Re: Am I crazy?.....Oprah
From: amber (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Jan 11 06:00:23 2007
Give me the contact details for oprah i will write in as well. Even if
im from Australia it may just help..
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Amber
At Wed, 10 Jan 2007, D wrote:
>
>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.
>
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>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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