Ouch!!
Think positive thoughts!
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I’ve wanted a hysterectomy for a long time. Unfortunately it’s a pain in the ass to find a doctor who takes you seriously, and when you find that, it’s an additional pain in the ass to get insurance approval. My current gynecologist is not at all interested in helping me get one.
This urologist is so knowledgeable I wish she was my gynecologist.
I’m currently in my favorite Italian restaurant scarfing lasagna. I have a hot bath in my future. Things should improve from here.
Umm, why, exactly? It’s difficult to imagine you needing an empty wax paper bag from the dispenser…
How interested is your current gynecologist in helping you get a new gynecologist? :mad:
(Maybe your urologist knows one she could refer you to.)
Honestly I was so disappointed after meeting with the last gyn, I just tabled it. This new doctor gives me hope. Maybe she can refer me somewhere. The hospital is a 45 minute drive from my house but might be worth it.
The more I think about the gyn the pissier I get. I told her I believed I was having weird hormonal problems including hot flashes, and she said it was just stress. She dismissed the idea of doing blood work since I’m on the pill. She said I can’t be having low hormone levels on the pill. Now I go here to find out not only does the urologist think I’m having hormonal problems, she ordered blood work and predicts, based on the physical evidence, I will have the hormone levels of a post menopausal woman. I’m 34.
Since you’re Kayla’s Dad, I’m assuming you are male. (TMI ahead.) Women’s bathrooms often have dispensers of very small wax paper bags for disposal of tampons and menstrual pads. You take a bag out, put your used stuff in it, throw it away in the trash. While one could, in theory, add material to an already-used bag, they are quite small and I think the odds of getting someone else’s blood all over your hands would be high. If some jackass had filled a bag and then put it back in the dispenser, I would also have tried to dispose of it by handling the sterile outside of the bag, not by adding my own contribution to the problem.
Dooooooooo iiiiiiiiiiit!
You need to fire this gyno person immediately. My god, if a plumber, mechanic, or hairdresser treated you this way, would you ever go back to them?? NEVER go back to her. She might accidentally kill you.
Yeah, she’s getting fired. I’m so tired.
I repeat one of my maxims;
Professionals work for you
If they don’t work for you
Find another.
Because it was in the wrong place! And janitorial wouldn’t be in until after we left.
OK, I realize I’m a bit slow sometimes, but…
yeah, if the problem is a known side effect of a hormonal treatment I’d say that qualifies as a hormonal problem. But maybe it’s like that trick Ed and I have to make his wife shoot through the ceiling. We say that cancer is a disease of the genes, therefore it is a genetic disease, and boy watch the rocket go! Perhaps the gyn doesn’t think that side effects of gynecological treatments are something she should be worrying about, as she seems to view patients as a bunch of wusses who really should stop complaining. Did she tell you to man up? I had a gyn tell me to grow a pair once and my response was “why, so you can get an article?” (the nurse had warned her that the tools were cold).
The gyn is not your mother. You don’t accept that kind of shit from the actual titleholder, don’t accept it from this other bitch. May your next gyn be a human being.
Got out of work last night, started up my car, and had no heat whatsoever, even after the engine was totally warmed up!
The garage can’t get her in until Tuesday of next week. Ugh! January in Maine is not the time or place to have no heat in your car!
The lil’wrekker had her first ‘big girl’ gyno visit this summer. I took her to an referred Adolescent ob/gyn. ( in Arkansas there are enough teen prego teens to warrent such a specialty). I went in the exam room with her. The doc didnt like that right off the bat, but I didn’t leave. She started crying as soon as the spec was applied, that doc got all up in his feelings as to why she was so upset and told her to grow up, “You will have to get used to this” sez he. Man, I went off on that doc, he never heard a ‘mouth of the south’ momma tiger, like me before. I bet the next teenager he saw got a better doctor. I took her to my own gyn later that week. She spent several minutes talking to her about what was gonna happen and how it was gonna feel, and told her a safe word to use if it got too uncomfortable. She was so nice and informative, I learned a few things I never knew about the spec.use.
And, we found out that her vagina is very narrow and small, so there! evil first doctor! Everything went ok, and she is not afraid to go back every year. Moral: find a new Doctor, Spice, they are out there.
Go on vitals.com and healthgrades.com and warn others by giving that first doc a bad review. Seriously.
Yay!!!
My New Years Resolution, which I plan to keep, is to eat more lasagna in 2018.
The snowcoplypse plus the 60mph gusts ripped off a piece of fascia from my roof. It’s dangling right now and keeps hitting the corner of the house. The wood underneath it (the sheathing?) looks like it’s rotted in places. I have no idea if my homeowners covers it. I also have a deductible. I just want to crawl back into bed.
The dogs are going nuts because we haven’t been able to walk them much. The younger one destroyed her bed and ate my bottle of Vitamin E oil the other day. Yesterday at the height of the storm we saw a neighbor walking his two dogs. We ran into him again when we were digging out the driveway: He said they were so stir crazy that he had no choice. We said ours are too, but my footing isn’t steady enough to negotiate the ice, never mind them on ice.
Uuuugh. That’s a terrible first experience. I don’t know how young she is, but my first gynecology exam was at the age of 13, since I was having severe menstrual pain. I was put on the pill to control the symptoms when I was 13, and it appears that being on the pill for so long is what’s been causing all these problems. Not everyone who is on the pill forever develops those symptoms but you should definitely be aware.
I wouldn’t go as far as to call the first gyn a bitch. She took my pelvic pain super seriously, she’s the one who referred me for PT. But she didn’t take the hormone stuff seriously. This annoyed me because the reason I went to her is that I was having some crazy hormonal symptoms and thought I might be pre-menopausal. Her response was, “Oh, that’s just stress. But don’t worry, we’ll help you with that pelvic pain.”
I mean, I needed that help, but… I had a much more pressing issue I needed help with, which she pretended didn’t exist.
And the irony is I saw the urologist for the pain, which came back around to the hormonal problem. :smack:
The gyn is not getting a good online review.
Spice, I’ve finally figured out that many doctors, no matter their specialty, will automatically do the easiest diagnosis or will dismiss something because it doesn’t fit into their nice and neat little box of diagnoses. Your hormonal issues + your age + you being on the pill? Yeah, that doesn’t fit any of their criteria, so they’re going to have to dig to find the root cause and they’re dragging their heels. My guess is that insurance plays a part in that.
I’m guessing your insurance will cover it.