1787Essure Follow Up

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Dec. 17, 2003

 

 

I went in this morning for my (last?) depo shot & followup to my
Essure procedure.

The followup was unhelpful--none of the surgery notes & stuff from
Bailey Square (where the procedure was done) had been sent to the
Dr's office to go into my file. So, here I am wanting to know about
the cyst he mentioned in the recovery room, and he didn't remember
enough to tell me anything about it and didn't have the notes. He
told one of his staff to call Bailey Square "again". I was annoyed. I
suspect this won't be an "again," I suspect he didn't ever ask for
them in the first place. Yes, of course B.S. should have sent them
without having to be asked. BUT. That's not the point.

What was the purpose of him even asking me if I had questions if he
wasn't prepared to answer them? That sort of smug, patriarchal "Oh,
the dumb little girl won't ask me anything hard" attitude really
peeves me. And I didn't care for the kind of pricklyness that arose
from him being made to feel stupid and incompetent because he didnt'
have the records and I was asking him questions he didn't know the
answers to. Nobody likes feeling stupid. But it seems to be really
bad when a man is made to feel stupid by a woman, or when a
professional is made to feel incompetent in his field by a layperson.
I sympathize, but I also realize that a little more attention to
detail from him and his staff could have saved him some discomfort &
helped me find out what I needed to know.

And I don't feel like he listened to me at all when I told him about
the wierd 'side stitch' feeling the first time I had sex after the
procedure, or the spotting & bloody stringy thing I saw in the potty.
He didn't even say "oh, that's nice" when I talked about it, just
kept on with the chart shuffling & putting on gloves & such.

So, the next step is in my court: I have to call and make an
appointment for an X-ray (Fluoroscopy, actually, I think) of my
uterus & tubes & make sure they know it's an Essure follow up and not
a "why can't I get knocked up?" visit, because apparently this
procedure, before Essure, was only used to check for tube blockages
that women didn't want.

When they see unwillingly infertile women, they shoot the radioactive
dye REAL HARD up into their uterus, to help clear out those tubes. I
definitely don't want that kind of roto-rooter treatment when they're
checking up on my springies.

For some reason, I feel like womens' health care is
still somewhere in the 50's. Or maybe it's just my doctor. *sigh*