I am forewarning you all;
this is going to be a very angry-venting post. This pertains to my “EX”
doctors, which yesterday once again re-convinced me and reassured me I am in
fact making the right decision to switch.
If you haven’t heard the story of my doctor dilemma you can find out all
the wonderful details in this post by clicking here.
As you all know, I have my
first appointment with my new gyn next week. I didn’t give much information to
them over the phone so right now they are under the impression “I just found
out I’m pregnant.” So, I requested my medical records from my previous gyn to
bring to my appointment next week (history and all testing done up to now.) I
go to the doctor’s office yesterday (I had an appointment with my primary care
provider) and my medical records were ready to pick up. As I am sitting there
waiting to be called, I open up the large manila envelope with all my records
and just start reading through to see what I was given. Half of the stuff is
abbreviated in doctor language and it hard to understand but for the most part
you get an idea of what everything is. Well, let me say those records sure did
reveal a lot of new and interesting things I did not know about my health.
It turns out I have a
small cyst on my right ovary. To me this is obviously shocking news… not even
the fact that I have a CYST but also the fact that this is how I am finding
out! This cyst has been found and known about since November… since before my
first prenatal appointment even. I am shocked… disgusted… and so angry beyond
words. There was a distinct paragraph written in full sentences, that I
recognized from my first prenatal appointment. The way Slocum Dickson runs
things is they do a summary of the appointment/patient, any concerns, complaints
or medical history discussed, they write up a small synopsis basically for that
day. I remember sitting in the office, towards the end of the appointment, and
she was typing this little summary. This was when she first mentioned there was
a small bleed in my uterus found in one of my ultrasounds (don’t remember if I
have mentioned this before, but they found a bleed, very small, no big deal
they said and would do an additional ultrasound later to see if it is getting
bigger or being absorbed) and as she told me about this bleed, thoroughly
discussed it with me, she started writing her little summary and I remember her
typing and saying out loud parts of what she was typing. In my medical records,
I received a copy of this synopsis, and see the very same summary from that
day, and in that summary is a statement about a cyst found on my ovary.
No one mentioned it to me
at ALL. I just… I don’t understand it. If I wouldn’t have received my medical
records would this have remained a secret? I just… my head doesn’t wrap around
this at all. Just like I don’t
understand how they could have let me walk around with 2 infections for a whole
month before telling me about it and putting me on treatment only then.
The other thing I found,
which is no big deal really, but once again they just decided to disclose this
information from me. The bleed I spoke of earlier, at my first appointment I
was told they ordered an additional ultrasound to check it out to see if it is
something serious or not and once again would tell me if they find something. I wanted to ask the doctor about the sonogram
(even though I assumed everything was ok since I never heard from them) but he
ran through my whole appointment in a matter of 10 minutes. The additional
ultrasound they did indicated there is still a bleed there. The bleed is a
little smaller than it was the first time (I had my primary care provider
digest all these medical records for me yesterday since he has access to them)
which is a good sign. He says that means it is still there, but it is being
absorbed. He said it takes about 3 months for it to be absorbed. Okay, maybe it’s
not a big deal, but telling me about this would be nice, ya know?
I started doing some
research on cysts and pregnancy. A lot of the sites say it’s no big deal if it’s
small, doctor’s just have to monitor it during pregnancy (monitor- HA.) Some
have had large ones and had to have them removed during pregnancy. Some had
ruptured ones which could stimulate miscarriage or early labor and of course
lots of pain. I will mention this to my new gyn next week at my appointment and
see what she says.
There really isn’t much
more to say, I am just in shock, confused and not pleased at all. I am once again
SO happy to be seeing another doctor. And don’t recommend anyone to go see Dr.
Schlair or Julia Ross in Slocum Dickson. As you can see, I have been TOTALLY
screwed over by them. Venting is done… for now ;)
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