ENDO Messages for March, 2006: Re: ANGRY & CONFUSED (Long but worth it!)

Re: ANGRY & CONFUSED (Long but worth it!)

From: Loretta (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Mar 9 17:53:22 2006

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At Thu, 9 Mar 2006, JoCee27 wrote: >
>I called my doctor yesterday to ask about refilling my pain medication
>because I am still hurting. They called and left a message on my
>machine at 4:15 pm asking me to call them back. I call back--thinking
>they close at 5 like every other physicians office--and a recording
>tells me that they closed at 4. I look at my husband and go, "How the
>heck did she expect me to call her back if the darn office is closed?" I
>had my mother-in-law call this morning at 8:30 and speak with the nurse
>because when I talked to her the day before she sounded like she was
>none too happy to hear a request for a pain med refill. My MIL goes
>into detail telling her what's going on with me. The nurse calls me at
>work to hear it from me all the while I had this mental picture of her
>rolling her eyes up to the ceiling while listening to me tell her how
>badly I was hurting. She promises to call back with word from the
>doctor about whether or not they are going to fill my pain meds.
>
>I hadn't heard anything by 2 pm so I called them back. The same nurse
>tells me that the doctor hasn't been able to get to it yet and she will
>call me back as soon as she hears something but she said it very rudely.
>I told her, "I'm not trying to sound impatient here, but I am seriously
>hurting. I called one time yesterday and patiently waited all day for a
>return phone call. This is the second call I've made and you make me
>out to be like a nuisance. If you would have told me at 8:30 this
>morning when we spoke that it might be a while, I would have went on to
>the ER and let them treat me; but you didn't indicate that it would take
>all day for me to hear something back; you said you'd call me right
>back. Now forgive me if I'm being rude but before I'm made to feel bad
>for calling my own doctor you need to understand where I'm coming from
>and I am certainly not calling down there trying to wear out my welcome;
>I've only called because the staff has neglected to call me back." She
>said, "Well it's going to be after she sees her office patients that she
>gets to your request for a refill." I said, "Thank you for telling me
>that now after I've sat here all day expecting a call anytime. If you
>had told me that in the first place I wouldn't have assumed that your
>"call you right back" meant within an hour or so." I HATED HER!!! UGH!!!
>
>Anyway, the doctor finally calls at 4:15 and basically jumps my butt
>about the pain meds. She tells me that she doesn't understand why I am
>having pain when I have a bowel movement, pain in my rectum, pain in my
>ovaries, and pain in my pelvic area when I urinate. I said, "Endo,
>right?" She said, "Endo doesn't cause those problems; you need to see a
>GI doctor." I am thinking at this point, "What the hell?" So I told her
>how almost all of you that have been diagnosed with endo are suffering
>with the same problems I am having and how we all pretty much agree it's
>endo related and she says to me, "That's not possible. Endometriosis
>only affects the reproductive system. Only in extreme cases does it
>carry that far... You need to follow up with a Gastrointerologist and
>see if there's not some evidence of IBS, Chron's disease, or Colitis
>going on. I don't believe pain of that type is endo related."
>
>You would think as a medical doctor that she would put two and two
>together to realize that "hey this is freaking endo we're dealing with"
>but nooooo. She doesn't want to investigate any further than the
>reproductive system!! She didn't even say, "I'll refer you to the GI,"
>she just told me if the pain kept going on in those areas that she would
>no longer be able to prescribe pain medicine for me unless it affected
>the reproductive system and the cause of the pain was NOT coming from
>the body's waste system. She's not offered to remove the 4.5 painful
>ovary that is clustered with cysts. She's not bothered to do anything
>but push me out the door with a pat on the butt saying, "Wait until
>you're 35 and we'll help you." I am not asking for miracles but if she
>isn't trying to perform any and all I'm doing is sitting around hurting
>day in and day out the least she could do is make me comfortable while
>we "wait until I'm freaking 35!!"
>
>Sorry.......I HAD to vent!
>
>JoCee
>
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Well JoCee, we have had quite a time with Dr's of late eh? SUX!
All I have to say is YOU DO have pain when void,u likely have implants on your bowel
wall,intestine,bladder...any of those things. Voiding, or pushing of any sort
causes ALOT of pain! I know it.We all do. That Dr like the one i got stuck
seeing really need to see sites like this. I wonder if all Dr's do gyne
rotations in their training? What do they learn or what r they told. They must run into
patients in hosp that r suffering from any of these. R they faking?Just in for the
relaxation and cool meds? Club Hosp, sounds relaxing to me. From my visit with that
idiot yesterday, I just want to print off pages of this site and shove them in his face
...READ idiot..The Dr yesterday said only extreame and rare cases get that kind of pain and surgerys.
Sure seems like alot of extreame and rare cases going on.I hope you can get more pain meds,
I would hate to see you suffer and be out while trying to find a new Dr that you have to expline all this
to all over agin. You should make her make an appt with whomever can diagnos it on your other organs.
At least you would have that in your corner. It was my gyne surgeon who said it was on my bowel/intestine/
bladder..Did she do a lap or is this a family doc?Doesnt it make you infuriated that they treat you like a
nusance, after their drugs, sometimes my hubby says it is like you are taking
or cutting in on their own stash! I'm just mad too.I am still ranting.
Good luck...sorry for her idiocy. mad with ya..Loretta

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