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Re: Am I crazy?.....Oprah

From: D (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Jan 10 17:20:15 2007

This isn't the first time I've heard complaints about how Oprah totally IGNORES endo. You aren't crazy, that doctor was out of their league, and how they got on Oprah I don't even want to know.

Do you have the contact info? If I saw that show I would definitely write, and if you post it here, I will anyway!

You are not nuts! and so if it isn't "uncommon" - it still isn't "normal"!! Jeebus that just makes me mad!

And of course there was no mention of how motrin (especially at the doses they recommend for endo) is itself a dangerous drug - that stuff gave me ulcers.

GGGRRRRRRRR!!!

That doctor should have told that girl to find an endo specialist who will remove all of her endo by excision. It's a good example of how just because someone is an obgyn it doesn't mean they know diddly about endometriosis.

And thanks for a chance to vent a bit - I'm on continuous BCPs, but my pain still cycles and I'm definitely "PMSing" right now. ;-)

And how sad that her pain is considered an "embarassing question" - I'd really like to see people get past that kind of thinking. Endo is a serious, sometimes debilitating disease - it's nothing to be embarassed about!

At Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Alyson wrote: >
>OK, so I was watching an Oprah episode from earlier in the week that was
>discussing embarrassing questions. She had an ObGyn from Cedar's Sinai
>Hospital on and a girl was asking her about painful cramps. She
>described her cramps as being so severe as to not be able to get out of
>bed sometimes, vomiting, and so painful as to reduce her to tears. The
>doctor responded by saying that this is not uncommon and she should use
>a heating pad and take Motrin beginning two days before she expects her
>period to start or go on birth control pills. No mention at all of
>endo, fibroids, etc.
>Now, from what I've read it is completely not normal to have such severe
>cramping with your period and that kind of pain is indicative of
>endometriosis or fibroids. I want to write in and pitch a fit, but am I
>nuts?
>Alyson

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