Pay attention to us...

After receiving another fabulous comment from my lovely commenter with a great tip on doctors visits: write down questions before you go, it really got me thinking about doctors in general. Writing down all your questions before you go and then just reading off the list when you get there really does help and so does writing down the answers. It ensures that you don't forget something and also I always felt like I was being rude if I was asking too many questions so now I can just blame it on the list. "Sorry doctor, I have to ask it, it's on the list!" Plus, this is our our ability to have a baby we're talking about so lately my politeness has gone out the window with the doctors that we've been seeing.

I just have been feeling so passed around by my OB. I actually went to her because I was having really painful periods and she was asking me all about what is going on and I said, "Well my husband and I have been trying for about 6 or 7 months now and I'm just having trouble dealing with my cramps." Then we talked about how much sex we were having and when, and if we were using OPK strips and what else we were doing and from that she decided that we needed to go ahead and start testing for infertility. So she sent us here, she sent us there, doctors for me and doctors for him. Now that was all well and good but we never covered what I can do to help myself get through these cramps which was why I originally went in there! She is totally right in pushing us to see the specialists, especially with the possibility of endometriosis looming over our heads and I know that there is not some miracle remedy for women that get cramps like mine but I just would've liked it if we had tried to solve that problem first and then went on to the infertility stuff because I'm still suffering every month! Hopefully this will be the last month I have to deal with them, of course I say this every month to myself!

It is just hard going from doctor to doctor to doctor, and I'm hoping that when we get to the fertility specialists they will treat us with care. I actually signed over copies of my medical records from the past year to myself from my OB just so I could have copies of everything to take with me to all these different doctors and I would highly recommend doing that. Plus you can take all your test results and google them to learn more and honestly to double check what your doctor is telling you. Sometimes it is just nice to get a confirmation. I just want to be paid attention to, not passed around like a tray of hors d’oeuvres. I'm hoping we'll get that with the specialists, I mean really they had better, we're going to have to pay for most of it out of pocket!