The past couple of months I've had some odd things going on with my body. I've already mentioned the pregnancy test. I did take a repeat test a week later and came up with the same result but I've just been experiencing some weird things going on. I know my body pretty well and I feel like this stuff is just not normal and it all started after a certain odd event.
So DBF finally convinced me that I should just call the doctor to see if they could tell me anything over the phone. I ended up not being able to talk to the gynecology department because the actual prescription for my birth control was written by my general practitioner because I'd gotten samples from my gyno and I was visiting my general practitioner anyway and she said she could go ahead and write the prescription. So anyway, I had to ask my questions to a nurse practitioner and she had to call me back because they had to look up the answers to my questions since the nurse and the doctor didn't know the answers off the tops of their heads. She called back and told me she was scheduling me an appointment with gynecology. The first available appointment wasn't with my regular gyno but they acted like the things I was saying weren't normal.
I finally went in this morning after working all night only to have the doctor basically dismiss my concerns. I didn't even get to list all my symptoms before he started edging towards the door to call the nurse back in to be present during the pap smear. I'm just so pissed. How are you supposed to even take a guess as to what's wrong with me or be able to tell me for sure that I'm completely fine and what I'm experiencing is normal if you haven't heard all the symptoms?
I feel like I wasted my morning, when I could have been asleep with DBF, on a completely pointless trip to the doctor's office (that's almost an hour away from my house by the way). I thought being a doctor was about helping people. I think I know when something unusual is going on with my body as I'm the one who lives in it everyday. I never go to the doctor for anything so for me to call about this was kind of a big deal and the treatment I received today just reaffirms why I don't bother going to the doctor. If they're not going to take the 10 minutes it would take to get all my symptoms listed and concerns answered then what is the point of me even going in in the first place?
Just one more reason that when I do get pregnant I won't be going to an OB if I can help it. That's not the kind of care I want to get, especially with my first kid when I have no clue what's normal or what's not. I want to feel like I can ask as many questions as I want and get the kind of attention I feel like every patient should get. Maybe if I'd had my regular gyno things would have been different. Or maybe not but I'm not happy at all with the health care system or at least the system where I go. I'll be glad to be on DBF's insurance so that I can go to a different hospital.
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