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Medical thoughts, 2002-12-02, 9:34 a.m.


You know what gets me? Doctors who know far to little regarding womyns issues. I've been thinking of this since my specialist appointment.

As many of you know, I've lost weight recently. So what in many ways. However, I have an ovarian disorder that, amongst other things, makes losing weight hard. I knew this but I did not realize to what extent. My trip to the specialist on Thursday past informed me of this, including the fact that this difficulty can be treated. In fact, the medication is one that is given to womyn of my disorder, if they are thus inclined, so that they can 'normalize' without the need of the pill. Without taking this medication, I have a 2/3 chance of developing diabetes in the next ten years. Again, related to the ovaries.

Last winter, I went to see a different doctor. He was one who I don't really like to visit - yet, at this visit I did not know this as it was my first to him. I asked him, knowing my history - we'd discussed it for a while, inluding my ovaries - is there anything he could prescribe for weight loss. He said, looking directly at me, 'There is nothing that I can prescribe. It is a matter of eating less and exercising more'. Of course, that is true. Eating less and working out does encourage weight loss. But damn. This medication that I've now been put on is to help weight loss (it won't do as much for me as it does for others because I am on the pill) and waylay the onset of diabetes.

Why did my doctor not mention this? Why didn't he think about that as an option for me? Instead he gave me a different pill prescription - one that caused depressions - and told me there was nothing that could be done, indicating that I had to eat less and workout more. Without asking my eating habits or my exercize routine.

Could this be dangerous? I think so. I don't expect doctors to be all knowing, but I would like them to know of things that could potentially hurt me. It is a finding from the last few years, so it could have been in a journal that they should have read. There were enough paperbacks on his desk for me to think that he was caught up in his professional readings. Why did he not know?

Going to a doctor should not make you fear his lack of knowledge.


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