migraines....
Do some people just not know what a migraine is? Despite working at a doctor's office?
Called up the OB (because they told me to anytime I have an issue and not to go to reg doc) because I had a migraine and tylenol was just not doing it, I needed something stronger. So I had to leave a message. Around 4:45 they get back to me and say "well can you wait til your next appointment?" Hm... well I was just seen yesterday and my next appointment is in 4 weeks, and I have a migraine today... do you think that works? "well they can't prescribe anything without seeing you, they could see you tomorrow" Well my migraine could be gone tomorrow and I'm in excuriating pain right now... and they told me since my first OB visit that if I had migraines (since i can't take my migraine meds) that they could give me vicodin or tylenol 3. "yeah but not without seeing you since we've haven't seen you for this problem" (well DUH, you're my OB, wouldn't go to you for migraines). Well great, thanks for nothing I guess I have to call my regular doc. At 5 o'clock... at least someone is there and I was able to leave a msg for the oncall doc. Course the receptionist said, well you'll probably have to be seen and i said, well i've already been seen for migraines, my problem is that I'm pregnant and can't take the regular meds. What are they gonna do, not like they can diagnose a migraine, just wastes my time and money and the doc's time.
Finally I was given tylenol3 and feel better. Some people are just so retarded.
"Oh you have a migraine and are in a great amount of pain? Can you wait til tomorrow?"
"What the fuck do you think?!!!"
3 comments:
I think next time you should leave a message for your doctor and agree that you shouldn't have to be seen for that, however they might want to check your blood pressure and so that might be the reason why.
When I was pregnant with Sierra I got bad migraines. They are triggered by hormonal changes. The doctor prescribed me some medicine that worked awesome. It was TylenolBE or something like that.
When I was pregnant with Madeleine I started to get the headaches again so I went to the doctor (a different one since we moved to Cali) and asked for that medicine. They thought I was a drug seeker. I guess the BE is a highly addictive drug or something. I was just trying to get what had worked before. crazy
well with my first OB appointment I had mentioned migraines and she wrote it down and everything, so if they had looked at my chart, they should have known I had the problem. And I'm very very sure my blood pressure would have been up cause of the pain I was in, which duh, if you just give me the meds I'd be fine. What sucks is that my dentist and my eye doctor usually know me better than my PCP and OBGYN and I see them once a year... I guess I just want small town care or something, ya know?
You can also write a letter to your OBGYN explaining what happened and why it was not ok (though that is kind of obvious). Docs only know what their staff tell them, and I'm sure she's probably not getting the whole story from the receptionist.
This way, she'll know what's going on and she might be able fix the problem for the future (I doubt your the only woman to experience this).
Just take the time to make sure the letter is NOT an angry or emotional letter - - unless you want it to be ignored - - and that it is grammatically correct and all that.
In a docs office, letters are potential legal documents. Save a copy of your letter.
I'm glad you got some adequate medicine eventually. You definitely did the right thing calling your PCPs office.
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