RRRAAAUUUGH!
Nov 8, 2006 Author: Rhonda | Filed under: GeneralSo guess what I just found out…
My stupid freaking endocrinologist is a fardling idiot!
Remember how he made me wean my baby?
Remember how he told me I had to be away from them for at least 48 hours?
FAT PACK OF LIES!
I stopped by the lactation clinic, to find out if there was any chance that I could go back to nursing Tink - she still tries to nurse, and I’m still making milk. The lactation consultant pulls out the big book ‘o medical knowledge, and looks up the various types of chemicals they give you for a thyroid uptake scan. Some of them had limits, like no nursing within 48 hours, others had no interdictions against nursing, and very few said that it required complete cessation of nursing.
Guess what?
The gave me isotope I123, which was so safe and stable that the kids didn’t need to go anywhere. I didn’t have to stop nursing AT ALL.
So poor Tink has been suffering with extremely painful constipation for NOTHING.
That stupid doctor has put my baby through stress and pain for noooooothing.
So after the lunch time is over, I am going back to my general practitioner and asking for a referral to a different endocrinologist. Maybe I’ll have to drive an hour or more, but at this point I think any doctor is better than this guy, who has freaked me out about possibly having cancer, or a brain tumor, and over exaggerating *everything* he’s said to me.
GRRRR.
So I get to attempt relactation, to see if I can help my poor little girl poop. I am so pissed that all the fear and nervousness of the last 3 months was for absolutely nothing, because this guy apparently doesn’t know crap.
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*Empathy grumbling* Stupid man. Hope things go better!
As if having my first baby isn’t scary enough for me, now I have to worry about whether I really CAN trust my doctors.
I’m sorry about all your stress and trouble, sugar. Good luck nursing Tink!!
This is why it’s important to don’t be afraid to ask questions and do some research, I will say, however, that with most isotopes and BFing, they would want to monitor the baby to be sure. I would encourage you to make sure you get second opinions with EVERY major scary diagnosis.
Doctors make mistakes and sadly there’s idiots too. I’m thinking he mixed up I123 with 131, which has an 8 day HL vs. a 13 hour HL. With 131, they would encourage weaning, with 123 at higher levels, you’d have to halt for a couple days. Well, according to hubby’s radiotech friends.
At least it was not fatal…. a certain HMO here on the west coast that has the same name as a former German ruler’s title commonly misdiagnoses people in the er, sends ‘em home… then their appendix bursts or somesuch.
See, and that makes sense, with the research I did with the doc at the lactation clinic… The one she was worried that they gave me was I Sodium 123 - Iodine with sodium. That’s one of the “complete cessation of nursing” drugs. There were a few others with fairly short half-lives, but since it’s been a couple weeks, and they gave me the tiniest dose of 123 possible…
>.<
This is just the last straw with this guy - every time I asked a question or brought up the research I’d done, he treated me like I was an idiot. He would often remark on my weight, and how I needed to lose weight. And I was bad and looked at my records on his computer, and he has listed under “problems being treated” - hyperthyroidism and OBESITY… yes, I’m overweight. But I am not in his office for him to treat me with obesity. He also had in his records that I was on Percocet (???) even though I REPEATEDLY told him I was only taking vitamins, and for a while fish oil caplets. I’m allergic to Percocet, and mentioned that multiple times. One of the big reasons I wanted to get this looked at in the first place was to find out why I couldn’t lose weight. So fo him to harp on me having to drop 50 pounds - it’s like “Yes, I know I need to lose weight. But my body WON’T lose weight. That’s why we’re looking at my thyroid, dumbass”….
*grinds her teeth*
He just ignores any valid questions I have, by telling me either not to worry, or that my questions don’t apply in my case.
Thus, the seeking out of another endocrinologist.
Yeesh. Thankfully, all the rest of my doctors seem to be doing their jobs properly. This guy just rubs me the wrong way.
I’m sorry.
i’m sorry - i can’t stand incompitence …
marhwama… would you happen to know this guy’s address…?
Just kidding. Barely. What a cruel bastard. >:((
Ugh one of THOSE jerks. Even though you went through some stress and stupidity, I hope your next doctor rules all out his scary diagnoses.
*hugs* What an incompitent jerk!!!
“It’s all guesswork in a white coat.”
Shall I hunt him down and skin his ass for you? OMG? SRSLY?
1. i knew you had thyriod problems how many years ago and it took them how long to figure it out?
2. i told you that endocrinologist is TERRIBLE. i bet you had to wait in the office for hours just to be seen to get that terrible treatment, too.
3. it is worth going to a specialist far away. there is a good one in SLC.
My husband and I just talked about this recently! That everytime I go to a doctor the first thing they say is “You need to lose weight!” and I look dumbfounded and think, “Are you going to tell me how?” and “Um, I wasn’t overweight UNTIL I got Chronic Fatigue.”
I’m sure I said this already, but, my most recent doctor MUST be a big health nut and wants me to be exercising everytime I want to sit down and read a book or play World of Warcraft. She wants me to be walking fast 5 miles a day. ME! Who gets tired getting ready in the morning? ME! Who is out on the couch and zombie like and gets sick easily for weeks if I do too much normal everyday like activities?
I’m tired of doctors too.
I watched “House” the other night and the man was 600 lbs. and kept yelling at the doctors to look past his weight and find out what was wrong with him!
Sound familiar?
To have your health problems/treatment affect your children has got to make you feel like killing!
Hang in there. If you need to see a doctor in Salt Lake you can come hang out with me before getting back home. K?
You can ask Sandra for my e-mail address. :)
And we are planning to go to the Release Party in Provo too. after lunch time, I think. I hope to see you there. :)