On Thursday morning, I went for a blood pregnancy test. Unfortunately, it was not nurse Heather who drew my blood. I knew with my insurance, they have to send my blood work out to a lab and wait for the result until the following day. I thought "OK. Friday afternoon then." Well, Friday afternoon came and almost went. At 4:30 pm, I couldn't wait any more, so I called the office. When I told the receptionist that I was there on Thursday for a blood pregnancy test, she gave the phone to the nurse from the day before. She said "Your test result was negative." She then sounded like she was ending the conversation, so I had to say "Excuse me. Yes, I already knew the result would be negative, but I thought after you guys confirm the negative result, you were going to prescribe Provera to induce my period." She responded very enthusiastically "Oh yeah, sure. Do you want us to call your prescription in?" I wanted to scream at her and say "WTF is the matter with you? Of course I need you to call in the damn thing. You know damn well I can't just walk in to a pharmacy and buy them over the counter!" She just confirm my pharmacy location and hang up. No instruction for the pills, nothing whatsoever.
I immediately texted Tim to let him know what a fucking moron that nurse was. I already knew I was not pregnant. I was only trying to go through the motion to please these people since my doctor didn't seem to take me seriously when I told them I felt like I ovulated but my period did not come.
If pills work, then I can go in for SIS. If not, I have more reasons to go there and insist them to check more things out.
Tim agreed that our RE is not mean, but she just does not appear to be so interested in what we are trying to do, which is to have a baby. I don't know any more. There are three other doctors in the same group and I think I'd like to switch to one of them. It's not like I am going to go to a complete different practice, so I'd think it can't be difficult. I sort of feel guilty, and I know I don't need to feel that way.
Don't feel guilty at all. If your RE or her nurses (except for Nurse Heather) are causing you more frustration and don't seem to care to help you, I say move on. You want to feel like your RE is invested. Before we started IVF, I had all these questions and my RE personally called me (instead of a nurse) and we talked and he told me, I want you guys to get pregnant and you're one of my favorite patients. That's the kind of RE you want - one who makes you feel like they're trying their hardest. Our RE is a guy and normally I pick women doctors but I'm glad we picked him b/c not only is at the top of his game professionally, but personally, he is very personable, caring and funny. My ob-gyn was a really uptight b***h and didn't seem to care about our infertility so I switched within the same practice. I felt awkward when I went for my pap smear knowing that the new ob-gyn knew I switched but she seemed to care a little bit more, even if she was quiet and didn't say much. If I were you, I would start looking for a new RE that you like better. Seriously, you pay enough money and should like who you are seeing.
ReplyDeleteHope the Provera works soon so you can move forward. I'm supposed to get my period soon now that last night was the last pill so we could be starting a new cycle together :)
You are exactly right. I should move on. I don't know why I didn't do a through research, I thought I did... But now as I read stuff, I found many complaints similar to mine. Many reviewers are saying that they are not into what they were trying to do. I agree. I think they are competent, but I don't think they care. Especially since we haven't given up conceiving naturally, they see us as if we are just getting in their way of making money.
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