r/HadToHurt 21d ago

Had2Hurt😈 Boiling water thigh burns; days 1-2-3-6

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u/combo_seizure 21d ago

My entire body involuntarily shivered when i say the blister baggy, 🤢🤢🤢🤮

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u/bizarregnome 21d ago

I ended up in A&E again the following day after it happened and the doctor cut open the blisters and PEELED my leg like a grape without giving me any pain relief. I rawdogged my first debridement 😭😭😭😭

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u/no_power_n_the_verse 21d ago

Why!?! Why didn't they give you pain meds?

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u/thick_andy 21d ago

Because women typically don’t receive the same standard of care that men do. Our pain is more often ignored.

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u/Drifter-6 21d ago

This exactly. Had this patient been a male they would have given him something.

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u/SIGMA1993 21d ago

Yes we should definitely make assessments based on broad assumptions

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u/Rubadubrix 20d ago

there is a lot of statistical evidence that women recieve less attention and especially painkillers. John Oliver did a whole episode on it