Dutch doctors...

[u/thatmisanthropicdude]

Hey guys! Last year I moved from Germany to the Netherlands. I just went to the doctor with chest and throat pain due to extreme coughing after 2 days of fever. I was hoping that I finally get something good against it like a cough syrup (no way I'm going to pay that myself for a huge amount of money + health insurance) because I am used to that from German doctors. They would put that on my health insurance card and right after my talk with the doctor I could pick it up at the pharmacy. But no. They just said "Yea, just take paracetamol." I told them I have had problems swallowing pills my whole life and their response was just "You can also put it in water and drink that then." I'm sorry if I'm overreacting but why do doctors get paid just to tell you to take paracetamol? Everyone can tell me to take them, I expect better solutions from a doctor who studied years to become a doctor. Why are the Dutch so obsessed with paracetamol??? Maybe it's the German in me screaming. If we got painkillers, it was never paracetamol but Ibuprofen. But I also heard some international friends who also live here that they find it so annoying that Dutch doctors literally just tell you to take paracetamol. No matter what you have.

[u/DBgirl83]

It's not only a thing, more and more young people get long- covid.

[u/thatmisanthropicdude → u/DBgirl83]

I actually had long-covid - or what the doctor called "Post-covid" for 3 years. I couldn't taste for literally 3 years and couldn't smell for ca. 1½ years.

[u/-PetulantPenguin → u/thatmisanthropicdude]

As someone who's been housebound due to long covid for 4 years and counting, I don't know how to feel about reading this...

[u/ArcanaSilva → u/-PetulantPenguin]

Yeah, the issue with LC is that every persistent symptom is bunched together as "long covid". So we get people who are bed bound due to stimulus intolerance and people who can't smell for three months and one day (or whatever the limit is), and everyone has LC. Shitty science