Dr. Tabatha Barber was dismissed by multiple doctors who blamed her symptoms on aging. She kept pushing for answers instead of accepting that explanation, and credits that persistence with her health today. Don't settle when doctors say your symptoms are normal.
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Exactly. And, and when women get told that, you know, I always think back to what if I would have stopped. Yeah, at doctor number 3 or doctor number 4, doctor number 5. I mean, that would have stopped me in my tracks. I would have accepted that there's nothing wrong with me, and I would have just continued suffering. I would have gained more weight, lost more hair, because— and I wouldn't be here today. So that's the message, is You have to go beyond. If you have symptoms and your doctor told you you're normal, you're fine, nothing to see here, just part of getting older, you know, you're just getting older, so that's just what happens when you get older. No, no, no, and no. You cannot accept that because we can look deeper. We can get answers as to exactly what's going on with you. We don't stop at just one or two tests. We keep going to get that full picture. Yeah.