Unable to Find New/Temporary T

Even if she's sick she has an obligation to you as your therapist but also as someone who cares about you, to at least make sure your needs are met during her absence.

Maybe you could get a referral from a doctor in the LGBT community? None of my therapists have advertised.

I don't know any doctors in the LGBT community either. In fact, I don't have a GP at all. I had a fantastic doctor for a few years, but she actually got sick and left. Now that I think about it, I never got a referral after that either. I did try out a few doctors on my own, but none of them were willing to address all of my issues in a single visit or allow me to ask questions. The clinic my insurance sends me to has a policy where you get 10 minutes per symptom, and that's it. You're screwed if the symptoms are connected to one another (like a serious illness) because they only treat them independently. The last doctor I saw was actually a referral from my T, and that lady was awful. She was an hour late, and when I got in the room to have my fractured rib looked at, she said she didn't have an x-Ray machine in her practice, and told me to go to a different doctor who does. Seriously? I said I had another issue going on, too, but she said she can only look at one symptom per visit. So I waited an hour for nothing. Now, when I'm sick, I just go to the walk in clinic, wait in the line, and eventually get seen by somebody. And every time they make me take a pregnancy test because they don't believe me when I say I'm a lesbian and I have never, ever had sex with a man and cannot be pregnant. If there are any good LGBT doctors in my area, I wish I knew about them.

I have never heard of a doctor's office only allowing to talk about 10 minutes per symptom/only looking at one symptom per visit. That is SO strange.

It was bizarre to me too! It's the way the University's medical center runs, which is free for me as an employee. If I go somewhere else (which I have done sometimes), it's out of network and therefore very expensive. I'll pay that when something is seriously wrong with me, but I can't afford it for routine medical care.

Wow, that sounds horrible. I had to use my University health center as a grad student and it sucked. Those places are obsessed with pregnancies. I knew girls who would go in with cold symptoms and be given pregnancy tests even though they swore up and down they were virgins. You would think they would at least change their "you're-a-girl-and-all-symptoms-mean-you're-pregnant" tune for someone who is an employee and not a student. Not that it's reasonable in any case.

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They test for pregnancies as a liability. It's not like they do not believe their patients. And not like they really think you are pregnant, they just must have a test on file. I've been tested for pregnancy when I had no sex life for few years, they still tested.

They test me now and I am going through menopause and my BF had vasectomy. It doesn't matter. They just go through motions to protect themselves

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Just made another round of calls, expanding my criteria once again. It feels like I'm holding everything in and exploding on the inside. Aaahhhh.

Do they have large psych clinic where you are at?

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