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Speaker 1: a very long time really fucking up medical advice for
Speaker 1: the women. If we're the greatest country, ever, how come
Speaker 1: we don't know anything about our vaginas. So listen to
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Speaker 1: with your pussy? Basically, um, well, I have a brand
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Speaker 1: didn't know we were getting into a design. This is
Speaker 1: this is very very interesting. Okay, soar from the very beginning,
Speaker 1: So I have a disease called mucus memorane pemphigoid um,
Speaker 1: and pemphigoid is really a disease that is a skin
Speaker 1: disease that it's a super rare even for your skin.
Speaker 1: But people get basically blisters all over their skin um
Speaker 1: and like little bubbling blisters or white like film stuff.
Speaker 1: So for me, I got even the rarer version of it,
Speaker 1: which is mucus membrane pemphigoid. So it started basically it's
Speaker 1: everywhere I have mucus membranes, which is a lot of
Speaker 1: places in the body, a lot of places. It started
Speaker 1: in my mouth. Um, oh my god, was like was
Speaker 1: it actually very painful? It was extremely pain um. So
Speaker 1: it started like I had this white stuff all over
Speaker 1: my mouth. And when you get throat, like when you
Speaker 1: get I know, when you sometimes we get gnarly striped throat,
Speaker 1: there's like white blisters, Like is that did it feel
Speaker 1: like that? It It didn't totally feel like that, because
Speaker 1: I feel like that's just like at the back of
Speaker 1: ear throat. This was like everywhere and had no idea
Speaker 1: what was happening. And I was going to a lot
Speaker 1: of like walk in like city m d places they
Speaker 1: like fun, they don't know Jacks, they could take blood
Speaker 1: because here's what happens to me about five times, which
Speaker 1: is five amazing. So every doctor that I saw one
Speaker 1: of those places told me that it looked like I
Speaker 1: had this disease called harry lekoplakia and that disease, and
Speaker 1: so I would like some multiple doctors. So that's second
Speaker 1: third opinions because I guess it looked exactly like that,
Speaker 1: and when I googled it and my mouth really did
Speaker 1: look like that. But like they jumped to that conclusion
Speaker 1: that's a disease that you your body gets if you're
Speaker 1: HIV positive and your HIV is turning into AIDS, that's
Speaker 1: usually what will happen to you. So they should have
Speaker 1: given you an AIDS to HIV test. Every like doctor
Speaker 1: followed up with, I have to give you an AIDS test.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I don't have AIDS. I don't
Speaker 1: like I've been safe. I'm not like I don't. It
Speaker 1: was just just imagining you what a city MD going.
Speaker 1: I don't have AIDS, guys, It's just like not super common.
Speaker 1: And then also on top of it, just like walking
Speaker 1: in as a heterosexual woman, you're like this statistically it's
Speaker 1: not and you're not not. I'm guessing you're not doing
Speaker 1: intravenous drugs, you know, And if you are, we could
Speaker 1: talk about it. And if you are, that would be fine.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you would have let them know. But it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, the odds are stacked against you. The odds
Speaker 1: of AIDS are definitely stacked, especially when you know. I
Speaker 1: got the test on from one doctor and then I
Speaker 1: went to another and told them that I had a
Speaker 1: negative HIV test, and the next one and the next one.
Speaker 1: Eventually my mom had taken me to the emergency room
Speaker 1: because I really couldn't eat at all because I was
Speaker 1: going to save your mouth. Can you even swallow? Could
Speaker 1: you swallow? I still still to this day can't swallow
Speaker 1: like a normal person, but because there was a bunch
Speaker 1: of scarring, but I was swallowing and it felt like
Speaker 1: it just felt like there was like a golf ball
Speaker 1: in my throat every time I tried to swallow, and
Speaker 1: it was very painful. Um. But even in the emergency
Speaker 1: room they gave me an HIV test, it was like,
Speaker 1: come on, don't have it. This is not Harry Lukoplakia,
Speaker 1: Like I don't have aids like, we gotta find something
Speaker 1: else here, especially coming in with like that knowledge. And
Speaker 1: it's so annoying when you go into a doctor's off
Speaker 1: and you say, this is who I've been to, these
Speaker 1: are the tests I've had, this is what we know.
Speaker 1: It's not they treat you like your stupids. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: because the training that doctors get is so this is
Speaker 1: the book and this is exactly what you do, and
Speaker 1: if you identify a disease based on these rational then
Speaker 1: this is what it is. And it's that's not medicine
Speaker 1: is human. They took the humanity out of medicine. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh my god, yes, which they certainly did when I
Speaker 1: started going to the gynecologists. UM. So I during this time,
Speaker 1: I didn't I still didn't know what I had UM
Speaker 1: and my nose was starting to bleed a lot, and
Speaker 1: so I was going to like several different doctors. That's
Speaker 1: so scary, Yeah, it was. It was really strange. UM.
Speaker 1: But I tried to masturbate one night, um, as you
Speaker 1: do with the rabbit, and it was so painful. Was
Speaker 1: that the first time it had been painful? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it was about a month after my mouth UM was
Speaker 1: going through all this, and and during that time when
Speaker 1: it was painful masturbate, was your mouth still like swollen?
Speaker 1: And yeah? Oh god, so you were living with this
Speaker 1: for a long time. I didn't. Did you try to
Speaker 1: have sex in that like one month period? No, So
Speaker 1: this was like the first time you kind of like
Speaker 1: went down to you like use your something other than
Speaker 1: like P. We had to distrangd yourself to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Which my P was also coming out like in droplets.
Speaker 1: Every orifice is kind of closing up, which it was
Speaker 1: because it was being blocked with these like things Jesus
Speaker 1: the blisters. Um. Yeah, so it hurt a lot, and
Speaker 1: I tried to like shove it in basically, and it
Speaker 1: was so painful that I was like, what the funk
Speaker 1: is going on? Do you feel like you were like
Speaker 1: shoving a knife in your pussy? Like, like was it
Speaker 1: sharp like that? It didn't because it was rubber, So
Speaker 1: I didn't. But that's what started to happen every time
Speaker 1: I went to a new guynecologist to figure it out
Speaker 1: with the speculum. But finally, during this time before I
Speaker 1: went to a gynecologist, I found out that I had pemphigoid.
Speaker 1: So it was like a month later, I did. I
Speaker 1: didn't say anything to anyone about my vagina, which is
Speaker 1: really fucked up, like doctor know, Like I was like
Speaker 1: embarrassed of it, which is crazy but common. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you learned to be embarrassed by it. It didn't
Speaker 1: have you weren't embarrassed about it out of nowhere to
Speaker 1: try to tell you that you had like AIDS and
Speaker 1: you get frustrated, you know, And there is a stigma
Speaker 1: attached to that too, and I think, like, you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: like when you just know it's not something or like
Speaker 1: you know that you're not like the person that was
Speaker 1: going to get it's weird. There's just like a there's
Speaker 1: just a stigma and lack of knowledge and then lack
Speaker 1: of access to good health care. Because I living in
Speaker 1: New York City for seventeen years, I don't even go
Speaker 1: to those uh urgent cares anymore because I was like,
Speaker 1: I could honestly just flush my money two down the
Speaker 1: toilet and go to web m D and do a
Speaker 1: better job diagnosing myself. I've had so much bad experiences. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will never go to a city m D or
Speaker 1: any of those certain places again. But um so yeah,
Speaker 1: so your vagina is painful, you're not telling anyone you
Speaker 1: find out what you have? Yes, how did you find
Speaker 1: that out? Ultimately? Um, it was so many different doctors, um,
Speaker 1: And finally an infectious disease doctor who took like five
Speaker 1: vials in my blood and was like, you don't have
Speaker 1: any infectious diseases, but looked at my mouth and he
Speaker 1: was like, I think you have something called pemphigoid. He
Speaker 1: literally wrote it on but also too, I think you
Speaker 1: have something like the instead of you have this like
Speaker 1: that that's humanity. Like I just I'm so disappointed in
Speaker 1: the world, and I wish that. I hope if anybody
Speaker 1: listening who's a doctor, really consider your ego when you're
Speaker 1: talking about patient seriously. Although I have to say this
Speaker 1: guy he wrote it down out a post. He's like,
Speaker 1: I can't diagnose this because I'm an infectious disease doctor
Speaker 1: and it's not an infectious disease. He was like, but
Speaker 1: go see this like oral surgeon who cut a piece
Speaker 1: of my tongue off. How that feels fun insane? Were
Speaker 1: you under a piece? Wait? Wait wait wait? Did did
Speaker 1: they not like did they do put athesia or local?
Speaker 1: Just local like I didn't see it, but it felt.
Speaker 1: It felt. It was the most painful. Even it was
Speaker 1: worse than shoving the rabbit and my vaginal um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was so painful and people get their
Speaker 1: tongue beers. But then I was like, well, maybe this
Speaker 1: is like taking a full piece off, so maybe it
Speaker 1: hurts more than the tongue beers. When I bite my tongue,
Speaker 1: I scream, so imagine yeah, like biting all the way through.
Speaker 1: Like yeah. But he diagnosed it as that um and
Speaker 1: so um, So then I had to go to I
Speaker 1: found I just like Google doctors, there's one UM specialist
Speaker 1: in kemphigoid in New York City. She's a dermatologist because
Speaker 1: this is really a skin disease UM, and so I
Speaker 1: went to see her. She told me to get it.
Speaker 1: At the time, I was freelancing. I was just doing
Speaker 1: like creative producing on productions and stuff. So um. She
Speaker 1: told me to get a job that gave me really
Speaker 1: good health insurance. I was going to say, were you covered,
Speaker 1: So did you have like a like some kind of
Speaker 1: health interns you were paying by yourself, like the minimum
Speaker 1: coverage kind? I was on that, yeah totally, And she
Speaker 1: was like, you need to get real health insurance because
Speaker 1: for what I have since Like, she can't be she's
Speaker 1: like the main doctor because she's the specialist. But because
Speaker 1: it's on my mucus membranes, and mucus membranes are in
Speaker 1: a different area of your body, I had to get
Speaker 1: a specialist from my nose, from my mouth, every like.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so it's crazy. Hey, fucker's hope you enjoyed
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