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Belleoffreedom 9 points ago +10 / -1

Each doctor has a set of tools. I suggest that, while your doctors so far may all be good ones, they have the wrong set of tools to diagnose whatever is going on with you. Do your own research about your own symptoms, and look for other doctors. Specialists do know more.

This approach has worked for my family, over and over.

I checked myself into a hospital because I had shortness of breath (confirmed by low blood oxygen) and told them I had pneumonia. After checking me for a heart attack, they took a chest X-ray, and nobody saw anything. I told them I had pneumonia, I knew it because I've had it before. They left me on oxygen for about 8 hours until a pulmonary specialist walks in, eyes the X-ray, and says, "I see you have pneumonia." I said "Do you see it on the X-ray?" He said "Yes. Right here."

He pointed to the right spot, the place that hurt when I took a breath.

After that, I started getting effective treatment.

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TheOutlawPepeWales 5 points ago +5 / -0

That's what drives me up the wall about the left. They lose their minds if you want to get a second opinion, especially if that opinion disagrees with the authority figures that they trust. A hundred years ago the "scientific consensus" was telling people that a gauze mask was 99% effective against the flu, and if you didn't wear one they'd throw you in jail. It doesn't logically follow that today's mandates are also ineffective (that's a different debate) but it is a good reason to question what we're being told. This whole pandemic has turned into a modern-day Galileo affair, persecuting anyone who dares to suggest that being popular doesn't necessarily make you right. Scientists are not all-knowing gods and it's okay to be a skeptic, even if you stand alone against the whole world.