I hear this, but overall their has been a medical scare on the overuse of painkillers in general. So I think it’s more what type of doctor you have than “who you are”.
I (male) had shingles during COVID lockdown and was only allowed 2 strong painkiller capsules. I asked for more and was told essentially to just try and ignore it and take common over the counter painkillers. They did absolutely nothing and the doctor knew they did nothing.
I recall sitting in agony a lot not able to do anything else because the pain was so intense. Just sweating and wincing, trying to not think about it. Last time I used that doctor for anything.
Meanwhile my parents had a literal shoebox filled to the top with fentanyl patches left over after surgeries they both had because their doctor was just throwing them at them. They had serious pain, but their doctor just didn’t give a fuck and would throw things anytime they asked. Probably because he thought they were going to die soon anyway.
I can’t put into words how horribly sexist doctors can be. Oddly enough (in my experience) especially when it comes to ob/gyn stuff. I have had to threaten legal action before. It can be a hellscape.
After I had lower surgery they were tightly controlling the pain meds. Basically giving me minimum possible doses and not allowing anything else. Even the day after when the bolster was pulling a stitch and I was in screaming pain for hours so bad I also got an asthma attack then they confiscated my inhaler until they could clear it with the doctor. Y’all ever have coughing fits the day after getting five abdominal incisions? Fun times fun times
Sounds like a sexist doctor because most of my doctors wouldn’t prescribe anything other than over the counter ibuprofen even when I was in the worst pain in my life. My mother on the other hand would walk out with a sack of pain killers.
Sounds like she had a decent doctor. Women frequently receive less pain relief and often have their pain downplayed by medical professionals.
You’d think it would go the other way, since the (incorrect) stereotype is that men can handle pain better.
The other (usually correct) stereotype is that a lot of doctors have this weird, paternalistic “I know better and they’re just whining” mentality when the patient is a woman. My mother and sister both have loads of chronic health issues and finding doctors that wouldn’t dismiss the issues (especially invisible ones like fibromyalgia) and actually listened to them when they listed all the things they’ve already tried was a nightmare.
Meanwhile my brother-in-law has a mystery illness that causes chronic gut pain but every test shows something different, yet he’s easily able to get his doctors to try specific tests and treatments for whatever the latest theory is despite years of no success.
Ah, when coming from the “don’t worry your pretty little head, missy” angle, it makes sense.
I started elecyrolysis on my face a while ago and my electrologist said that cis men are the biggest babies about the pain. Me laying there getting two hours of electro on my face every week and dudes tapping out after two or three hairs lol.
I see that come up a lot with tattoo artists. Apparently their clients who are men tend to struggle with the pain of it and on the flip side the women tend to be more tolerant.
I know I’ve fallen asleep during certain tattoos, and while I did have one hurt quite a lot (in a well known place for pain) I just remember thinking oh wow this one is a doozy but I didn’t do anything outwardly about it.
My husband on the other hand straight up passes out from the pain. He didn’t believe me when I said I fell asleep for some of my tattoos so on my next tattoo I wore a heart rate monitor and he was in disbelief when I averaged about 50bpm through the whole thing.
As a cis man, can confirm, we’re whiny little babies about pain.
Sounds like a sexist doctor
Yeah it’s supposed to, that’s the point
I feel like I need a degree to fully appreciate this strip, but I also feel like you could interpret this in any direction. Like, does the doctor care more about the woman or less? Is the male patient more whiney or did the doc have more empathy with him? Getting more and stronger painkillers is not necessarily a good thing and I have no idea about any of the conditions and how painful they are
They care more because the woman only had a vestibularectopicectomy* while the man has a parental cyst removed. Whatever the fuck those are.
Why wouldn’t they have the same procedure done?
Why do I need a medical degree to understand a comic?
the main issue is that women pain and issues are generally not taken as seriously as men’s. it’s a documented issue. and it is not just pain. quite often serious issues get ignored by doctors because the patient was in her period and that explains it, and end up with serious complications.
Right? we need the follow up strip where the dude is now addicted to opioids and is pan handling for “gas money” lol.
I had a pilonidal cyst removed and got absolutely jack shit. Nothing. The hospital was paranoid about opiate seekers and treated me like total scum.
Got one removed too. Got prescribed parecetamol and tramadol (I think, that was years ago)… Learned that way that opioids has barely any effect on me. And that I barely felt a thing despite the healing process (don’t search for it on the net, it can be quite graphic). I also learned I have quite the healing factor. Not the Wolverine level, but enough to heal faster than most people. Downside of it is that I scar really easily 😅.
Yep they are so paranoid that you can’t even get care. It’s wild
They wouldn’t even give me single pill after my car was flipped on the interstate. I could barely walk
Here, clean up the comic a tad, and added Link from LoZ📺(1989) to exemplify the Misogynistic tones, to make the points clearer, as folks had trouble reading the gender discrimination thesis of the comic.
Why? How was that supposed to help? It’s just exactly the same but more cluttered and confusing. Just worse.
I’ve spent way more time trying to figure out why there are random, meaningless icons of a video game character in the speech bubbles than it took me to read the comic in the first place.
EDIT I just noticed her forehead turned blue in one of the panels too, wtf, was this intentional?? This is fascinating
Oh what you didn’t like the 👄 emoji inserted into the comic?
Surely that adds context
What about the shrug emoji?
helps folks that are hard of seeing contextualize parts. Visual aids sort of speak.
Notice I colored the important parts of the Doctor’s hypocritical prescriptions.The color makes the text harder to read, imo
I don’t disagree. Had to consult a praxis chat, and they were able to inform me my edit makes the comic less monochromacally, protanomaly, and tritanomaly legible.
Someone can if they want, make it more monochromacally legible, while highlighting the key words using a different font.
Currently busy.
Much better, thanks.
I’m more perplexed at how this comic triggered misogynists. Like, tune out if you didn’t like the comic. why “unworth read” this?
I have a strong feeling you used AI
Ok fine, I still don’t get why you did it tho.
to exemplify the Misogynistic tones, to make the points clearer, as folks had trouble reading the gender discrimination thesis of the comic
AI edits would probably have made more sense contextually but have malformed details
That you can’t tell is the entire point of AI. For the moment, most of us still can, but that is changing.
Interesting.
I wasn’t expecting this comic to bring out misogynists.I think they’re just downvoting because your edits are more confusing and distracting, not because of misogyny. Like, the OP didn’t get downvoted the same.
This, lmao, I downvoted the “edit” because it feels cluttered, hated the tiny memes (while I upvoted the main post).
OP just doesn’t want to realize people didn’t like their stuff.
Nope, they parallel both. But I did find your comment edits ITT quite hostile.
Ever read of comic styles?
Does the woman getting the pilonidial cyst also get the same pain medication?
That’s what the comic tried to miserably demonstrate: no.
Oh it’s not just the US. Gender discrimination in medicine is pretty global, even down to the research level largely being studied on men.
I mean, yeah, fair point. Taken.
*In Israel.
I guess if your country isn’t actively genociding an entire people this study is not valid as the patriarchy is still under control…
What are they, Dutch doctors? Prescribing Panadol…
It’s Tranadol which is one of the brand names for Tramadol which is a low level opioid painkiller.
I’m used to Panadol as a typical over the counter headache medicine.
Sounds like the average Australian doctor to me
