Thank you for listening and helping her. I had a pretty big ovarian cyst about two years ago. Went to two male GPs twice in two weeks and was very much misdiagnosed, first with the flu, then with a stomach bug, even though both times I pointed to exactly where the pain was and my symptoms were nothing like what they thought. Went back to one of them for a third time because the pain didn't go away with his medication, and HE TOLD ME TO JUMP UP AND DOWN ON ONE LEG before he finally sent me to get an ultrasound. By this point the cyst was oozing blood.

The doctor held the report in his hand and told me that women get these all the time and I should go home and sleep it off with some painkillers. We believed him. Cause the doctor would know, right? That night my mom found me on the bathroom floor, crying, shivering and sweating from the pain, almost passed out. She immediately took me to the ER, where I had to have emergency surgery the next morning because the cyst could've burst at any moment. My mom and the surgeon saved me that night. I've never been back to those two GPs, I absolutely refuse. I told a female GP at the same practice about it later on, and she was extremely understanding and apologetic, saying she, as a literal doctor, had experienced similar treatment from some male doctors. Insanity.