Post by painpainpain on Feb 28, 2007 13:19:16 GMT -5
Ok so as some of you know when I had a really bad episode a month ago my gyno was on holidays. So I'm about that time in my cycle again and I'm exhausted and in alot of pain. Yesterday I had a colposcopy done, which is a procedure that looks for cancerous cells in your cervix. He saw nothing which is great news. Still have to wait for the biopsy results but by the looks of things everything there is good.
Of course, I was a little happy (in a way) that my endo symptoms had returned with a vengence and I was seeing him. Just because he didn't see me when I was like this last month. He was on holidays. He had the nerve to ask me if it was the flu. I have been throwing up after my shifts at work and he just figured it was the flu. I look like death warmed over and this has been happening for 5 days and surprisingly enough no one else in this household, once again, has the flu. I was so upset, not just from the pain of the exam yesterday which I am still paying for today with horrible back pain, but just how insensitive he was. He seems to have been pretty good up til now? Then while I'm crying on the table from the pain, the nurse is telling me that she can make him stop, he looks up at me and says, " Oh by the way I don't think we can get you a referral for about 14 months, so you better get used to this." EXCUSE ME! 14 months. I am just devasted. I'm hoping it isn't going to be that long?
What do I do? Just wait and see or push for another doc?? Like I don't know...my mom seems to think that there are women's clinics out there that you can do self referrals? Is that true? If so can you self refer yourself for these issues? I just feel like crawling into a hole and sleeping until someone deals with this. I don't want to deal with it anymore. I can't believe how frustrating it has been now that I've been sick and had very visible symptoms to get the docs to see that I'm suffering. I have asked for a leave at work...after yesterdays news I figured I can't go on like this calling in sick 3 weeks out of the month and they have just decided to let me go. So now I'm upset that I don't have a job plus I have this doc that was so insensitive towards me that it has sent my into a tizzy. Hubby's not happy about the job and he can't understand why we women just have to live with this? It should just be fixed.
Sorry just needed to get it all out today. Just have had a bad week and it's only Wednesday.
Of course, I was a little happy (in a way) that my endo symptoms had returned with a vengence and I was seeing him. Just because he didn't see me when I was like this last month. He was on holidays. He had the nerve to ask me if it was the flu. I have been throwing up after my shifts at work and he just figured it was the flu. I look like death warmed over and this has been happening for 5 days and surprisingly enough no one else in this household, once again, has the flu. I was so upset, not just from the pain of the exam yesterday which I am still paying for today with horrible back pain, but just how insensitive he was. He seems to have been pretty good up til now? Then while I'm crying on the table from the pain, the nurse is telling me that she can make him stop, he looks up at me and says, " Oh by the way I don't think we can get you a referral for about 14 months, so you better get used to this." EXCUSE ME! 14 months. I am just devasted. I'm hoping it isn't going to be that long?
What do I do? Just wait and see or push for another doc?? Like I don't know...my mom seems to think that there are women's clinics out there that you can do self referrals? Is that true? If so can you self refer yourself for these issues? I just feel like crawling into a hole and sleeping until someone deals with this. I don't want to deal with it anymore. I can't believe how frustrating it has been now that I've been sick and had very visible symptoms to get the docs to see that I'm suffering. I have asked for a leave at work...after yesterdays news I figured I can't go on like this calling in sick 3 weeks out of the month and they have just decided to let me go. So now I'm upset that I don't have a job plus I have this doc that was so insensitive towards me that it has sent my into a tizzy. Hubby's not happy about the job and he can't understand why we women just have to live with this? It should just be fixed.
Sorry just needed to get it all out today. Just have had a bad week and it's only Wednesday.