annual OB/GYN appointment

CarrieB. · December 2014

So I just got back from my annual OB/GYN appointment. I don't think I've had a normal annual check up since maybe 2008? Then we were going to the RE, we had a baby, went back to the RE, had another baby and here we are. Not trying, not on birth control, no plans for anything really which is annoying to explain to the NP. It felt very strange and seeing the pregnant women in the waiting room brought back all kinds of bad old feelings. Ugh, just when you think you won't have any more bad IF feelings, they sneak back up on you.

Oh and just a random vent, is it really that unusual to do a FET with your own embie? I swear that every time I talk to a new doctor and say I did a FET, they say "Oh with your own embryo?" like its really weird.

TJ1979 · December 2014

Maybe they are just assuming if it was your own embryo you would be doing a fresh cycle? Oh, or people are just stupid. Yeah, I vote that one.

I remember going to a doctor's visit recently and being asked when my last period was. I had no clue, but could only guess it was sometime in 2010? I got a blank stare back.

itsmevkb · December 2014

Sorry you had those bad feeling come back.

I just had my general practitioner refuse to refill a prescription for me because I hadn't been to see her in so long. Ummm, yea, I haven't seen her because I've been too busy seeing a reproductive endocrinologist, a hematologist, a regular endocrinologist and my ob/gyn so forgive me for not checking in with yet another damn doctor.

luvboston · December 2014

I think medical professionals who don't deal with infertility and reproduction on a regular basis are just dumb and not well read. I had a doctor ask me yesterday if this was normal for a pg person to be on prednisone and blood thinners. Hmm let me think did you go to medical school and do an OB rotation? Also the same doc asked me of this was my second pg seriously I've been coming to you for years, did you miss out on the three bad ones?

jesselayne8 · December 2014

OB docs and nurses can be such idiots. They truely believe everyone ovulates on CD 14 and has a 14 day LP. I got so tired of explaining at every damn appointment with DS why my due date didn't match my LMP. This time around I fudged my LMP to match up with my ovulation date. Then they told me there was no way I could have had a positive pregnancy test because I couldn't have "missed my period let". Ugh. I give up.

Saraevh · December 2014

My annual (also the first "annual" I've had since 2009!!!!!) was about two weeks ago and I know the exact feeling you're talking about ... and what felt even more weird for me was having an IUD put in! I can't believe after all of these years I'm back on birth control. DH also contacted Dr. Sandlow (you know, the same guy who was helping us get pregnant) about scheduling a consult for a vasectomy which has me filled with all sorts of crazy emotions. Anyway! All of that to say it felt super strange to have not seen an OB for a whole year and to not be pregnant or trying to get pregnant for a whole year either!

Ruthie04 · December 2014

Posts like this remind me that I should never leave my OB practice! I switch between two docs, one of whom was a patient at my RE's and the other, who is her bestie. They just get it, while 95% of the other docs just don't.

itsmevkb · December 2014

Saraevh said:

My annual (also the first "annual" I've had since 2009!!!!!) was about two weeks ago and I know the exact feeling you're talking about ... and what felt even more weird for me was having an IUD put in! I can't believe after all of these years I'm back on birth control. DH also contacted Dr. Sandlow (you know, the same guy who was helping us get pregnant) about scheduling a consult for a vasectomy which has me filled with all sorts of crazy emotions. Anyway! All of that to say it felt super strange to have not seen an OB for a whole year and to not be pregnant or trying to get pregnant for a whole year either!

Chris asked me about a vasectomy a while back and I should be at the point of saying, yes, schedule it and instead I just didn't even really respond. I also was pretty set on getting a hysterectomy after this baby but now I'm rethinking that. It's just all so FINAL.

CarrieB. · December 2014

itsmevkb said:

Saraevh said:

My annual (also the first "annual" I've had since 2009!!!!!) was about two weeks ago and I know the exact feeling you're talking about ... and what felt even more weird for me was having an IUD put in! I can't believe after all of these years I'm back on birth control. DH also contacted Dr. Sandlow (you know, the same guy who was helping us get pregnant) about scheduling a consult for a vasectomy which has me filled with all sorts of crazy emotions. Anyway! All of that to say it felt super strange to have not seen an OB for a whole year and to not be pregnant or trying to get pregnant for a whole year either!

Chris asked me about a vasectomy a while back and I should be at the point of saying, yes, schedule it and instead I just didn't even really respond. I also was pretty set on getting a hysterectomy after this baby but now I'm rethinking that. It's just all so FINAL.

Ugh, it is so final. Part of me just wants my DH to get a vasectomy, so we can just move on and be done. We have always only wanted 2 kids and after all we went through, we have them and we can't handle more now. But part of me is like maybe I would change my mind in 2 years, but that's stupid because then I'll be 38 and still infertile, probably more infertile and I will not do treatments again. Ugh!

itsmevkb · December 2014

I know @CarrieB.! It's ridiculous of me to not want something final when we will soon have five kids and I'm 43. What in the world do I think is going to happen? I'm going to get pregnant at 45? And would I even want that given how thin we're stretched right now? And yet, even with all that, something doesn't seem right about permanently closing the door. I'm hoping I'll feel differently after this baby is born.

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