Boils, 70-Pound Gain and Post-Menopausal Bleeding Dismissed¶
Day 3 · 2:38:55 · Dean Allison · Patricia Leidl
- 🦠 Confluent boils from neck to knees for six months plus rapid rise from 130 to 200 lb left her unrecognizable.
- 🩺 An ER doctor contemptuously prescribed a tiny cortisone tube for massive boils.
- 🌸 Twelve years post-menopause, random bleeding and triple breast-size increase were waved off by a women’s-health GP as “happening to everyone.”
Grotesque physical changes met with medical indifference.
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Transcript¶
Dean Allison · 2:38:55
You also got boils.
Patricia Leidl · 2:38:56
I also got boils. And, you know, my memory is not great at the moment. It was a bit of a blur, but I developed boils from neck to knees. And so I was this grotesque, unrecognizable version of myself. I could not walk. You know, the previous week I had done this 26K hike up in Strathcona Park. It was, you know, an extreme hike. It was on the extreme scale. And then a week after, I could barely walk a block without having to sit down and weep with pain. And then I—.
Dean Allison · 2:39:28
I want to go back to the boils because when we were having earlier discussions, when you literally described you had these for 6 months.
Patricia Leidl · 2:39:36
Yes.
Dean Allison · 2:39:36
And you used the term today and you used it in an earlier interview, unrecognizable, like you, you would not recognize yourself because of these boils.
Patricia Leidl · 2:39:45
Well, they were there. They were from my neck to my knees. So fortunately, just mostly on my torso. I do have photographs. I didn't really feel like sharing them in a public venue, but I was recognizable in terms of, you know, how large I had gotten so quickly. And I was being told that, you know, when I went into emergency yet again, I had a physician, emergency room physician, surveyed the boils. I told him what had happened and he treated me with extreme contempt and prescribed a tube of cortisone cream, which was about this big. And these boils were confluent boils. You know, they were substantial boils. And I got a cream, you know, prescription for cortisone cream.
Dean Allison · 2:40:36
Now, at that time, you had been 18 years past menopause.
Patricia Leidl · 2:40:42
At that time, it was 12 years.
Dean Allison · 2:40:44
Okay.
Speaker E · 2:40:44
Yeah.
Dean Allison · 2:40:45
So 12 years. But something happened. Your period started again.
Patricia Leidl · 2:40:48
My period started. Yes.
Dean Allison · 2:40:50
And that ran for four, four menstrual cycles.
Dean Allison · 2:40:53
Yeah.
Patricia Leidl · 2:40:53
And I wouldn't really call them cycles because there was nothing particularly— they were quite random sort of bleeding. And my breasts became very swollen. I went up about three sizes, which has not normalized. Again, another surreal encounter with a physician, a GP who specialized in women's health. And I think this is really important to note. Because I spoke to her because I went in to get it, you know, you know, I needed, you know, I was potentially at risk for cancer or some other complication. And she said to me very airily, she said, oh, well, you know, that's happening to everyone. The train has left the station on that one. And this was specifically about the vaccine. So this physician who specialized in women's health was telling me with apparently great unconcern that many of her patients were presenting with the same absolutely strange symptoms, which as somebody who had worked on a publication about vaccines, I had never heard about as ever, you know, being the result of any, any vaccine.
Dean Allison · 2:42:04
But you mean the postmenopausal bleeding and— Yes.
Patricia Leidl · 2:42:09
And also the breast swelling. And I also heard from other friends of mine that that had happened to them as well. This was not an uncommon reaction.