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Re: Just diagonosed and sooo confused w/ no help form doctorFrom: Melinda (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
--- Munchichic <anonymous@obgyn.net> wrote: > yes, a > Reproductive Endocrinologist is the best person to see. I hope I don't offend anyone by saying this, because that's certainly not my intent, but from my personal experience, I think you can get great care and terrible care from various types of doctors. Following the advice of this list, I recently had an appointment with a reproductive endocrinologist, in fact one who was suggested by another listmember. This RE had an assistant come in and spend about 5 minutes asking me questions and taking notes on my answers. a LONG time later, the RE came in with the assistant and a prescription for Glucophage XR. I told him I'd never had specific bloodwork done for insulin resistance or anything similar, and he said it didn't matter. Without even talking to me, just from reading notes on paper, he walked into the room and wrote me a prescription, and that was the end of it. Told me to start taking them and come back in 3 months. Since he didn't want any bloodwork, I wasn't exactly sure what kind of progress he could check in 3 months, other than whether or not I'd had a period. I got the distinct impression that because I told him I was not at that time trying to conceive, he didn't have much time to waste on me. Oh, and the kicker is that he prescribed me to take Glucophage XR 3 times a day. After I'd told him I had horrible reactions when I tried to take Glucophage previously. I happened to have an appointment for my annual physical the next day, with my regular doctor. I told her what he'd suggested, and she said, "Waitaminute, waitaminute. You don't take Glucophage XR 3 times a day." She also told me she was planning to attend a PCOS conference. She has more than once come to *me* with something she'd read about PCOS, without my having to tell her or ask her. Without my even suggesting it, she told me that a new piece of my physical was that she'd be checking my insulin levels, because the lab procedure they had was better than last year. I realize that some people have had very poor luck with doctors, and if that's the case I do STRONGLY suggest you try someone else. But I want to stress that good doctors come with all different kinds of letters after their names. It's not a guaranteed thing that an RE will know more about PCOS than your regular doctor or gynecologist or whatever. --Melinda Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
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