Vacant uteri need not apply...

I have been feeling a little disgruntled lately with my doc. I suffer from endometriosis and have been experiencing extreme pain. Pain that makes you throw up. Pain that makes you sweat. Pain that makes you not eat. Pain that will not let you sleep. I have let the doc know this on several occasions and at multiple appointments. He gives me a script for ibuprofen. This is all nice, but it does not work. I asked him for something stronger. You would have thought I had two heads. He could not possibly prescribe a Narcotic. He must first do surgery and then we could talk about pain medicine. I understand that we need to know what we are treating. What am I suppose to do in the mean time? This leads me to have some other questions. Questions of why some docs are quick to prescribe meds without hesitation and without expertise.

During my pregnancy I was on a hormonal roller coaster. I called the nurse and told her that I felt " overwhelmed with emotion." She told me that she would speak to the doc. I received a phone call that they called in an anti depressant for me. The doc did not see me, speak to me or evaluate me. He felt comfortable enough to prescribe an antidepressant to a woman in a vulnerable state. Did he know that I wasn't suicidal? I did not fill the script. I just needed someone to tell me that it was normal to feel the way I was feeling. I talked to one of my friends and had a bowl of ice cream. All was good.

My second point relates to the Octomom. Why does it seem that anyone can get fertility drugs and treatment without having a psych eval? My doc and others are very quick to prescribe fertility meds.

Lets recap for all my sleep deprived sisters out there. Medical docs will freely give antidepressants and fertility drugs like candy to anyone who requests them. So we have all these depressed infertile women walking around jacked up on Lexapro and Clomid. This gives a " happy" and " full to capacity" uterus. But if you want a vacant uterus, it must be sad and full of pain. In other words vacant uteri need not apply.


That is all. Carry on!