have to get this off my chest. .I went to a GYN appt. because it had been about 15 years. I knew it was going to be tough. First you have these questions fired off at you, you answer and then get the funny looks and suspicion and that raises more questions, plus the Dr. repeats all his most humiliating questions as if to trip up the witness to get a diferent answer- like maybe you're a lier.
He tells me all this stuff and tests to get done and how hes removing something here , and something about breast exam and not smooth- and he takes me for a moron by telling me dont worry about the big lumps - thats just your ribs lol- yes he made a funny-
Im in my 40s, I cant give a complete history , then there was ECT for 2 years that erased even more,
then you feel like hes calling you slut telling about an abortion and I cant remember what year it happened, then what month of the pregnancy ( jeeziz it was in the 70s isnt that close enough)
and you dont talk in an office, he doesnt introduce himself, he takes a phone call in another room and Im there in a sheet cooling my heels for 20 minutes,
and dont they know we become automatically almost deaf when being told instructions while a hand is up there and poking around and pushing on you?
so there it is- how wonderfull to have this managed care insurance Dr. who never even heard of dissociation much less cracked open a DSM.
Thanks for listening. now I go for more humiliation in my own best interest in a few weeks.