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Educating Doctors!From: Skye (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:51:26 -0500 (CDT)
I'm 22 years old and have been seeing the same doctor since... well, since before I was born. He delivered my sister, my brother and myself. He has treated my entire family. He has my entire family history. I started menstruating when I was 12. I was NEVER regular and would go for months (sometimes even half a year) without menstruating. When I was fifteen, I finally told my mother. She rushed me off to the doctor, and I have a complete physical, which included an ultrasound. My doctor knew of the diabetes and heart disease in my family. The ultrasound came back showing a cyst (or cysts – I don’t know) on my ovaries. The facial hair, excessive weight and acne should have been obvious (they certainly were to me and my peers). My doctor never even mentioned PCOS. When I asked how my irregular menstruation could affect my fertility, he basically told me not to worry about it until I wanted to get pregnant. Even when my depression manifested itself several years later he still didn’t seem to make the connection. Flash forward seven years. I’m 22 and I’ve just moved. After MUCH delay, I finally found the courage to find a new doctor and a new clinic. After having the same doctor all my life, this was a very difficult thing to do. I had a physical and had my records sent to the new clinic. The doctor in the new clinic that I had been seeing was called away for several months, so the main doctor in the office called me in to go over my test results. I don’t know if this is because he actually took the time to read my entire file, or if it was because he took one look at me and had an “ah-ha!” moment, but the first thing out of his mouth, after asking me why I was living with acne (big Acutane fan), he told me to go home and do some research on PCOS. I left the office and went to work, found this site, and almost had to leave work I was SO upset. I went back to my NEW doctor the following day and practically demanded a diagnosis, which he couldn’t give me because of the birth control I’m currently on; however, there seemed to be very little doubt in his mind or mine. My question is now: what do I do now? I want to yell and scream at my old doctor because I’m mad. I also want to make sure that he is aware of this medical condition! I’m also in Canada and have no idea what kinds of treatment options are available to me. I don’t want to treat they symptoms anymore… I want to treat the cause.
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