amen!

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Just saw these episodes today on TVLand. I never saw them when they ran originally. It must have been so painful and frustrating for Dorothy to be told "it's all in your head." AAArgh! The doctor in New York even had the nerve to tell her to go change her hair color! Yikes! If a man presented with the same symptoms, would he tell him to go get a toupee?

Reminds me of how my debilitating PMS was not taken very seriously. (menopause took care of it though, lol) I would be put out of commission with horrible cramps and migraines for days on end. I was told to "sit in a warm tub" and "use a heating pad". Yeah great, but I can't FUNCTION for days! Any other ideas?

I loved the way Dorothy gave that doctor a piece of her mind!

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