You're not alone. Women may find themselves facing this situation for a variety of reasons, especially when they come in to their physicians with vague or systemic symptoms. A close relative to the dismissal of a woman's health complaints is a diagnosis of depression. It is true that women may frequently suffer from depression, and while this may be treatable, that diagnosis might not be getting to an underlying medical condition. Well, treating her depression still does not get at her underlying ailment.
Women tend to suffer from illnesses that have more general symptoms more often than men do.
These conditions include things such as depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, and a whole host of immune or hormonal problems. Since these diseases can have a variety of effects on different parts of the body, making a diagnosis becomes much harder, or the doctor may suspect that a woman is simply imagining her complaints. While this may be a sign that a doctor is insensitive to his or her patients' needs, it is important for a woman to realize that many of these diseases with general symptoms are also rarer and therefore harder to diagnose. So, instead of losing patience right away and chalking it up to a bad doctor, she should be patient or consider visiting a specialist. First of all, it may help her to ask around among her circle of friends to see what they have to say about their physicians.