Re: Saw my doctor this morning
From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Oct 12 15:16:04 2007
Doctors would always refuse to test me too, leaving me feeling hopeless.
When my general practitioner finally tested me though, I felt it was
such a lifesaver. Have you tried typing in "compounding pharmacy" in
the town you live in? I know there have got to be more docs that what I
sent you on that list and a pharmacy would know of some. Your doc made
no sense. You can totally see if you are estrogen dominant by having
those tests. It just seems like he doesn't want to get to the real
truth for you.
I have been looking for more Luporn studies, but they are not to be
found. Anything newer than 1999. The only published findings I can
find are the ones published by TAP themselves on their damn leaflet.
Where are all the documents of the tests that were done? I find that
very fishy, not to mention, why does TAP have to bride doctors to
prescribe it? Is it maybe because the docs don't really want to
prescribe it because they know the dangers, but then choose to overlook
them, when offered free trips, money and grants? If they are being
bribed to prescribe it, means that they are giving it to people who
don't really need it. They are just trying to sell as much as they can.
That is what is unique about Lupon, or perhaps I would not be so
inclined to think there is some kind of cover-up when it comes to the
real number of victims.
At Fri, 12 Oct 2007, mdustin wrote:
>
>Thank you Becky.
>
>At Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Becky wrote:
>>
>>I'm so sorry you didn't get the answers you were looking for. I haven't
>>been bleeding for 35 days, but I can kind of relate with the bleeding
>>and pain. I also still feel nauseated. Sounds to me like your doctor
>>is the same as mine, they really don't give a crap. I don't know what's
>>gotten into dr.'s these days. It really upsets me!!! If you need a
>>shoulder to lean on, I'm here to listen.
>>
>>Becky
>>
>>At Fri, 12 Oct 2007, mdustin wrote:
>>>
>>>Well, I'm pretty sure that I've exhausted all options with my current
>>>doctor. I saw him this morning for a one month follow up because he
>>>started me on anti-depressants. For those who are unfamilliar with my
>>>story, I have now been bleeding for 35 days since starting bleeding post
>>>Lupron. So, I told him about that, told him about the bleeding and when
>>>the bleeding occurs during the day, etc.
>>>
>>>He told me that he would up my antidepressants and to continue taking my
>>>birth control pills for another month and see how that goes. (I've been
>>>through this before, I bled like this for the past 3 years except while
>>>on Lupron) He then asked me about my pain, which is still there, mostly
>>>on my right side and down my legs and my back. He said that there
>>>wasn't much he could do for me...that I wouldn't like Lupron....(What??)
>>>I informed him that I've just finished my treatment with Lurpon...he
>>>stuttered and said, well, um, yea, you wouldn't like that.
>>>
>>>Then he said that there are other options, but not ones that he would do
>>>at this point in time, surgical options. That affect my fertility. I
>>>informed him that I do not want any more children, but do not wish to go
>>>for that option anyways, due to my feeling that it wouldn't work.
>>>
>>>Then, he was about to send me on my way and I asked him to give me a
>>>hormone level check. He rolled his eyes and said that there was no
>>>point...continued on to tell me how there is no "normal" hormone level
>>>because they constantly change. And even if they were able to figure
>>>out what was lacking...there's no real way to change that. I said,
>>>well, doesn't estrogen dominance explain many of my symptoms, and he
>>>said, possibly, but there is no real way to tell.
>>>
>>>So, I asked him about a good family doctor, because he believes that
>>>none of my symptoms (including bleeding and pelvic pain) are not gyn
>>>related...he gave me a few names.
>>>
>>>I did everything I possibly could do not to scream out at the top of my
>>>lungs. Not to sign a release form for my records right then and there.
>>>I probably should have but thought I would be hasty...maybe, maybe not.
>>>I mean, what other option do I really have?
>>>
>>>Sorry to be so long with this...I'm upset.
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