ENDO Messages for September, 2000: Re: feel like a pest

Re: feel like a pest

From: Kristy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Sep 28 02:50:51 2000

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Carrie,

I just want to say that I do know just how you feel about the calling the dr so much. My dr is a lot like yours. She's very caring and has also been like a best friend as well as big sister to me.

I told her one time of my concern about coming in so often (yes I'm headed back there again on Fri) and how afraid I was that one day she would just tell me to stop coming in every month and to just live with it (the reason for this is b/c my last dr didn't treat me very kindly and hated whenever I called to complain about the breakthrough bleeding and breast pains that I had at the time and finally decided that he had enough of me and so decided to throw me out of his practice).

When I finished telling her of this concern that I had (should have told her how I felt about calling all the time-still do either b/c of pain that gets bad or I have a question) and she just looked up from what she was doing at her desk and said for me not to worry about it. She said that it was not a problem and that's she always glad to help me.

So I've learned that every time I start to get afraid of calling over there with a question or to tell them of my symptoms or that I have to go in every month I just remember those words. It would be so nice if I didn't have to call the dr all the time (almost every week even though I try not to) but I've had so much going on with me physically this year in the way of infections, and I have to remember that b/c of my other condition (the vulvodynia) that I can't do anything about these infections except to treat them even though I do my best to take care of myself, eat right, etc (if you would like to learn more about vulvodynia please let me know and I will be glad to share the links with you).

I would just like to say to you please go ahead and call your dr. What I've realized is this: How can they help us if we don't call them and tell them what our problems are? That's what they are there for: to help us. And if that means calling nearly every week (at least in my case) to tell them of our concerns then so be it. Here's a rule of thumb that I've lived by for the last 15 years or so b/c I have other health problems in addition to the endo is this:

I would rather overworry about a problem, have my dr check it out and tell me it's nothing to worry about than to ignore the problem and let it get to a point where I should have worried about it and then find out that there's not a whole lot that can be done to help the problem. And usually when I overworry and have the problem checked out it then turns out to be that I made the right call b/c it was something that needed to be taken care of and that I caught whatever that problem was early.

One of the things that I've also learned in the last 3 years of living with endo is that I will always have to worry a little bit about my endo getting worse and possibly causing other damage that hadn't been there before. It's b/c of this concern that I'm headed back to the dr on Fri.

I'm glad that your dr calls you at home from time to time to see how you are doing. Not all drs will do that b/c they are so busy. Please do let us know what your dr says, and I do hope that your pain will go away real soon.

I truly wish that more ladies had drs like yours and mine. It's going to take a lot of work for those who are still looking for that good dr. How long have you been with this dr? I've been with mine for almost two years (will be two years in Dec). When I started with her she was just newly practicing (like about a year out of Residency). At the time that I went to her she was sharing an office with another dr and then about 5 months after I started seeing her as a patient she started up her own office. When she started that office I just followed her over. As it turns out so did several other patients that found her at this office that she shared with the other dr.

I hope that this is of some help to you. Please feel free to e-mail me privately any time, and also I wanted to take this chance to welcome you to the list.

Take care,

Kristy S :) Jacksonville, FL

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