1d ago

The poop psa absolutely no one asked for

I was in a fugue state drawing this. If it is in any way upsetting, I will delete it.

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Hemorrhoids: Am I a joke to you?
- Anal fissures too
- SHHhh, they still should consult a doctor. Don't give people an excuse to not seek medical help.
  
  in most places you will first need to consult an intermediary person (like a GP or family doctor) who will tell you to wait and observe for a while anyways. it is not like you go to the hospital and they immediately test you. you need to bleed out of your anus for quite a while before they take you seriously...
  
  Sounds like 100% your location issue. In UK shit is taken seriously. Try different GP and report them if you can.
  I'm talking from experience too. If they're not taking bleeding seriously, it's fucked beyond belief.
  
  well even if you are taken seriously there is a very high chance you will be hit by waiting times still
  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/08/cancer-patients-england-deadly-delays
  
  Have not, was seen same day and examined within an hour... 2024 Feb is fairly old, wait times have been being cut.
  Just pointing it out as you're just spreading misleading information. Yeah, it was bad and situations like that suck, but what are you achieving? Are you seriously trying to do what exactly?
  
  One year is old wow? If you are 20 years old maybe but otherwise it means you have spent like 10+ years navigating the problems of this system and getting frustrated at every turn. One year of improvement does not undo all those years of hardships. I have had friends going back to their own countries for treatments because of these waiting times and sometimes because their problem was not taken seriously, my wife being one of them, a close friend of mine another. Calling a fair criticism of a system that has been horrible for the last two decades of someone's attempt to "achieve something" and "spreading misinformation" sounds directly from the fascist's handbook.
  
  I understand you're angry. But you're yourself and those around you no favors. Undoing "two decades" of damage to the system takes times, but talk like yours undos labour's efforts and is exactly how reform will take charge.
  Get over yourself and look at progress. Accusing someone of "learning how to navigate" and assuming my age is laughable. If anything, it shows your immaturity and lack of rationale. Whataboutism gets us nowhere. Nothing about your comments falls under fair criticism. It's just ranting. Ranting manifests doubt. Doubt loses labour seat of power and puts reform in. Doesn't take a crystal ball to see that.
  
  If you think just because a party is named labour things are guaranteed to get fixed it is wishful thinking and you are in for a disappointment. I will vote for labour anytime over any conservative government but these problems are systematic and four years of labour government and some new taxes will not fix those. And a criticism of a system that has been broken for more than a decade with multiple labour governments in charge in the same period is not a criticism of the current government. And people like you who think that labour governments or democrat parties cannot be criticised because the alternative is much more horrible are the ones lacking discussion maturity and rationality and the reason why better alternatives cannot get a foothold. If you think current labour is a perfect government then it is you who should get over yourself.
  
  You aren't getting this. There's a huge support community out there. People will get help if they reach out. And they should do so.
  
  Um ... nope. I sent me to a gastroenterologist. We just talked, no physical exam. He immediately scheduled the butt probe. After that he sent me to the hemorrhoid guy who only saw me once, procedure on the first visit.
  I'll add that every medical professional that I spoke to about bleeding out of my ass was understanding and concerned. At no point was I not taken seriously.
- No, that's lightly colored blood. Mostly on toilet paper. We're looking for dark red blood here.
  
  Or black.
  
  Light colored but surprisingly high volume 😬

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