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Well, I think the endocrinologist said the appropriate thing. They are not very prepared to follow a heavy period and all that it could entail.
I am sorry your insurance carrier is not up to date. As I understand your email, you are calling the gyn docs on their preferred provider list.
I am not sure how long you have been without a gynecologist since yours retired, but I would start with your primary care doc. Everything I have to say, depends very much on the amount of bleeding you are having.It is Friday night. and we are moving into a weekend, which is a lousy time to have any luck with your quest of locating a gynecologist, even he/she were a preferred provider. I am thinking you should call your primary care doc, who, of course will not be there, but someone is on call for the weekend.
If you are bleeding a lot, (usually measured by the # of pads you use and soak up in an hour,) you could go to the on-call doc for your primary physician. Give them a good history (how many pads an hour, is this normal for you, has it happened before, and anything else you can say that is relevant to your gyn history.) They could do a lab, get a hematocrit and a hemoglobin, take your blood pressure and pulse, and see where you stand. If you are beginning to have a problem, they might call in a gynecologist who is on call.Write back to say what you think of this plan, and any other questions you have. I am not a doc, but I am thinking
that it has been a frustrating day for you, that you might now feel well, so I am suggesting a plan that may make sense to you and keep you safe.Lots of women do not have a gynecologist, and have all their gynecological care done by their primary care doc.
Then if things get more complicated, they refer to a gyneologist.If you are are bleeding a lot, beginning to feel weak or faint, if your pulse is really fast, go to an emergency room in the near future tonight. If you have equipment at home to take your blood pressure, do that, and if your pressure is going down, and your pulse is going up, go to an ER now.
I feel fine otherwise. My GP is open tomorrow. I am going to call when they open. Hope this is nothing serious.
I called my endo since I’m having a very prolonged period. He told me he was going to run a few tests.
The only thing he tested were my levels. They are all still normal. He also more or less gave me the message "all I treat is your thyroid."
Second gripe: my dumb insurance carrier has NOT got their physican database up to date. I am up to Call #8 of gyns in the network and the docs I called are retired, no longer with the practice, the number is disconnected or the practice no longer exists. (my last gyn retired not long ago and now I’ve developed a problem).
Next I’ll see if my GP can handle this for me.
how is the looking for new ins. going?
I updated that info, I think: they extended the subsidy so I am okay for awhile.
What a lousy night — I feel crummy and I needed a friendly voice to talk to. Positively nobody is around at all.
I still am having that problem. I can’t see my GP until Monday and I still don’t believe that a website can be that out of date for a list of physicians. I guess they don’t care about keeping it current. Or they don’t do some sort of survey to find out Is the doc still in the specialty he or she says he is?
sorry to hear about the dr and list.
I would keep looking for ins. while your subsidy is still intact. it takes a while to find a good ins. company. we have private ins now and it wasn’t easy but it had to be done.
Also not sure if the subsidy is through welfare or not but can’t you go on welfare and get health ins through them. I know a few people here that have that in nj.It would be even nicer if I could be hired somewhere full time and get health insurance through that employer.
Apparently everything changes once you are past a certain age: ageism exists. And apparently that’s where it’s at when I go on an interview.
Im kept anywhere from 7 to 13 minutes and am asked nothing relevant. I get what is more or less a cue card interview; they ask me one or 2 token questions like "Can you use Excel?" or "you’re fine working near a noisy shop with smokers?" and after that the interview is over.
They don’t even want to know why I am no longer employed by my last company. I am asked nothing about my skill set or what I did at each one of my jobs.
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