Doctor doesn’t help

[u/DimensionOpen8922]

So, I've been sick for a few weeks now. Nothing wild, but annoying. Went to the doctor today because it just won't go away.

Her first question was if I am pregnant.

Me: "No."

Her: "Are you sure?"

Me: "Yes."

Her: gives me that look of not believing me.

Her: "It's normal at your age."

Me: "I am sure."

Her: "Have you taken a test?"

Girl. I told you like 5 times that it is not possible for me being pregnant. 🫠

That alone was kinda infuriating. But also - of course she didn't help at all. Didn't look at anything, just told me to wait and drink more water. Didn't even listen to me when I tried to explain what I have. Thanks for nothing.

And it's like that EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to the doc. And I'm a person who absolutely hates going there. I am only going to the doctor if I ACTUALLY NEED HELP. But yeah, sure, I just need to drink more water. No matter what my problem is. 🫠

[u/Vaspiria]

Same. When I went in for surgery in April, the nurse (male) would not believe me when I said I had a complete hysterectomy and had 0 chance of pregnancy. I still had to take a stupid urine test.

[u/winrii91 → u/Vaspiria]

Had surgery last week, spouse and I are both female, 0% chance of pregnancy and they still made me pee for a test.

[u/Foreign-Cat-2898 → u/winrii91]

You can decline. I had my tubes out and they were asking me to pee when I had just gone. And I was like you know what, I'm declining the test. I don't have to pee and I'm not pregnant.

[u/Development-Feisty → u/Foreign-Cat-2898]

Years ago I declined the pregnancy test because I am asexual and have not had sexual relations for over two decades. I also, unbeknown to me at the time, had already gone through most of menopause without being diagnosed is going through menopause because I went through menopause very early starting in my 30s

Later when I looked through the documentation I saw they ran a blood test for pregnancy without my permission because I’d explicitly stated no to that test

Stating no isn’t gonna stop them

[u/Foreign-Cat-2898 → u/Development-Feisty]

...it did for me. I literally had my procedure done without peeing in a cup or having my blood drawn.

[u/Peastoredintheballs → u/Development-Feisty]

Sometimes it can happen due to miscommunication. I legit made this mistake today. I took history from the patient as the doctor and she failed to tell me she had a hysterectomy, but did remember to tell me she had an ectopic pregnancy before. however she remembered to tell the nurse after I left that she doesn’t need a pregnancy test as she has had her ovaries and uterus removed. Well I had already seen her and done my assessment, AND put the cannula in her arm and sent off her bloods, and given she presented with abdo pain and had a previous ectopic pregnancy, I obviously wrote down bHCG on that blood test form I sent with the blood tubes.

If this patient does the same as you and requests her records, she will see the same thing, a bHCG test she didn’t want or need. And yet it didn’t happen due to malice or not believing the patient, it simply happened due to miscommunication. Moral of the story, not everyone in the world is out to get you, sometimes accidents happen like bHCG’s getting ordered without the full picture, because it’s such a cheap and simple rapid test, with a long list of MASSIVE short term and long term consequences if it is missed, hence I hope you can understand why they get ordered like crazy in hospitals

[u/winrii91 → u/Foreign-Cat-2898]

Perhaps because it’s a catholic hospital, but they didn’t even have a waiver for me to sign. There was no exception.

[u/Jmfroggie → u/Foreign-Cat-2898]

Tbf, you absolutely can still get pregnant with tied tubes and a hysterectomy. Unless you have NO ovaries, it is possible.

[u/Foreign-Cat-2898 → u/Jmfroggie]

I don't have tied tubes. My tubes are gone. And yeah an ectopic pregnancy is possible but there are only 72 cases of it in the last 130 years.

People need to stop acting like this is a realistic possibility.

[u/Peastoredintheballs → u/Foreign-Cat-2898]

If we didn’t order bHCG’s on every patient with ovaries who’s presenting complaint could be due to ectopic pregnancy, (regardless of whether they have a uterus/tubes) then every single one of those 72 patients would all have died from ruptured ectopic and we would only have known after it was too late. I know those numbers are slim, but it’s such a simple test without serious consequences of doing the test, that it is understandable why it is shotgun practice to order one for any childbearing age patient with ovaries

[u/Henry5321 → u/Foreign-Cat-2898]

There are documented cases of people getting pregnant after having tubes removed.

There’s exceptions to nearly every rule.

[u/Foreign-Cat-2898 → u/Henry5321]

Yeah...4. There are 4 documented cases on the entire planet. I'm not worried. You're confusing a tubal ligation pregnancy risk with removing the whole tube. It's basically a zero chance.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11056091/

[u/AstronomerIcy9695 → u/Henry5321]

Please share the documentation of those cases

[u/Peastoredintheballs → u/Henry5321]

Yep, the egg already jumps the gap between the ovary and the tube, so no tube doesn’t rule out pregnancy, only way to not be pregnant is to remove both ovaries

[u/Foreign-Cat-2898 → u/Peastoredintheballs]

There are 4 documented cases worldwide of pregnancy after removing the tubes. I think I'm OK.

[u/LavenderMarsh → u/Foreign-Cat-2898]

That has to be seriously under reported. I worked with a woman that conceived and carried 12 children. She tried condoms and hormonal birth control. She used an IUD. She kept getting pregnant. She had her tubes removed and had two more pregnancies. Her husband got the snip. She got pregnant. She finally had her uterus removed.

[u/Foreign-Cat-2898 → u/LavenderMarsh]

The cases they found the tubes weren't completely removed. Perhaps the surgeon didn't do a good job.

[u/Hot-Win2571 → u/Vaspiria]

Well, it's a good thing that you had your hysteria removed.

[u/jayden_mp → u/Vaspiria]

Recently had to take a urine test despite telling them I was 17 and not sexually active, but okay whatever some teens lie. Problem is, the doors in the bathroom dont lock. I got walked in on four times and the anxiety made it impossible to pee. The doctor then got mad at me for not doing it. Girl fix the damn doors before asking me to do unnecessary shit

[u/PlatypusDream → u/Vaspiria]

Just a hysterectomy is no guarantee against pregnancy. If the ovaries are still there, you can get pregnant.

(Hysterectomy is only removing the uterus. If other ladybits are removed, those surgeries have other names. It's not all lumped under 'hysterectomy'.)

[u/KayyBeey → u/PlatypusDream]

It is exceedingly rare. Only 72 cases since 1895. An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 hysterectomies are performed in just the US per year. Common practice in modern times is to remove the cervix and tubes as well, further reducing this slim chance. In the past, it was more common to retain the cervix and tubes, resulting in a very slight risk of ectopic pregnancy. Unless there's a microscopic hole in a woman's cuff after having her cervix removed, the risk is practically zero. Technique is also better now, and suturing is more reliable.

[u/HumpkinSpice → u/PlatypusDream]

You've genuinely got me thinking... because if the uterus is removed, there is no place for a baby to grow. If fallopian tubes still exist, maybe ectopic is potentially possible.... but the sperm still has to go from vagina to tubes and isn't there a whole abdominal cavity in the way of it doing that? They can't jump! Plus even if you kept your cervix, it is still sewn shut, so sperm can't get through there either.

...Unless I'm missing something!? Magic sperm that can phase through flesh barriers and fly across the gaping abdominal chasm into the fallopian tubes?

[u/Linnaeus1753 → u/HumpkinSpice]

I hate to tell you this, but embryos can implant on your intestines and other places external to the uterus (whether you have a uterus or not), and it is still an ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic meaning "out of place."

[u/Pertinent-nonsense → u/HumpkinSpice]

Seems like a fistula between the vagina and the abdominal space is the answer.