Trust me, men can have the same experience. For whatever reason, these difficult-to-diagnose conditions affect women more, but the experience of being shunted around, given inappropriate treatment, being referred to PT as a way to get rid of the patient, it all happens to men too.

I’ve concluded that most doctors are highly credentialed decision trees, they all start at the top of the tree no matter your history, and if they hit a dead end you’re going to told you are the problem, directly or indirectly.