obgyn info

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I can't stress highly enough, to let your friend know she needs to get

another opinion.

 

I was going thru very similar conditions, and the last 2 years of my

suffering--were plain and simply--hell. I was totally bed ridden for

the length of my bleeding--any time I sat up....yep--rather

uncomfortable, to say the least.

 

The dr I had been seeing refused to give me a referal to an obgyn--and

given my history---it was warrented. His refusal was based on the

fact I was recieving welfare at the time.

 

By the time my disability started, and I was able to be seen by obgyn

specialists at the VA--I had a very rare form of cancer called:

Leiomyoscarcoma--which in most cases, is fatal.

 

When undergoing a required ultrasound prior to my surgery, the teck

called the radiologist over to look at what he was finding.

 

Turned out I had fibroids as large as a man's fist--which this guy

told me, not to worry--just run of the mill fibroids.

 

Gee, but I wasn't amused when I found out those were the ones that had

turned cancerous.

 

My surgery was posponed a month, as I was so severely enemic by that

time, they said they'd never get me off the operating table. It took

every bit of that 4 weeks to bring my iron level up to the minimum

required for surgery. I ate as much red meat, spinich & broccoli as I

could stand--and took enough iron suppliments to knock down a horse.

 

This is one thing that men just don't understand. I had a very

GRAPHIC explanation of my monthly 'experience' ready to relate to a

male dr, if that's whom I got as my dr at the va. Believe me, it was

enough to turn most men's guts hearing the tale. Thank god I got a

woman dr instead--who looked at my file and said--you need a

hystorectomy---now!

 

Please--urge your friend to get another opinion--if she can find a

woman dr who'll see her--have her do it!

 

goody

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Goody wrote:

 

<The dr I had been seeing refused to give me a referal to an obgyn--and

given my history---it was warrented. His refusal was based on the

fact I was recieving welfare at the time.>

 

I will say an extra prayer of thanks for being in Canada, where socialized

medicine is far from perfect, but at least we have it.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

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