Reged: 08/06/04
Posts: 4381
Loc: Within stray mortar fire of DC
Um, I'd think about getting a second opinion, if I were you. You have a week until surgery? Go to another doctor and get a second test. In fact, go to a female doctor and do it.
They're going to put you under and cut you open. Get another doc to weigh in on it beforehand.
This doc doesn't seem to have good communication skills here. I went to one who always ordered more tests and never talked to me. At one point I pointed this out to a technician, who was currently playing a game of painful billiards in me with a sonogram probe for a second time. She said "Oh, he probably doesn't want to worry you."
Great. I switched doctors that day.
Point is, if I'd left earlier I could have learned that gyns aren't supposed to take biopsies of me with no pain management. I could have also been more involved in my health management instead of just being along for the ride.
I say you've got nothing to lose by talking to another professional at a women's health clinic, even if it costs you $100 out of pocket. He's going to cut you open and we still haven't resolved what kinda cyst thing he's going to be mining around for.
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