Doctors...
Apr. 23rd, 2001 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litheraWell, that was the most useless two hours I've spent in sometime.
Scene - Doctor's waiting room.
Kat enters, a little nervous but under control. She proceeds to stand in-line for ten minutes to get checked in. After filling out paperwork, she settles down in the chairs to read her book and wait.
*time passes*
Over fourty-five minutes later, half an hour after her appointment was scheduled, she is called back to a room. Blood pressure is taken and the intern leaves with reassurances that the doctor will be in shortly. Kat goes back to reading her book.
Thirty minutes later a elderly female doctor comes in and says, "I'd like you to take a preganacy test."
Kat blinks at the doctor for a few moments, "I haven't had sex in over a year and a half."
The doctor looks at Kat for a few moments and says, "Well, then, that's unlikely. Do you have Clamydia or anything else like that? These things stay in your system for years..."
Kat blinks a few more times and points to the place on her recored that say she was tested for these things not too long ago.
The doctor pauses and nods slowly, "Are you sure that no male has ejaculated near you recently? I really think that this is a sign of you miscarying."
Kat blinks a few more times, trying to decide if this is funny or not. "Unless someone is sneaking into my room at night and either having sex with me or masturbating on me, I'm absolutely certain about it, yes."
The doctor nods again, looking owlish. "Are you taking any drugs recrationally?"
Kat sighs softly, "No."
The doctor apparently does not believe Kat and askes her more drug related questions. Afterwards there is poking and prodding and nothing revealed. "Well, we can up the strength of your birth control pills. If that doesn't stop the bleeding come back in and we'll go inside and look for tears."
Kat sighs and nods not really wanting anymore poking and prodding today. Kat gets her new prescription and heads home.
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So, that was useful. Great. I'm miscarrying the second Immaculate Conception. Or something.
Scene - Doctor's waiting room.
Kat enters, a little nervous but under control. She proceeds to stand in-line for ten minutes to get checked in. After filling out paperwork, she settles down in the chairs to read her book and wait.
*time passes*
Over fourty-five minutes later, half an hour after her appointment was scheduled, she is called back to a room. Blood pressure is taken and the intern leaves with reassurances that the doctor will be in shortly. Kat goes back to reading her book.
Thirty minutes later a elderly female doctor comes in and says, "I'd like you to take a preganacy test."
Kat blinks at the doctor for a few moments, "I haven't had sex in over a year and a half."
The doctor looks at Kat for a few moments and says, "Well, then, that's unlikely. Do you have Clamydia or anything else like that? These things stay in your system for years..."
Kat blinks a few more times and points to the place on her recored that say she was tested for these things not too long ago.
The doctor pauses and nods slowly, "Are you sure that no male has ejaculated near you recently? I really think that this is a sign of you miscarying."
Kat blinks a few more times, trying to decide if this is funny or not. "Unless someone is sneaking into my room at night and either having sex with me or masturbating on me, I'm absolutely certain about it, yes."
The doctor nods again, looking owlish. "Are you taking any drugs recrationally?"
Kat sighs softly, "No."
The doctor apparently does not believe Kat and askes her more drug related questions. Afterwards there is poking and prodding and nothing revealed. "Well, we can up the strength of your birth control pills. If that doesn't stop the bleeding come back in and we'll go inside and look for tears."
Kat sighs and nods not really wanting anymore poking and prodding today. Kat gets her new prescription and heads home.
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So, that was useful. Great. I'm miscarrying the second Immaculate Conception. Or something.
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Ummm..excuse me....
Kat,
I'm going to have to barge in here with some emphasis...there are a couple of things that can strike women our age that most doctors don't look for. Such as cysts on the uterus or hormone imbalances. These things cause bleeding. (I wish I could remember the technical terms.)
Unfortunately, some doctors think everyone between the ages of 18 and 29 are screwing everything that moves. And dismiss bleeding as 'nothing.'
Two friends of mine experienced bleeding. Random. repeated bleeding. Also with some pain. One girl had minor pain. The otehr had major. Oen girl didn't feel well.
Both of them persisted in getting checked out. The first doctor told them it was nothing. After persisting with more doctors, my first friend found out she had a hormone imbalace that was fucking up her overies. At an early stage, it was just a pill to fix. Untreated, her condition might have lead to ovarian cysts. The second friend had abnormal cells on her inside and got them removed before they became a tumor. Both friends are much better now. No more bleeding.
SO PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE get a second opinion. There's also some great web sites and online forums for women's health. PLEASE check them out.
That goes for any other women out there. There's a some serious health risks to women that are not widely known. And some of them are amzingly common.
TheLady