I don't know about you, but hearing a doctor say, "Oh my, you are in trouble." while palpitating your abdomen, is definitely on my top 10 list of things I do not want to hear.
I walked in to the newly expanded clinic because menopause is kicking my butt, DH is freaking out about it, and I have developed a hard swelling where my internal girly parts are. I walked out with three pages of lab orders, 4 procedure orders (two ultrasounds, a mammogram and a chest x-ray), a follow-up visit in a week (the labs and stuff have to be done before then), and being informed that they are scheduling me an appointment at Roswell Park
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No space aliens are involved) and will call when they have it.
Apparently the hard swelling is a big old abdominal mass.
The appointment at Roswell is not anything to get up about. It is just that they tried to make me an appointment with every gynecologist in three counties but nobody would touch me. Either because there were insurance conflicts, or because they would not take a brand new patient that has an abdominal mass. So they said the heck with it, and are sending me straight to the big guns. In all likelihood it is either another ovarian cyst run amok because of the hormonal changes, or possibly the small fibroids they found last time I had such a cyst that have gone gargantuan for the same reason. Besides as I told DH to calm him, 80 percent of the time an oncologist is the person you see who tells you that there is no big problem.
Dang, I bet I have to buy new jewelry for my "lower" piercing. It is really really hard to take a capture bead ring out of such a place without wrecking the ring. *grump*
He said what???? I'm pretty sure he'll never get an award for outstanding bedside manner. Geez!
I'm glad you're being optimistic about all of this. I'm sure you're right that it's nothing to be overly concerned about, but it's good to get it checked anyway. DH's tend to get more freaked out than we do, don't they?
I think you send the doc to Polly's gators. I have found generally docs are looking to make a car payment with hysterectomies and such at the drop of a hat. So many women have cysts and or fibroids and the docs seem to take advantage of that as an option to make a few dollars off of the situation. Hopefully that is what is going on with you NM. Good luck with the testing. I am sending thoughts for a good and sooner than later resolution to your health stuff. So far as the jewelry goes I am no help there either. Hugs, Taria
...or do you just beat the doctor?
I don't know about you, but hearing a doctor say, "Oh my, you are in trouble." while palpitating your abdomen, is definitely on my top 10 list of things I do not want to hear.
I walked in to the newly expanded clinic because menopause is kicking my butt, DH is freaking out about it, and I have developed a hard swelling where my internal girly parts are. I walked out with three pages of lab orders, 4 procedure orders (two ultrasounds, a mammogram and a chest x-ray), a follow-up visit in a week (the labs and stuff have to be done before then), and being informed that they are scheduling me an appointment at Roswell Park
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No space aliens are involved) and will callwhen they have it.
Apparently the hard swelling is a big old abdominal mass.
The appointment at Roswell is not anything to get up about. It is just that they tried to make me an appointment with every gynecologist in three counties but nobody would touch me. Either because there were insurance conflicts, or because they would not take a brand new patient that has an abdominal mass. So they said the heck with it, and are sending me straight to the big guns. In all likelihood it is either another ovarian cyst run amok because of the hormonal changes, or possibly the small fibroids they found last time I had such a cyst that have gone gargantuan for the same reason. Besides as I told DH to calm him, 80 percent of the time an oncologist is the person you see who tells you that there is no big problem.
Dang, I bet I have to buy new jewelry for my "lower" piercing. It is really really hard to take a capture bead ring out of such a place without wrecking the ring. *grump*
I've heard 'H'm... I'm not happy with this, so I'm sending you for further investigation. It's probably nothing to worry about, but we'd better make sure' when I found the breast lump. It wasn't, but I had an anxious Christmas! If my doc says that sort of thing, you sit up and pay attention, because he's lovely really.
Well, good that they are investigation.
Here it can be a bit of a postcode lottery where they send you, but when they thought the breast lump might be serious, the doc said that wherever was best would be where he'd send me, even as far as Birmingham!
I found mine very reassuring and very kind.
I only have ears pierced, and that was bad enough. Not doing anything else.
Good luck with it all: we will all be thinking of you.
Thanks for telling us -good thoughts headed your way. Although I'm sure you're right and it's "just" a cyst. Still, these things can take up too much space and push where you don't want them to.
I hate doctors. There, I've said it. I'm so close to totally giving up on W= estern Medicine, rude doctors and ruder nurses ... Russ is gonna have to dr= ag me to go back to any of them unless I'm bleeding or unconscious.=20
NM, you are already the recipient of my prayers and strong thoughts and whi= te light. I will accept that you are right, and it's good that you're going= straight to someone with enough sense not to blurt out something stupid wh= ilst palpitating a person's stomach. What a jerk. What a bum. No, don't giv= e him to Polly's crocs. What did the poor crocs ever do to deserve a nasty = meal like that?=20
Please let us know the minute you get information. In the meantime, I'll ke= ep up the good stuff for you. And will spare a minute or two for sympathy f= or the piercing jewelry. My ears were traumatic enough, I won't even get wa= xed, my 'lower parts' are mostly free of embellishing and primping and I ho= pe they stay that way. However, I'm glad to know you are truly the free spi= rit you seem to be. :) Hang in there girl. You're being prayed for and that= 's serious stuff.
Gonna try to cram this all into one post instead of going all hodge podge through the thread.
First off hugs to everybody for the thoughts and wishes!
Miz Polly? Do the gators like East Indian appetizers? The doctor in question is a teeny tiny (had to stand on a stool to reach me on the exam table tiny) East Indian lady. Though maybe I had ought to keep her, less than wonderful bedside manner and all. I had a heck of a time finding a local doctor since the hospital (now a for profit enterprise) closed all of their clinics. This new expanded clinic is a response from The Resource Center (
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)to those closings so they can serve more of the general public.And hey, on my very first visit I actually saw a real doctor, had a much more thorough medical history taken than at the other clinic, and they at least acted like they were actually listening to me instead of patronizing me. I only ever got that from Doctor Hottie and Doctor Unpronounceably Eastern European before this. So far as everything else, there are far too many common and pretty benign explanations for everything to even think about getting my knickers in a twist just yet. I think my mom dying so recently is what has DH in a half a panic. The main thing that bugs me right now is my cycle being really messed up, very long and beyond extremely heavy well into large animal sacrifice heavy. Makes me wonder if it might be something so simple as the pipes being clogged, I do have that clotting disorder from the mutation after all. Especially since the hard bits only seem to get bigger during my cycle.
Roberta, I am totally at the discomfort point from things being pushed about inside me. If I bend the wrong way it can be rather painful too. I am very much hoping this can be handled quickly. Things have gone from a bit of a tough belly to feeling like I am storing big honking rocks over the course of about three cycles. I absolutely shudder to think where I am going to be after another one.
Sunny I feel much the same way about ERs, and the previous clinic. Get in, never see a doctor, get nothing but poor behavior out of nine tenths of the people you encounter, sit in an exam room forever (in the case of The ER I laid on an exam table writhing in pain for more than six hours one time), and then generally don't get treated for what you are there for. I have had a PA lecture me on the importance of losing weight and quitting smoking while I was sitting on an exam table with pus running out of an ear, and then never give me so much as advice for the infection. Another time I went in for the results of a Glucose Tolerance test and had the NP lecture me on the evils of steroids because he found out I lifted weights. He totally forgot about my test results and I had to flag down a passing nurse to get them. Really some of these people need to be spanked once a week while being admonished to remember what the heck their job actually is.
So far as the jewelry it is replaceable. More of an annoyance than anything. If I am lucky they won't fuss about it. Actually there is no reason that they should, unless they want to do an MR or something someplace along the way. Some medical people are totally freaked by piercings though, and make you take your jewelry out regardless of whether they actually need you to or not.
Thinking of you Nightmist and hoping for the best for you. We are of a sililar age but so far I don't have any of the problems that you do. I just hope that it stays that way.
I did have a fibroid but that was during my first pregnancy and must have disappeared soon after as it has never troubled me since. Is your jewerly the same as the type used in a targus that need the pliers to get it out?
Dee in Oz
"NightMist" wrote > Gonna try to cram this all into one post instead of going all hodge podge
Oh. Well, now. That's different. Since your dr is a tiny East Indian, I forgive the "oh my, you are in trouble" unfortunate remark. I was picturing a snarky big ghoul. NM, you damn Skippy are in trouble. My doctor let me suffer with much the same symptoms as your for years including I weighed 83 pounds and was dangerously anemic. He didn't want me to have a hysterectomy just in case we might have more children. I didn't want more children. I needed my life back. Long story short - the 'keep all your parts or die trying' doctor died. The next one swiftly took care of me. I'm betting that Roswell will get you fixed and feeling good in just no time. From my heart to God's ears, Polly
I really like tragus piercings, and if I weren't so prone to swimmer's ear I would have mine done. A piercing in an area already prone to infection is just asking for trouble though. For those who are wondering, the tragus is that pointy bit right in front of your ear canal.
A capture (or captive) bead ring is a ring with a gap and there is a bead in the gap. The bead is held in place by the pressure of the ring pressing on it. You need pliers, preferably specialty pliers just for opening or closing capture bead rings though needle nose will work in a pinch, to open or close the ring. I have been thinking on this. It is enough of a pain in the neck that If I have to remove it for any sort of thing they want to do, I will probably go to the tattoo parlor and have them do it. I'll bet that the guy or girl, whichever is in, at the tattoo shop will do it for free or cheap, and put in an easily removable non-metallic retainer for me. I am gonna give them a call and ask so I know for sure. I'll bet they will autoclave my current jewelry inexpensively too. It is always good to have such things properly cleaned and sterilized when you can.
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