emmapetty
Going for Goal!
Well, what an eventful morning! I hardly slept a wink thinking about my gynaecology appointment today - only to get in the car and re-read the letter (yep, left to last min, same as everything else) and my appointment is Thursday, not today :sigh:
I haven't been to gynaecology for a loooong time. I haven't had much luck with Dr's/Consultants in the past.
From the top:
When I was 15 I was diagnosed with PCOS. After battling my my GP and being told "You're only young, your periods will soon start" Dr would say - "They have started, but they have stopped" I would say. Eventually, I was referred to the hospital, had the scans and blood tests to be told I had PCOS and my Androgen levels were very high. The Dr prescribed me 'Dianete' pills (taken the same as contraceptive pill)
I had monthly periods, my acne and hair growth settled down. BONUS!
Then I moved to Portsmouth, some 200 miles away...
I signed to a Dr surgery and went for my usual perscription. The Dr was very firm, questioning why I took the dianete, and took me off them saying that they are now off the market (which they are now because I looked into it) and he referred me to the hospital in Portsmouth as he was unsure what medication to replace the dianete with.
I went to the hospital and saw the consultant, who abruptly told me "I can't do anything for you until you loose 'all that' weight " something that stuck with me for a long time. So off I went home in teaars with no new tablets, but knowing that I had to loose 'all that' weight. :cry::cry::cry:
2 years later I moved to Bristol (home sweet home) and have the best GP I have ever had. She was the lady who told me about CD
Again, she is reluctant to prescribe anything to me but referred my to the hospital gynaecology department.
Me and HB are hoping to start 'trying' for our first addition to make a family D !) and obviously we want to get this sorted.
Since loosing weight my periods have been showing, instead of being non existent, so I know that I am ovulating. Even if they are light and last 2 days (actually my last period was horrendous, heavy and painful) :cry:
My Mum told me that I should be asking lots of questions - yet she failed to come up with any ideas of what I should be asking - and got quite cross with me on the phone "what a waste of the consultants time Emma, you haven't got a bl**dy clue what to ask, I should be coming with you but you wont admit it"
Now when I first told my Mum I was going to hopefully get some 'answers' (wrong choice of words now methinks) from the gynaecologist, she was insistent she was to come with me - because she was the one who initially took me to the Dr's with the problems I was having. It took me a long time to convince her that me and Simon (HB) would like to do this together 'alone', as we see it as quite a private thing and personal to just me and him.
Me and Simon decided to tell both our 'Parents' (which I regret now ) that once I have lost my weight we plan to try for a baby. Since then my Mum has gone absolutely crazy, telling all my family that she is going to be a Grandma soon. she has even bought baby clothes. My Mum actually suffers from mental health issues, and gets very obsessive about things at times, but can also 'turn' and be very nasty (she's a cross between Jean from Eastenders and Cruella De Ville) I find it hard at the best of times to cope with her. I stopped telling her things, and she became extremely jealous and angry, treated me terribly (nearly ruined my wedding by 'cancelling' my chosen Bridesmaid dresses, because she didn't like them) and I just couldn't cope anymore, so decided to have a 'heart to heart' and told her I wouldn't keep things from her anymore. Hence why we told her about our 'baby plan'.
But that isn't my worry. (Sorry I waffled on about my Mum!) Will I be wasting the gynaecologist's time? I basically just want to say, look I've lost 5 stone since I last saw a gynaecologist and I'm still planning to loose more. I want children - help me" (you get the jist)... Should I write questions down to take with me?
Confused, stressed and anxious, I hope someone will be able to help
Big Hugs,
Em x x x
I haven't been to gynaecology for a loooong time. I haven't had much luck with Dr's/Consultants in the past.
From the top:
When I was 15 I was diagnosed with PCOS. After battling my my GP and being told "You're only young, your periods will soon start" Dr would say - "They have started, but they have stopped" I would say. Eventually, I was referred to the hospital, had the scans and blood tests to be told I had PCOS and my Androgen levels were very high. The Dr prescribed me 'Dianete' pills (taken the same as contraceptive pill)
I had monthly periods, my acne and hair growth settled down. BONUS!
Then I moved to Portsmouth, some 200 miles away...
I signed to a Dr surgery and went for my usual perscription. The Dr was very firm, questioning why I took the dianete, and took me off them saying that they are now off the market (which they are now because I looked into it) and he referred me to the hospital in Portsmouth as he was unsure what medication to replace the dianete with.
I went to the hospital and saw the consultant, who abruptly told me "I can't do anything for you until you loose 'all that' weight " something that stuck with me for a long time. So off I went home in teaars with no new tablets, but knowing that I had to loose 'all that' weight. :cry::cry::cry:
2 years later I moved to Bristol (home sweet home) and have the best GP I have ever had. She was the lady who told me about CD
Again, she is reluctant to prescribe anything to me but referred my to the hospital gynaecology department.
Me and HB are hoping to start 'trying' for our first addition to make a family D !) and obviously we want to get this sorted.
Since loosing weight my periods have been showing, instead of being non existent, so I know that I am ovulating. Even if they are light and last 2 days (actually my last period was horrendous, heavy and painful) :cry:
My Mum told me that I should be asking lots of questions - yet she failed to come up with any ideas of what I should be asking - and got quite cross with me on the phone "what a waste of the consultants time Emma, you haven't got a bl**dy clue what to ask, I should be coming with you but you wont admit it"
Now when I first told my Mum I was going to hopefully get some 'answers' (wrong choice of words now methinks) from the gynaecologist, she was insistent she was to come with me - because she was the one who initially took me to the Dr's with the problems I was having. It took me a long time to convince her that me and Simon (HB) would like to do this together 'alone', as we see it as quite a private thing and personal to just me and him.
Me and Simon decided to tell both our 'Parents' (which I regret now ) that once I have lost my weight we plan to try for a baby. Since then my Mum has gone absolutely crazy, telling all my family that she is going to be a Grandma soon. she has even bought baby clothes. My Mum actually suffers from mental health issues, and gets very obsessive about things at times, but can also 'turn' and be very nasty (she's a cross between Jean from Eastenders and Cruella De Ville) I find it hard at the best of times to cope with her. I stopped telling her things, and she became extremely jealous and angry, treated me terribly (nearly ruined my wedding by 'cancelling' my chosen Bridesmaid dresses, because she didn't like them) and I just couldn't cope anymore, so decided to have a 'heart to heart' and told her I wouldn't keep things from her anymore. Hence why we told her about our 'baby plan'.
But that isn't my worry. (Sorry I waffled on about my Mum!) Will I be wasting the gynaecologist's time? I basically just want to say, look I've lost 5 stone since I last saw a gynaecologist and I'm still planning to loose more. I want children - help me" (you get the jist)... Should I write questions down to take with me?
Confused, stressed and anxious, I hope someone will be able to help
Big Hugs,
Em x x x