[freedomben]

Always a good reminder that absolutism is dangerous. The medical field especially seems subject to this. It took me an insane number of years and multiple doctors and nearly being disabled from it to discover my thyroid condition in large part because "statistically it's mostly women who have thyroid issues" and the monstrously large range of "normal levels of TSH"

[tialaramex]

Huh. I'm male, my Thyroid is shot, and they weren't even surprised. They ran tests, they saw TSH is high and there's barely enough Thyroxine produced, and they went OK, you need Thyroxine, here's infinite auto-renewals, take as directed, and please get re-tested once a year to see if the dose needs changing.