Gyno rant!

[DivineMsDi]

I am so annoyed at my gyno's office. (I know, get in line, honey). I have been seeing them for 2 years for irregular periods. I used to be like clockwork. Now I have irregular and heavy flows every now and again. (I just turned 38 last week).

Last summer it was really bad. I went and saw a new gyno at the office. She seemed nice and the staff was gentle and personable. She tried a few medicines with me after the pap was normal. I do have simple hyperplasia (which I discovered is abnormal grown of the lining of the uterus). The medication she put me on was provera. We tried the pill but it made me sick, and I don't like anything that alters my body chemistry for b/control. Anyhow, all was fine after the provera and iron pill therapy. Periods normal. I felt great. I had a sono in September. No results were told to me. I was scheduled in Oct for a re-biopsy to check the lining. She tells me once I am in the room, no we will hold off for a few months, stay on medicine. I am a bit pissed off. You know we all hate the gyno and psyching myself to go through a biopsy all day was nerve wracking. She also mentions if my periods go screwy I can get a d and c any time (red flag goes up in my head).

Okay. So, I am doing fine in Nov. Dec and periods are normal. I find I am very sexual in January...surging hormones? Okay. Well, my biopsy re-do was scheduled for Feb. 9th. I also have a sono scheduled. I go to the office, the staff is rude. I sense something has changed here. I think okay, it is just the typical rude medical receptionist. I go for my sono. The technician finds something. She doesn't like me getting dressed so quickly and makes a comment.

I go back to the waiting room. Get called in at 5 or so for appointment. No one comes back to me for nearly 30 mind wracking minutes while I am butt naked on the chair. Finally gyno and rude nurse comes in to do biopsy. Mentions I have a cyst and it is large. I say, I am not getting surgery. She gets pissy. She says, well it is large, 6cm. I am pissed off. I say I don't want surgery. I am terrified of it. She does biopsy and it damn well hurts (no meds used). I get told by nurse it will bleed awhile.

The doctor says to me I have to have surgery if the biopsy shows anything. I say to her I am not happy about it. I am about at the end of my rope after waiting and being treated like an animal. She says U need blood work, but doesn't give me any prescription. Rude staff is ignoring me as I leave. I go out and call my husband on the cell phone. I get home and I am a nervous wreck since.

I find out later (thank you internet) cysts are very common. She didn't tell me that. She just pushes surgery all the time. I am annoyed because they did not tell me when I would get my results. I finally called today (Friday). Pissy nurse calls back and says "Didn't we JUST DO this?" I said to her, well no one told me anything. When will I get results? Why am I still bleeding? Is it my period (I was due). She also says I guess it is. I said what about this cyst? Can I go on with my life? Can I exercise? She says, yes, carry on as before. (she is half listening to me.).

I am in really good health for a "fat" person. I exercise 5 times a week and in the last year or so lost 20-25 lbs. (I was about 210 and now I am 180). I felt 100% before this damn gyn visit. Now I feel like cr@p. I know I have some sort cyst because I feel it. I also get twinges each month when I ovulate.

My gripe is my health care is not care at all. They don't seem to have any reason for my problems. What do you think I should do next? Go to my g p. for a physical and blood work? Get a new gyno? Get the surgery? Keep an eye on the cyst? (it is 2 inches by the way...thanks for the metric diagnosis doc, I guess we live in Europe). Thank you to all who read this rant! Any replies welcome. Thanks, Diane

[Shancopp]

I would get a second opinion or a new gyno all together. See what a second dr recommends. Good luck!

[turbob]

Cysts are funny things. Some will fill up and get big, and then go down. I had one fill up and then twist like a balloon neck and fall over- had to go to the er - it hurt like h*ll. My mom had one rupture. There are several different kinds, so I would find another doc. You MIGHT have to have surgery, but I wouldn't let any one rush me into it.

[Gumball1960]

Get a new doc ASAP. This one is supposed to be in the caring profession and isn't fulfilling that need.

[Kelsey1224]

Second opinion.

I would also confront the doctor and explain that your treatment was less than satisfactory and that the staff was rude.

Doctors are only practicing medicine, after all.

[AngelGrim]

Go talk to your gp and then tell them to refer you to another gyno, don't let them rush you into anything and don't allow them to treat you that way. You pay them for their services, not the other way around. We all need to start standing up for ourselves and tell all the doctors we are people not plants you can't just do what you want with us. I had a gyno that I listened too and here it is almost 15 years later and I am still messed up. Going to a new specialist, maybe we will get somewhere. I hope you get the treatment you need and deserve. ((((Hugs!!))))

[magicwoman19]

Did you know, every month when you ovualte your ovaries produce a cyst??? Some peoples are bigger than what they are suppose to be, (mine are) but they go away in a couple weeks. After my miscarriage, I went to my gyno for the yearly regular pap, and I had been having pain on my right side, thought maybe I have a UTI or something, come to find out it was a cyst the size of a quarter and it was because I had just ovulated. Everyone gets em, some are just bigger than others and some rupture.

[Willow]

I'm sorry they made you feel bad. I hate when health care professionals won't tell you anything. I've had my share of the gynecologist over the past couple of months. I just got Mirena fitted at the end of January. I'm not sure what to say about the cysts but I know that the twinges are normal. At least that is what I was told. I've been having them for years. lol They are uncomfortable and only last a few seconds usually but I was told that it's very common.

[alhambra]

I hope you feel better, I feel twinges on my right side almost every month, and I just had to change my gyn. because we switched to a new insurance and so when I went to see this new doctor I was going to ask him and while I'm laying down with my legs apart his cell phone rings and guess what he picks up the cell phone. I felt so uncomfortable and I got so upset I forgot to ask him about anything.

Gyn. offices can sometimes be very difficult to deal with.
If you dont like this doctor go for a second opinion and look for another doctor, the best is to ask around people that you know and see if the can recomend somebody

Good luck

[janelle]

My hubby works for two OB/GYNs and they really do want their offices to run smoothly that make the patient happy. They have had rude nurses and receptionists but the office staff tries to find out about the problems and fix them. Maybe if you talk to the office manager about how you were treated. Just tell her or him how you were kept waiting and not told much about anything and also rushed through.

Let me give you a hint on how to make your visits easier. When you call to make an appointment, tell the receptionist everything you are coming in for, and I mean everything. The doc schedules just enough time to take care of your questions and to examine what is bothering you. If you say, "oh by the way while I'm here can you look at this"? You will make the doctor's schedule go haywire. If enough patients do this during the day you will be waiting a really long time to see the doc in the waiting room. Doctors schedule just enough time to take care of each patient and then they have to go on to the next. They can get backed up very easily if you don't tell them about everything before you go in. They will take the time with you if you tell them you have five things to talk about instead of two.

The office managers are looking for these problems all the time and want to know about them. It's their job to keep the office running effeciently and the patients happy. Believe me they do want your business and depend on you telling others how nice your OB/GYN and her staff is. You are their bread and butter.

Saying that we all know there are just rude people in the world. Some have bad attitudes and they take the others in the office down as well. Just remember they are working for their pay in there and they are either good with people are they can be rotten with people. Different personalities.

You need to decide if you want to keep your doc and then you need to talk to the office manager about it or if you just want to go to another doc. Find one who has a good reputation for being good with people and has a smooth running office.