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Re: anyone who will listen
From: allan (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Apr 13 18:44:41 1999
Suzy, my heart goes out to you. What a completely horrible experience.
Its awful that you had to go through that!
Take care and hope you NEVER have such crappy medical care again
Amy
Sue Rose wrote:
>
> J,
>
> I was in the Military for 4 years (ETS'ed now, thanks goodness!) so I
> know how Tricare works...or don't work! Anyway, I was only diagnosed
> last month with Endo, so that wasn't one of my problems when I was in
> the Military. I would not go to a military doctor and this is just my
> opinion. But I think I should let you know what happened to me before
> you make a decision.
> I was 2 months pregnant and didn't know it at the time, and I had to
> get one of those types of tests that inject purple dye into you to
> have a closer look at your insides...anyway, they ran two (TWO!!)
> pregnancy tests on me and said that I was not pregnant so they could
> go along with the test. Well, needless to say the day after the test,
> I started hemorraging and was in a whole lot of pain so I went back to
> the hospital to find out that I had lost my baby! I was in shock for
> a long time. Now when I want to have a baby, the doctors are telling
> me that I am going to have a hard time because of the Endo. I wanted
> to sue the bastards but since I was in the military they claimed that
> since I was getting "free" medical care that I was sort of a Guinea
> Pig for them....they didn't say it in quite those words, but that is
> the jist of it! So if anyone has anything nice to say about military
> doctors, please butt in. I would like to hear this.
>
> Suzy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J <mijereda@idir.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list ENDO <endo@talk.obgyn.net>
> Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 9:46 PM
> Subject: anyone who will listen
>
> I just need someone to talk to and you all seem like a good
> group to listen. I am 21 yrs old, I was diagnosed with endo
> Jan 98. They found very little. After when the pain did not
> go away my gyn said to have a baby or to go on Lupron. I
> went on Lupron for 3 months, the side effects were to much
> for me to keep going and the pain was still getting worse.
> My gyn said that since there was such little endo in there
> my pain must be coming from another problem. So I was sent
> to all kinds of other Drs.., they poked me and prodded me
> but still could not find anything. I was glad but I was
> hopping it would tell me why I was having the pain I was
> having. I am in the military and my unit is not very
> supportive of everything I am going through, I cannot allow
> it to show in my work but at times I have no choice. So
> anyways I was finally sent to a Dr. that really knew what I
> was going through, we talked and decided to do another lap.
> Then a month later while I am waiting for an appointment I
> get a call saying that he is not going to be allowed to do
> the surgery. If I still want it I am going to have to go to
> another post almost 3hrs away. And have a military dr. do
> it, I saw him one time before when I wanted a second opinion
> and he barley had the time to talk to me. So I dont want to
> him to be the one to cut on me. I am so mad, I want to feel
> better but I cant when I cant get good medical care. If any
> of you are in the military please help me in how to deal
> with this, or anyone else who might have any ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> Sara
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