It always seems that I get a comment to an old post that reminds me I haven't updated here for a while. So, here I am updating again. The panniculectomy was approved by insurance and I'm scheduled for the first week of December. I had seen one of the nurse practitioners in my Ob's office when I posted last and told her I wanted the hysterectomy and she had me make an appointment with the doctor for consult/follow up. My doctor had a new partner and I was asked if I wanted to see her. I specifically said no I didn't want to see her. She has just finished her residency in June and I'm familiar with her when she worked at the hospital that I work at. She wasn't very polite to the nurses and basically I just didn't care for her. So a few weeks ago I showed up for my appointment and she walks in to the room. She also proceeded to treat me like I was an absolute freaking idiot. She went so far as to get out the color diagram of what a uterus looks like to show me where my fibroid was while saying several times that the fibroid was "ONLY 2CM". In other words, it couldn't possibly be causing me pain. She came in with her mind made up that she knew what was best and I would follow her instructions. I got up and walked out of the room. I stopped at the desk and informed them that I had made an appointment to see my doctor, not her and rescheduled. By the time I got home the office had called me back and my doctor got on the phone and tried to placate me and yet also back her up as well. He was basically condescending, told me they don't do hysterectomies with panniculectomies (to which I responded that the plastic surgeon stated she does them all the time), talk about clean and dirty surgery (any time anything is done with the bowel it's a dirty surgery which really confused me since neither of them should be doing anything with my bowel etc) and basically was a polite asshole. So after thinking it over a bit more I decided to get another opinion and switch doctors. I made an appointment with another doctor that several coworkers have mentioned really liking. The appointment was supposed to be for tomorrow but the office kept trying to get me in sooner and finally did manage to do so which was great. I saw the new doc last week and he was fabulous. He listened to me, asked me why, examined me and my chart and then sat and told me what all of my options were. After discussing I confirmed that I did want the hysterectomy and so that is now scheduled as well. There will be a bit of maneuvering to get all the necessary parties together and I may end up changing the date but this is all happening. It's a huge relief. I just purchased on Friday what will hopefully be my last ever box of tampons. New doc also did an endometrial biopsy which was really uncomfortable but it's done. The other option to doing it in office was to schedule surgery time and do a D&C under general anesthesia which I really didn't want to do. The worst part was that he had a hard time getting into my uterus as my cervix wasn't a straight path and so it was a really intense cramping that lasted longer than for instance the HSG I did a few years ago. Plus I was way tired after having worked all night the night before and being up half the day so I was really tensed up which didn't help.
So that's where it's at right now. It looks like surgery will be in December which will give me Christmas off! Big plus. Now to just try to save up for my out of pocket part.
So that's where it's at right now. It looks like surgery will be in December which will give me Christmas off! Big plus. Now to just try to save up for my out of pocket part.
