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Horrible Doctor VisitFrom: Tina (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:27:17 -0500 (CDT)
I recently self diagnosed PCOS. It was a wonderful and horrible eye openor. I went to a support meeting to see if this is really what I had. At the meeting a Reproductive Endocronologist (BAD spelling) spoke. I talked to him afterwards and he was amazed that I had not been diagnosed earlier, I have nearly EVERY medically known symptom. And most of those symptoms that people who have it tend to complain of. Anyway, he told me I needed to go to my medical doctor, talk to her and try to get a referral if I felt it was needed. So I made my appointment. Now I have moved to this area in the last couple of years, but I have gone to her for others things, ya know colds, flu, blah blah blah and she seemed pretty nice. Unfortunately what happened was not, and I was devestated. Thank god for this site. I know this is long, but I wanted to share for anyone else that may have this experience: When I got to the doctors office the nurse asked me what I came in for. I explained to him what I had found out and he was VERY nice. He asked for any sites that I may know of where he can do to look up this disease. I was excited, it seemed the visit may go well. After about 15 minutes the doctor came in, I thought the nurse was looking up some information.. BOY was I wrong. She walks in, slams the door and says, what can I do for you. I started explaining the symptoms i have had for the last eight years or so, since I hit twenty. I told her about the severe weight gain, from 135 to nearly 300 in less than 2 years. And i listed the other symptoms. I also explained that my family has a high occurence of diabetes and heart disease, especially in the women. When I got to the point of explaining what doctors have tried in the past to help she suddenly jumped in. "So, you have PCOS, what do you want from me" I just kind of sat there for a second looking at her. She then started lecturing me on how "fat" people, especially women tend to look for an excuse for being fat. And that she has had PCOS for 20 years and is not fat, had children and never had the "side affects" everyone claims to have. She told me that I needed to WORK to loose the weight, a strict diet and excercise. "And I do not mean just a walk to the mailbox and back" When I questioned her on new medical treatments such as metphorin(?) she got very agitated. "You want me to write you a prescitpion?? is that what you want? Fine, your insurance will not pay for it but I will write it and you will waste your time". She kept saying that I needed to excercise, that I was not eating right. But never asked my how I felt, what was I eating, what had I tried. When asked why I gained it so fast when put birth control, then gained more when taken off she said "If I had the answer to all of these questions I would be rich and doctors would be out of business" I tried to ask several other questions with nearly the same effect. She then said "All I can tell you is that you are going to die, you will get heart disease, and have a heart attack, your legs will have poor circulation and will probably have to be amputated from the weight, since you have not even had a period in four years you will probably get cancer, so if the heart disease does not kill you the cancer will". By this point she had me in tears, I tried to calm and recompose but she would not stop. Finally I got up and turned to the wall to try to recompose myself, I was so ashamed for breaking down in from of her. When I kept trying to ask things she got up, stated that we were getting nowhere and she had already wasted 30 minutes with me, left the room and came back with a name of a specialist, then told me to call her assistant for the referral she does not want to talk to me anymore. When I left I was in tears. I nearly wrecked my car just trying to get home, I felt so worthless. She made me feel like everything was MY fault and if I was not so FAT I would feel better. She told me ALL I had to do was exercise and it would ALL go away. Luckily I have a supportive family and had done a lot of research, which showed that excercise alone will not work. I know this is long, thank you for reading. It is hard to put how I felt into words. I am now trying to get my insurance company to change my primary care provider and writing a letter to the Dr. including articles about the disease. I feel sorry for any of her other patients that come to her suffering from this. I am trying to keep hope, but people like her make it hard.
-- Tina M. Robertson
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