Poor young woman to go through such pain and suffering, but the negligence and ignorance from her GP and other doctors in the hospital is shocking. Because she is young and female she is treated so poorly as usual in the health system.
Many of us have been through such sexist arrogant treatment, yet nothing changes even when it’s female doctors and nurses. I am glad to see that she got her diagnosis and treatment. That pain and suffering must be horrific and the disbelief from the medical community compounding this.
Too young to have bladder issues?? What ignorance and stupidity from educated medical professionals. But that is bog standard mentality in the health sector. Too young to get cancer, too young to have reproductive issues, too young to have menopause etc. The human body is not a one size fits all, it is as different as you and I, so doctors should never assume anything. Investigate and rule out first using a process of elimination and scans. A scan should have been done as soon as she went longer than 24 hours without urinating. This is gender based discrimination and age based discrimination against young women. But to first offer a laxative is utterly ridiculous, why give bowel treatment to a bladder issue? and the longer you go without urinating leads to infection.
Many years ago my oldest child was in excruciating pain like this getting out of his car seat. We had been shopping early one morning and just gotten back home. He was perfectly fine until I was getting his baby brother and him out of the car seats, when he started screaming in pain.
Unable to stand up easily and crying, I managed to get him and his little brother into the house and rang for an ambulance. As soon as he got into A. and E and his father arrived from his office nearby the doctors were very quick and thorough. It turned out he hadn’t been to the toilet when he got out of bed in the morning. I had expected him to have been to the toilet as usual on waking. He was able to urinate no problem in the hospital and was a happy camper right away. Now he was a small boy just weeks away from starting school, and he was given very good care by the ambulance crew and the doctor because he was a small child, so when a young woman is unable to urinate for 24 hours why is she treated so poorly? She is obviously an intelligent woman and knows something is wrong but nobody will listen to her.
She is put in a mental health ward because they refuse to accept the truth that she couldn’t wee. I would like to see all of the doctors she saw reprimanded for abuse and negligence in their duties of care to her. She should definitely seek legal counsel.
