WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for February, 2002: Re: RLQpain and nausea, off to the GYN

Re: RLQpain and nausea, off to the GYN

From: Janice (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:42:33 -0600 (CST)

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At Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Laura wrote: >
>Hi...well so far no one has answered my post from 2/26, but I thought
>I'd try again. The labs (liver, gallbladder, pancreas) came back
>normal. I just made an appointment with my gynecologist, as much as I
>don't want ANOTHER pelvic exam this week, I guess it is unavoidable. Has
>anyone else experienced anything like this before (see previous post for
>details). I'm still having nausea and intermittent dull pain in my
>right side. Still wondering if GI is a better route to go, but I am
>trying GYN first because my doctor's office is pushing that line of
>inquiry.
>
>I feel really frustrated, and I wonder if I'm not just getting turfed to
>GYN simply because GPs have a hysteria prejudice when it comes to
>dealing with women with abd. pain (I kind of get the feeling that for
>them, "endo" is the euphamism for "hysteria"). The GYN I saw first
>about this (last week, at my school infirmary) felt pretty confident
>this was not gynecological. Where does this cycle of frustration end?
>With me just not going to see anyone and hoping the symptoms resolve on
>their own? And they wonder why women stop going for regular exams and
>get noncompliant about health care. It's this kind of crap that does
>it. I'm only 30. Much more of this and I won't ever want to go to
>another doctor again.
>-really really frustrated

Take some adive. If you don't feel or know you don't have a gyn problem, then use your better judgement and don't go to a gyn doctor. Find a doctor perhaps a woman, to do test and find the problem. Today, women are referred to a gyno even when they don't need one. Use your own judgement.

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