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Re: Will it ever end, Suz
From: JANET (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Jan 10 18:06:21 2000
Suzanne,
Hello there.. Do you have any friends that you trust the judgement of,
or sister? Or even your mother? Find out there doc's name, and see if he/she
is personable, and caring, and compassionate, and then see how much
experience he/she has with the disease... Find out if you can see what days
they do surgery (even though it may change after you've been with them a
while), and see if it goes along with your schedule, so you know if you'll
have a babysitter on that day and whatnot (sorry, i'm assuming you have
kids, if you don't i'm sorry), and if you can have the day off work, (again
i'm assuming, sorry if you don't, i don't, so i don't know why i'm assuming
you do)... Just call around and make sure your comfortable with the doc, and
his/her nurses. You also want to see if you like the nurse he has most of
the time, cause thats who, besides the office staff, you'll be conferring
with the most.. I hope you find one soon, because you do need one, with this
disease, you never know what kind of complications might arise, and you need
a doc on hand to deal with that.. And remember your employing the doc, he's
not your boss. You are..... Good luck!! Jan
-----Original Message-----
From: SUZANNE <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ENDO <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Date: Thursday, January 06, 2000 3:45 PM
Subject: Will it ever end
>I'm sitting here in tears. I had my period start on December 30th. Which
was
>15 days after the last one ended which made for a 20 day cycle. I bled for
4
>days heavy and then on January 3rd it stopped and now January 6 I am
>bleeding again heavy. I have no doctor at the present to consult on this .
>I'm frightened angery and confused. Something is obviously wrong with my
>body. I am also frightened that I have no trust in a doctor since my last
>Ob. tried curing my endo. with a tubal ligation. I feel so butchered from
>having the tubal ligation and the bleeding makes that butchered feeling
>worse.
>
>I go from period cramps to endo. pain to period cramps again with no
>reprieve from it. I question it from several directions. Is it the tubal,
is
>it the Endo., is it a hormone imbalance that the tubal caused, is it
>something all together different? How did those in the forum that had a
>doctor let you down go on to trust again. I know when I get a new doctor I
>will be questioning everything they say and that's not good. Having this
>much misstrust makes me on the defensive side which puts a doctor on the
>defensive also. I don't mean to come off being defensive but it's hard. I
>know Doctors do not like patients who stand up and let themselves be heard
>but this disease has made me stand up and want to be heard . I learned from
>my past doctor never say you researched on the internet b/c he said you
>never know who wrote what on there. How do you make a doctor listen to you
>on what you want ? I know what I want I want anouther Lap to see what is
>going on in there I do not want to be put on lupron, I do not want to be
>told it's just depression here are anti depressant pills, I know my body is
>trying to tell me something and I want to be able to trust my doctor will
>listen to my body and do all he or she can to find out what it is saying. I
>want test to rule things out.
> Thank you all so much I know I have been on a role here with letting
>things out and I want to be positive about it. Just finding the positive
>things in it have been hard.
>Big hugs to all for listening, for being in pain, for being you.
>Suzanne
>
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