Hopelessly Screwed Girl

[judecorp]

My doctor's office is seriously getting on my nerves. I think they are intentionally trying to mess with me. I called the real secretary (not the covering secretary from Monday) and left a message on her voicemail saying that I wasn't sure if I was supposed to call her or not, but that the covering secretary on Monday told me that the imaging center was all booked for HSGs this month and I wanted to know if there was a place I could be fit in. I didn't receive a call back.

Then at around noontime when I was walking out of a home visit, I received a call from another office confirming my HSG for tomorrow at 12:30pm. I was like, "Umm, I don't have an HSG tomorrow afternoon," and the receptionist-person assured me that I did, that the appointment was made at 11:00 this morning. AND NO ONE TOLD ME. So I called the secretary back and told her that I found all of this very confusing and that I have been getting mixed messages for several days and I was quite upset. She was very snooty to me and told me that she "clearly explained everything I was confused about" and she "couldn't understand why I was upset since I was going to have my HSG this month." I was like, "Look, lady, I just got a phone call confirming an appointment I didn't even make, and it's for /tomorrow/." And she said, "Actually, I have to wait until later this afternoon to actually confirm with the imaging center because their computers are down," to which I replied, "Please call me before 4:00pm because I need someone to cover my classroom tomorrow," when what I really wanted to say was, "Are you fecking KIDDING me, lady? And you WONDER why I am upset?"

I swear to Maude, this whole HSG thing has become the world's biggest clusterf*ck. So now I had to scramble to find some last-minute coverage for the end of my playgroup and I need to cancel MORE home visits, and Jen had to work out some sort of last-minute deal with her boss so that she could take some time off to meet me there. The secretary scoffed at me when I said I was concerned that I didn't have someone to come with me and she was snarky about how they "never say that you need to have someone with you" even though almost everyone I know who has had one has said, "Have someone with you so you don't have to try to drive home right after."

I am starting to majorly hate my doctor's office.

Comments

[bec4joy.livejournal.com]

Jude,

All I can say is sorry.. I am so sorry to hear all these obstacles you have to jump through.. Such an anoyance. grr.. I want to smack your drs. If I smack yours, can you KILL mine?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Why do you want to kill your doctor? I will totally take him/her down!

[bec4joy.livejournal.com]

All of my wrist issues. The Dr are idiots...

They send me to a pain specialist for my wrists.. and she refuses to give me pain meds so I can sleep at night.. and then She sends me to a physical therapist to follup on my EMG test.. which was pointless because she couldnt do anything.. Which was normal.. So since I refused to go to the only medaical dr in the network.. She sends me to a pyscologist.. Yea.. a shrink who helps manage the pain..

HELLO, I dont need help managing it I need help with the pain.. Ugh.. I hate them.. I hate them hate them.. And it is only getting worse.. Now it is effecting my Left arm..

Will this ever stop??? for us both

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that sounds awful! I hate when doctors think they are trying to "help" you and only make you feel dumb or whatever. Grrrr. So how does the pain med thing fit into the TTC plan? Are you guys still planning on trying?

[bec4joy.livejournal.com]

They arent stopping us that is for sure.. We are going forward as planned.. first day of clomid was today.. So hopefully in 11 days we will be trying again..

The shrink told me to go back to my family dr. for furter assistance.. What that is going to do Who KNOWS.. But we are going waste another 15 bucks for him to refer me to someone else..

Whatever I guess..
I want to stop taking the neurotin, but it takes enough of the edge off at work.. so I keep taking it.. But I look like fruit cake.. both wrists wraped

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Neurontin is a Category C drug, which means only use during pregnancy if it is VERY necessary... so I would be careful with that and any pain meds you might be taking. Just looking out for you!

I'm sorry about your wrists. :(

[rockymtnhigh.livejournal.com]

Bec's got an appointment with the regular doctor on Monday to see what he would want to do. Asking about the Neurontin is on the list (well, it is now.. thanks for the info. I seem to remember reading that somewhere, and if I remember correctly, she stopped taking it for the first two week wait.) Since it's technically a seizure medicine (which Becca doesn't have any risk of) and it's not working anyway, I don't think she'll mind giving it up. We'll just have to see if she can stop cold turkey or have to step it down.


Alrighty, time to get productive. Or at least get showered.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Good luck with all of that with the doctor. I know that there are risks with all of the seizure meds but if a pregnant woman is having seizures then it can be worth the risk. But if she's not taking it to prevent seizures and if it's not even really working much, hopefully they can find something else that works better and is more safe? Yuck, that sucks - totally thinking of you guys.

[sassyjenski.livejournal.com]

YOU DEFINITELY NEED SOMEONE TO DRIVE YOU HOME!!!

they described it to me as "discomfort", so i drove myself. whoops.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember you telling me that. It was probably the first thing you ever said to me, and I've been terrified ever since. (Eep.)

I'm wondering if I'm going to be able to work at all after the procedure. I know I have to cancel my 1:15 home visit, but what about my 2:30? My 4:00? Ugh.

[sassyjenski.livejournal.com]

i went home and laid in bed the rest of the day.

however, i AM a big, big wimp.

don't be terrified - it's totally horrible and painful, but it's also the procedure i liked best, because it's one of the few tests that give definitive results with stuff you can actually fix AND it gives you about a 3 month boost in your fertility, since it "cleans the pipes" a bit.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard about the "pipe cleaning" and am excited about that, even though we will lose one month of benefit by not being able to DO anything. (Yuck.) I just keep telling myself that even if it's the worst 5 minutes of my life, it's still just 5 minutes. I'm just paranoid that I will find out that I have no fallopian tubes or something, or that I will go into kidney failure because I took Metformin this morning.

I don't like this "last minute" crap.

[sassyjenski.livejournal.com]

if you didn't have tubes, you'd know!

but yeah, the metformin issue/last minute shit really sucks.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

How would I know? I mean, if I didn't have tubes, would I feel it? I know nothing about this.

So I have tubes. I saw them. Well, I saw one. The other was hiding apparently. That does not make me feel good.

I also found out that my uterus is tipped down. Weird.

[sassyjenski.livejournal.com]

They would have not seen them on an ultrasound.

my uterus is tipped, too. ha! when they told me, along with everything else, i was like, "well, of course it's tipped! it's just lying there, DRUNKENLY. no wonder it's not doing its job!"

and the tingle is AWESOME.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I should have KNOWN my uterus was drinking on the job. It's as bad as my CATS, never getting any work done!

I think you should go buy the tingle. I don't really like tingle so I can't comment on its awesomeness, but if you say so, I believe you.

[sassyjenski.livejournal.com]

you, know, i've never liked minty stuff outside of dental care, but this stuff is...different. it's soooo awesome.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

See? You're hooked. FEED THE ADDICTION.

[estrange.livejournal.com]

Don't you love doctor offices?!? Look at it this way though, you more than likely get your HSG tomorrow! So that means less waiting for you to try! So even though it's a complete pain it really is good news.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, unless something ELSE ridiculous happens, I will have my HSG tomorrow. I am not excited about this AT ALL except that it will be done.

But now I'm worried because you're supposed to stop taking Metformin 48 hours before any procedure with contrast dye (like an HSG) and I took mine this morning because I didn't know I would be having an HSG tomorrow.

[estrange.livejournal.com]

What is an HSG? I don't know.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

A hysterosalpingogram. It's when they stick a catheter up your hoo-hah and inject dye into your uterus so that it spurts out your fallopian tubes. That way they can check and see if your tubes are blocked.

[estrange.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that sounds horrible.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not the coolest thing ever. You are lucky that you haven't had to have one - it's one of the most common infertility tests out there!

[siercia]

So, I didn't know what an HSG is. SO I looked it up. And holy jesus, how could they possibly think you wouldnt need someone to drive you home? I could see how you /might/ not (if you were, say, Wonder Woman) but damn!

I'm sorry your doctor's office is jerking you around. Seems to be quite a week for it. But, I hope things go well tomorrow.

*HUG*

[siercia]

Oh, and if anything should happen and Jen not be able to meet you, and you need a ride or anything, call me.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess I'm going to drive up there and Jen is going to meet me by T. Then she is going to bring me home and go back to work and then to art class. Hopefully it's not too bad and I can do some home visits afterward, because I would hate to cancel all the same people 2 weeks in a row.

Thanks for offering, though.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well I guess it's not ALWAYS terrible for everyone, but there are enough people that have had a lot of pain and stuff so the idea of driving through boston/roxbury traffic after all of that is not terribly appealing. And I hate that I kind of got the brush off about it - this is the second time. When I first asked the doctor (to his face, not on the phone) about the pain, he said "It's not that bad, very mild." I said, "You've never had one." And he got SO mad at me!

Bleh.

[siercia]

Heh.

That reminds me of when I had my iud put in. My doc ( a woman, no less) told me that I would feel a "slight pinch" when she pushed it in. What I felt was a pain that shot from my hoo-ha through to the top of my head, and felt like it would blow me backwards off the table into the wall.

A slight pinch, my ass.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

UGH. Yeah, they told a friend of mine that she would have "some discomfort" for her HSG - and she ended up in bed for the rest of the day. Doctors lie. I guess they think it's helpful for you to not anticipate the pain... but I think it's wrong to lie.

I didn't know you have an IUD. How do you like it?

[siercia]

I don't know if she was lying or not - afterward, she said that she's never had a patient react the way I did (another lie perhaps?). I should have known better though - I find pap smears excruciating, and most people I know don't find them painul, so much as just unpleasant.

I really like the iud - have had no problems with it. The only thing I don't like is that it makes me have pretty much no period, and while there's one part of me that thinks tat rocks, there's another that isn't really keen on tinkering with my body chemistry that much.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh, well maybe I will give your doctor the benefit of the doubt. Since I don't know her. ;)

I didn't know the IUD eats your cycles... I always thought it wouldn't do that since it's non-hormonal. Then again, I don't know much about IUDs at all. How long can you leave it there? Do you have to do anything special ever? I am so nosey about your hoo-hah.

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

What a pain in the ass. Seriously. They seem disorganized and insensitive.





Um, but... if you get the HSG does that mean you will do a cycle soon?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, it's only CD5 for me right now. So tomorrow I will have the HSG and then I will wait the 30 or so more days until AF comes. THEN we can start a new cycle... provided that everything (all the tests) comes out okay and insurance agrees to pay.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

Vogon would make a snarky comment about their ineffective use of practice management software.

I am sorry they're treating you like this and I hope it gets better.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I am just so thoroughly frustrated with them. Some of them are just so insensitive. I know this is their line of work and it's not personal to them, but hello, these are people's lives! How can someone NOT be upset and confused when they receive a confirmation call for an appointment they DID NOT SCHEDULE and hadn't heard anything about? Argh.

Thanks. :)

[jadefu.livejournal.com]

You're much more controlled then me. I think I might have said "Look, lady, you're making me really want to poke someone's eyes out with a dull ice pick because of this shit you're pulling."

But then, I'm cranky. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I like you when you're cranky. :) And I wasn't that controlled... I was probably snippy, too.

[sassywoman.livejournal.com]

I guess you must have really breathed some hell and fury this morning for them to put you on the schedule. Look at it this way, it will be done and your pipes will be like new!
Seriously Jude, take 4 advil or motrin. I only took two and the cramping after my HSG was induced by the devil. I drove myself home but we only live 5 minutes from our clinic.
I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. :)))

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why they did it. I wasn't nasty on my original message or anything (I didn't get to talk to a person, just voicemail) but I did say I didn't want to wait another cycle... so I guess it worked. I don't know. I don't know how it could be booked one day and then the next day there was an opening? Weird.

I was told to take 3 but I took 4. ;) And it was okay during the procedure but I had some amazing cramps as soon as it was time to get off the table. Nasty... and every bump in the road was certainly more noticeable. But by 1:45 pm or so I felt pretty normal. I had a little bleeding but it seems to have completely gone away. And I haven't lost much dye, either.

[lunamoonwmn01.livejournal.com]

Bastards! xoxo I hope it goes well. I know quite a few people who said it wasn't horrible. It seems to be worse for those who they find have tube problems.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

It wasn't horrible. But it wasn't that great, either. I think I would be more chipper about it if I had some sort of conclusive or less vague results. The whole "we're sure you're fine but couldn't really tell" bit doesn't sit well with me.

[aminahfiddler.livejournal.com]

Just came to your site to see what happened.. So I guess you're having the HSG today... Hmmm soon.

My thoughts are with you!!!

Oh yea, If you don't mind, I'm adding you as a friend. That way I don't miss the BFP when it happens!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Awwwh, that's sweet of you to check up on me. :) Add away. I like new friends.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

I am starting to majorly hate your doctor's office, too.

Why was she so snooty. I hate snooty receptionists.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Snooty people are NOT NICE! I want everyone to be nice!

[ladyoracle.livejournal.com]

What an awful secretary.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Let's take her down.

(Kidding.)