Terrible planned parenthood experience

[enasisabitch]

I live in Moreno Valley, CA so I just wanted to give everyone else a heads up if they are in the area and want to see a doctor here. The first time I went was for a different reason, but my BP was a little high so they wanted to check again at a later date. I have anxiety from driving and this was my first time coming plus i got lost so I just wasn

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[raktajinos]

ug. I feel bad for you. I also have PCOS and I every medical professional I saw assumed I was diabetic because of the metformin. But thankfully I was lucky and wasn't treated horribly for it. Oh no, thats a lie. My OBGYN was an ass about it, hate that man. I no longer see him. Every time he'd tell me to lose weight cause I was diabetic. I was sent to him *because* of the PCOS. Friggen fat hate.

also, a metformin question. I ended up choosing to go off the drug because it made me nauseous all the time. Did you experience that? (and you're totally free to not answer that)

[enasisabitch]

That sucks! When I lived in central CA and even Chicago I was lucky to have doctors who treated me based on what was going on rather than my weight so this experience was really shocking.

I was given metformin extended release because the normal stuff gave me TERRIBLE stomach pain. The metformin ER gives me nausea sometimes, but i've only limited myself to one time a day at night with food. If i don't eat a heavy enough meal at night I sometimes wake up nauseous.

[matildarose]

TMI time, but Metformin did give me cramps and.... let's just say I felt self-conscious about going into a bathroom anywhere in public. Doctor switched me to the ER version and that helped a lot.

[icegirl99]

Metformin can make you feel nauseated all the time. I was put on it because my blood sugar levels were just out of normal range.

I was horribly sick the first two weeks I was on it. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea constantly. After that it settled down a bit but I was still dealing with horrible nausea. I suffered on this medication for three months.

Due to the fact that I was nauseated all the time I wasn't eating as much and I lost 30 lbs in three months. My blood sugar went back to normal and my doctor took me off of it. The nausea stopped when I stopped taking the metformin.

Also, speaking as a medical professional myself, metformin does cause continued nausea (as well as some of the other unpleasant side effects I mentioned above) in some people. Most people only experience the side effects when they first start the medication. They usually go away after a few weeks on the medication. However, they can persist. Its uncommon, but not unheard of.

[lilacsigil]

I hate it when a doctor either tries to cover up their ignorance by insisting that you have something when you don't or just randomly decides you're diabetic! I had one doctor make up a history of high blood pressure (I made her look at my actual notes which were on the screen in front of her) then she refused to prescribe me the pill because of this imaginary history. I got really upset (I take it for PCOS) and she said, "Oh, I see you're a very anxious person." Only around you, doctor!

[lanfykins]

Aaaargh. Yes. I had an anaesthesiologist once be 'concerned' about my mental health after I burst into tears while talking to him.

Given that at the time he was calling me a liar, telling me to crash diet for surgery, and trying to refuse me that much-needed ankle surgery if I didn't, I think that not being in tears would have indicated mental health problems!

[spinrabbit]

AARGH! I had that happen to me too. I was seeing my primary care at the college health center about repetitive motion injuries (carpal tunnel + tendinitis) brought on by too much typing and not enough anything else, and asking him for a not documenting my needed accomodations for exams. I was in pain, worried about exams, trying to explain my needs, and he did an assessment that involved putting my wrists in a strange position and waiting a couple minutes to see if it made my pain worse; he left me alone in the room during those couple minutes, it did make my pain worse. When I cried talking to him after that, he sent me up for assessment by mental health.

[enasisabitch]

You know it makes me wonder sometimes if people get prescribed metformin because of their weight. my thin friend has PCOS and they wanted to run a test first. They just gave me the prescription

[matildarose]

I feel for you.

My mother insists I have diabetes since I take metformin. When I try to explain why I take it (slightly pre-diabetic, plus family history on both sides and weight issues, so doc and I decided to act early on top of looking at food choices and exercise), she goes 'why would you take it, if you don't have diabetes?' and insists pre-diabetes doesn't exist, or that it's just a kinder way of saying 'diabetes'. What's surreal is that she has the same doctor, and is actually diabetic, so it confuses me that she doesn't realize the term 'pre-diabetic' exists.

It's one of the reasons I love my doctor, too- she's frank with me about weight, but never in that lazy 'lose weight and all your problems will go away' way, which I personally love.

[firecat]

Doctors keep going back and forth about whether there is such a thing as pre-diabetes, and changing the criteria for diabetes. I think the current belief is that pre-diabetes does exist, but for quite a few years recently it didn't exist.

[matildarose]

Aaah. I was only diagnosed a few years ago, myself, so that makes sense.

[lunasilvertail]

Oh my gosh,

I feel like I've had the same issue over and over and over again with my PCOS. I'm extremely sorry that you had to go though with that, because, MAN it's enough to flip a couple thousand tables over! I have very severe PCOS (my testosterone is/was ridiculous). I do hope you find someone who can help you/have someone who's helping you. I'm at the beginning of a switch to a specialist for me, and compared to my old OBGYN, he is a god send. I'm not even going to go into how upsetting my old OBGYN was.

[antigone_ks]

Honestly, I'd question the competence of any dr. who doesn't know that metformin is commonly used for PCOS. I don't know anyone personally who was diagnosed who wasn't prescribed metformin (yay anecdata).