Re: Back from the doctors
From: D (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Sep 14 13:32:25 2007
I agree very much with anonymous! You need a new doctor, an endo
specialist. I understand being disappointed, but at the same time it's
so much better that this doctor is telling you directly that he can't
help you. Too many doctors do lap after lap on their patients with
endo, nevermind that they don't do any good. At least this guy isn't
running you through that mill.
Just because he's "given up" doesn't mean that you should! I heard
pretty much the same stuff from the obgyn who did my first lap and
couldn't find any endo. She sent me for a GI workup which of course
could not explain the pain because I had endo. Then I took things into
my own hands, found an excision specialist, and now I'm almost two
months post-op from my lap and feeling better than I have for years -
there is hope!
At Fri, 14 Sep 2007, anonymous wrote:
>
>please go see a differnt doctor. just because your doctor doesn't think
>anything else can be done doesn't mean that nothing can be done. it
>just means that HE can't do anything more. please don't make the
>mistake i made. please see another doctor. if possible, send your
>records to a specialist for them to review. dr. albee doesn't charge
>to review records. even if you couldn't get to see a specialist, mabye
>if you had his opinion, you could take that to another doctor and get
>them to do something.
>
>At Fri, 14 Sep 2007, mdustin wrote:
>>
>>Hello everyone.
>>I went to see my doctor this morning. And it didn't go very well. My
>>doctor did an exam, even though I'm bleeding much heavier today. No
>>tests were done or anything. He felt my abdomen, bladder, uterus and
>>bladder areas. All were tender. I woke up this morning at 4:30 in
>>extreme pain and had a very difficult time going back to sleep. During
>>the exam, he asked if I had trouble with bowel movements. I replied,
>>yes, I always have. He then said that he wanted me to go to a GI
>>consult and said that since I've already had my lap done and have been
>>on Lupron, there is not much more that he can do for me. He said that
>>he doesn't think that my pain is gyn related. And said that, again,
>>there is nothing that he can really do for me. Then he asked about my
>>anxiety/depression and gave me a script for Prosac, the lowest dosage.
>>And then I asked him, well, shouldn't I be on some sort of birth control
>>now that I am bleeding again, he said, oh, yeah, we'll give you samples.
>>
>>I didn't not talk about or ask about many things that I had planned on
>>discussing, because I felt like at this point, it really wouldn't
>>matter. He's pretty much told me that he's given up. That my pain
>>isn't and/or couldn't be due to my Endo. Which, I think is absurd. I
>>have Endo. But he seems to think that I have IBS or something GI
>>related to cause all of my pain. Besides getting on something for my
>>anxiety and depression, I feel that this whole appointment was a loss.
>>I'm very sad.
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Find an endo specialist in the ERC's EndoDocs group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndoDocs/
Try an excellent endo support group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erc/
Info on pain management:
http://www.painfoundation.org/
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