Re: - Monica - How naive and Dumb can LABS possibly be?
From: monica (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:38:04 -0500 (CDT)
The pictures were on the PCOS support web site - the address is below.
I'm useless at doing links, so you might just have to type this address
in. Sorry!
http://www.pcosupport.org/PCOSinfo/whatis.html
It's like a cartoon drawing comparing normal vs PC ovaries.
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Monica
At Thu, 10 Aug 2000, kris wrote:
>
>Yes I can get a copy of the films and will do so pronto. So where can I
>see a u/s of what polycystic ovaries look like and normal ones to
>compare? Thanks for your input, I appreciate it.
>
>At Thu, 10 Aug 2000, monica wrote:
>>
>>Hi Kris -
>>
>>I know you are PO'd with the doctor right now, but I did want to let you
>>know about my ultrasound. I had one done a few months ago, in May. I
>>have had these symptoms for 7 years and no-one picked up PCOS. Anyway,
>>I had the ultrasound done - and the written lab report said "ovaries
>>normal." Normal size, shape, everything. Did not mention ANY cysts.
>>This was reviewed AND SIGNED by 2 doctors in my regular doctor's office.
>>
>>I kept researching PCOS because that's what I thought I had - like you,
>>I had most of the other symptoms. One day, I saw the diagram of
>>polycystic ovaries on the PCOSA web-site, and I thought "Well wait,
>>that's what my ultrasound looked like!" (I had gotten a copy of the
>>slides to bring to other doctors). I know nothing about medicine,
>>except the pictures looked pretty similar to me......I was astounded.
>>
>>I took them to the RE who agreed they were classic PC ovaries. I can't
>>think why the lab said they were normal and 2 other doctors signed off
>>on the report as OK!!!!! (Except, some women do have cysts and don't
>>have PCOS - maybe the labs don't think the cysts alone mean anything??)
>>
>>Just letting you know - maybe he DIDN'T just make it up to pacify you.
>>Maybe the lab misinterpreted them. Did you, or can you, get the actual
>>slides as well?
>>
>>The same thing happened with an x-ray years ago after a car accident.
>>One said I had no broken bones, just soft tissue injury, but when I
>>didn't get any better, they did another x-ray and found a broken coccyx.
>>On the third x-ray, to see how the coccyx was progressing, they also
>>found a fracture in the sacrum. (incidentally, they mentioned it was
>>healing well by then...haha) I was in terrible pain for months and not
>>getting the right treatments because of several misreadings by the labs
>>involved. Now I always get a copy of the actual slides, because those
>>labs really do miss things!
>>
>>Good luck.
>>Monica
>>
>>At Thu, 10 Aug 2000, kris wrote:
>>>
>>>With all this talk about docs not listening to us and having had a bad
>>>experince with a couple of them myself, I decided to get a copy of my
>>>ultrasound report. I have only had one which was last year (July 1999)
>>>after I said to my new doc that I thought I had PCOS and that my cousin
>>>has it. When I went to my next appointment he said for sure I have PCO
>>>cause there were cysts.
>>>So I picke dup the report today and you know what? It says my ovarieds
>>>look normal and clear. So this doc told me something that wasn't true
>>>just to pacify me. I am livid. I have all the other symptoms so I have
>>>no doubt I have it and he probably does think I do too but he lied about
>>>the ultrasound. I am of course a much wiser woman than I wasa year ago
>>>and have taken charge of my own body and medical needs but this really
>>>blows my mind. I will not be returning to him nonetheless!!!
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