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Re: any comments welcome!!
From: kelly (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:29:54 -0600 (CST)
MM,
thank you for your help.. HOw did you find a specialist in your area?
and at what point do you think seeing a specialst becomes necessary? In
my case, i think im ready to have some testing done. Any information
you can give me would be very much appreciated. thank you!
Thu, 31 Oct 2002, mm wrote:
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>At Wed, 30 Oct 2002, kelly wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>I have been pregnant 3 times in the last year and have had all
>>miscarriages.. 2 what i would say were chemical, 1 eptopic. Im trying
>>to find out how to get into seeing a specialist. Do you need a referral
>>from your OBGYN?? or do you just go to one and it's automatically
>>covered and you just pay a co-pay? I have been trying to get ahold of my
>>OB to find out, but he has 2 offices and is a surgeon @ the hospital, so
>>is impossible to get. Does anyone know what I should be doing?? Thank
>>you!!
>
>I would suggest doing you homework on RE's first. Call you local
>University/teaching hospital where there perhaps is a RE who specializes
>in recurrent loss. If they do not have someone they usually are a great
>resource in recommending someone. Check with your insurance to see if
>they require a referral and if you can go in or out of network for a
>specialist. Ask what is covered as far as infertility is concerned.
>Some states make it mandatory that a work-up is covered and some
>companies will even cover a certain amount of treatment. Check with
>your and your husbands jobs and see if they have a infertility plan that
>will cover some treatment. You can check online at different
>infertility sites like fertilethoughts.com or inciid.org and see if
>anyone in your area can recommed someone. I also suffer from multiple
>miscarriages and found a recurrent loss specialist and finally carried
>to term with treatment. Best of luck.
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