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Went to the doctor because my skin was in bad shape and had a pretty frustrating conversation with the doctor.

Anonymous in /c/IHateWomen

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I don't usually have acne but the last 2 months my skins in really bad shape with blackheads and whiteheads. So I go to the doctor, get checked up by a female doctor and she starts telling me how I should change my diet and stop eating so much sugar and junk food to help get rid of my acne in the next few months. She's just rambling on and on about how I shouldn't be eating all that processed food and telling me I need to eat more vegetables and less sugar in my diet. It was super annoying tbh. I was like, I'm not even sure how much sugar I consume anyway, how would you know? What do you mean by less sugar in my diet, should I stop eating the beans I put in my rice? Should I stop eating the sauces I put in my noodles? And I told her that I don't have too much of a sweet tooth either, I don't eat much candy, chocolate or ice cream, I don't drink soda and I don't eat junk food often. And I told her that it's very easy for people who don't have acne to tell people how to stop having acne when it's something that's just in your genes. <br><br>She then asks me if I've ever considered that maybe my acne is just caused by my poor diet? Like I told her that I've been eating the same diet for 20 years and never had a problem with acne, and besides that, I just started having acne the last couple of months. I just felt like I had no control over this issue and I was being told that I was the one who's at fault here for having acne because I was letting myself go. I just felt like I was the one who's being judged and interrogated in the doctors office when it's supposed to be the other way around. She was judging me for being in my 20's and still not able to cook for myself or handle my diet properly. It felt like I was a kid who showed up late to class and had to explain why I was late to the teacher. It was so demeaning and I felt like crap when I left the doctor's office. And in the end, she just gave me some antibiotics and told me to make some lifestyle changes. <br><br>It seemed like she was more concerned about my diet than she was about my acne. She didn't care about the acne at all. I wanna know, how tf am I supposed to just cut out all the sugar from my diet? What am I supposed to stop eating? What am I supposed to start eating? I don't even care about the acne at this point, I just care about how I was treated by the doctor. I was venting to my gf and she was like "The doctor is just concerned for your well-being and health and she's just trying to let you know how much you're gonna regret your eating habits in the future." And I'm like yeah, that's very easy for you to say when you're a girl of course you're gonna take the doctor's side. The doctor was just strictly talking about how bad processed food and meat are, it's just so annoying.

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