Doctors Are Too Busy

Another thing I have learned over the past 7 years is that doctors are often too busy for you. At this point, I have now been through 3 gynocologist and 2 fertility specialist. I am finally happy with my current gynocologist and fertility specialist but it took years to find them. Please, if you learn nothing else from this blog, ask your friends and family first who they are seeing. Often, you will find support just because other people have been through this too and just do not talk about it until asked. I had been with my first gynocologist for about 6 years when we started trying to get pregnant. He was way to busy and basically for two years had me on chlomid and kept checking my progesterone levels but nothing else. He did not seem to know what to do after that and never actually referred me to anyone else. He checked my husband and did xrays on me but everything was "ok." We never got specifics from him. Finally, I gave up and went to a different gynecologist, a woman, thinking she might be more helpful. She did manage to get some details from my previous gyno but other than ultrasounds she did not do much else. She then referred me to an infertility specialist. This was a nightmare! He was working in a teaching hospital and spent more time talking to his trainees than to me and my husband. His office did not even attempt to file anything with our insurance and basically for the next three months he took our money to do repeated IUIs without any further testing. At this point, I was tired of the whole process so we took some time off. Then I finally talked with a friend who recommended a new gyno for me. This doctor is great! He looked at me in the first appointment and asked if I had pain with my cycles. I said yes, he said endometriosis and we were off. I had surgery this past March to remove a good bit of endometriosis and then after another couple of months of not getting pregnant he referred me to a wonderful place call the ART program http://www.artprogramal.com. These people are proactive. During our first month with them, my husband and I spent a part of 3 days a week there being tested. They found things that no one else had even attempted. So currently, we are working on solutions to those promblems and hoping soon to be pregnant. Seven years and we finally have found someone to take the time and listen to us. Research is key and asking your friends can not hurt in your search!