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WWYD re: OB's office

UOduckBride2beUOduckBride2be member
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OK, frst off, I'm an idiot and can't figure out how to change my siggy, but this could be MC #4.  The conformation is really a formality at this point as my numbers are really really low, but there is a SLIM chance that if they double it might be ok.  Second, I absolutely love my OB and their lab guy who does all the blood draws, (I am a serious needle-phobe and he actually can put me at ease, he is my medical gay husband, LOVE HIM).

Now the insult to injury; I am sitting in my office right now waiting for the call on my HCG draw from this afternoon that should confirm I am having a MC.  The results were ordered STAT and I was told that I would be notified within an hour, which would have been 3:00 pm.  I cut them a little slack and didn't call the clinic until 4:00.  I talked to the receptionist and told her the situation she went and talked to my Dr's nurse and said the nurse knows about you and will be calling you shortly.  They stop answering their phones at 4:30 so I callled them back at 4:28.  The receptionist remembered me and told me that the nurse *promises* to call me before she leaves for the day.  The clinic closed at 5:00, so it got to be 6:00, 3 hours past when I was supposed to have the results, I am sitting at my desk not even wanting to go to the bathroom because I could miss the call and they will not leave it in a voice mail, so I decide to call the after-hours on-call Dr.  The messaging service took my info and said I should expect a call in 15 minutes or to call her back. I have 2 minutes left, no call yet. 

What would you do? Continue to call the on-call Dr?  How long would you wait at your desk thinking that this nurse who *promised* to call is actually going to?  Would you break up with your Dr. over this?  I just want the HCG#  I can wait for the Dr's interpretation and next steps tomorrow morning.  It might sound crass, but I really want to know if I can go have a few glasses of wine right now.  The uncertainty is making me Crazy.

Sorry if this seems like an inappropriate place to post this.  I started mourning this loss when I got my last beta #s back yesterday so I do feel I belong here and didn't feel another board was appropriate.

Thanks,

Sarah

Me: 37 DH: 43 Married 9/2004 TTC since 9/2005 CP Dec 2006 MC June 2008 at 6 weeks MC April 2010 at 9 weeks 50 clomid+IUI 11/2010=BFN 50 clomid+IUI 12/2010=BFP MC Feb 2011 at 7 weeks 8/11 CD3 AFC=24,FSH=6.91,AMH=5.6,E2=47.9, TSH=1.27,8/26 12DPO BFP Alistair Charles "Charlie" was born 5/7 weighing 8lbs, 10oz and 22" was long imageimageimageimage
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  • kaitlyn65kaitlyn65

    I'm sorry they didn't get back to you today with your numbers like they were supposed to. I know how much it sucks to have to wait for that kind of information. However, I wouldn't keep calling the on call Dr. - it really isn't a urgent medical issue and they likely won't have the information for you as it is probably in your chart at the office, not with the doctor. I also wouldn't leave this dr.'s practice because of it. It hopefully was a one time mishap. While they should have got back to you as promised they may have just got busy with other patient issues that came up and forgot to call you.  I would call the office again in the morning.

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  • UOduckBride2beUOduckBride2be member
    The On-Call Dr. just called and is pissed that this happened to me apologizing profusely for their staff.  She considered an impending MC an urgent matter for sure which was reassuring.  She can remotely access the files from their computer system and is going to call me back with my HCG number in about 15 minutes.  UNBELIEVEABLE!
    Me: 37 DH: 43 Married 9/2004 TTC since 9/2005 CP Dec 2006 MC June 2008 at 6 weeks MC April 2010 at 9 weeks 50 clomid+IUI 11/2010=BFN 50 clomid+IUI 12/2010=BFP MC Feb 2011 at 7 weeks 8/11 CD3 AFC=24,FSH=6.91,AMH=5.6,E2=47.9, TSH=1.27,8/26 12DPO BFP Alistair Charles "Charlie" was born 5/7 weighing 8lbs, 10oz and 22" was long imageimageimageimage
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  • kaitlyn65kaitlyn65
    That's great that they can get that for you tonight. Hoping you get good news!
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  • BritanyVBritanyV

    Update us with what you find out! 

    That really sucks the nurse did that to you!  

    I remember getting really upset with my dr's office in September waiting for some information from the nurse and it was a Friday and they close at 12 on Fridays.   Well around 2pm the nurse called me...guess they actually work late on Fridays just don't answer phones and have appointments!  

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  • buckeyebaby814buckeyebaby814 member
    First, my thoughts and prayers are with you as you wait for this difficult news.  I too, experienced this same issue,  my OB's office was off on New Year's Eve and I went in for my 2nd draw that morning at the hospital.  The answering service had no consideration for why I was so upset and basically told me there was no way the nurse said they would call me that day. long story short, the nurse did call with the devastating news.  This is the right place to rant, being through this exact situation myself, I know exactly how you feel.

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  • UOduckBride2beUOduckBride2be member

    Ok, here's the update.  The next call I received was from my own Dr. who was at home having dinner.  The On-call Dr. called her and my Dr. wanted to call me back herself, (love her).  After being VERY apologetic she gave me the news I was expecting, that this pregnancy was no longer viable.  The silver lining is that now I can get my misoprostol RX today and likely be able to pass everything this weekend.  My numbers are dropping at such a rate that my Dr. thinks this will resolve itself quickly.  I know it might sound strange that I am already over it and ready to move on, but since this is MC #4 and we have been TTC#1 for almost 6 years now and I am 36, we have been there, done that, and the only way I am going to end up with a healthy baby in my arms is to get back into the TTC game ASAP.  I just don't have time to look at or deal with it any other way.  Hopefully we will be able to do more targeted testing on me and repeat a few tests from the RPL panel and see if anything that may have been borderline before is now an issue.  I just have to keep the wheels in motion!

    Thanks for the kind words and I am sorry for the losses you have all endured.  Good Luck to you!

    Sarah

    Me: 37 DH: 43 Married 9/2004 TTC since 9/2005 CP Dec 2006 MC June 2008 at 6 weeks MC April 2010 at 9 weeks 50 clomid+IUI 11/2010=BFN 50 clomid+IUI 12/2010=BFP MC Feb 2011 at 7 weeks 8/11 CD3 AFC=24,FSH=6.91,AMH=5.6,E2=47.9, TSH=1.27,8/26 12DPO BFP Alistair Charles "Charlie" was born 5/7 weighing 8lbs, 10oz and 22" was long imageimageimageimage
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  • BritanyVBritanyV

    :(   I'm sorry you received bad news.   I was hoping to come back here and see that you got good news. 

     I hope that you can heal quickly and get back on the TTC wagon as you want to.

     

    ((HUGS))

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