Re:metrogel rant continued

[Guest guest]

Thanks Dee for the info about Metrogel and yeast. I did

know about he connection already, and it was given to

me not for yeast but for supposed bacterial infection,

which I did not have.

- your symptoms do sound like mine. My chunks were

NOT YEAST. This is what I am now still angry about. As

for your doctor not thinking metrogel could do this

damage, well, it did it to me. I am so angry that noone

paid attention about this at my gyn's. There is nothing

in the metrogel literature, as you said, about this

type of reaction. Yet there is a medical term for the

sloughing off of large numbers of cells, I beleive,

and I will ask my friend about it who is an NP in

womens health.

Somehow the makers of metrogel should be informed, or

at least doctors should be informed. Informing the

makers of metrogel wont work, of course, why should

they care, and besides if their trials don't show this,

it wont matter what the anecdotal evidence might be.

But what upsets me is that if doctors treat it as an

isolated incident, then they may not ever even make the

connection if it ever happens to another patient,

because, for example, the complaint may never get past

the nurses, who may call it yeast.

And contraryto what romantic notions we might have

formerly had about the medical field, doctors in

practices dont appear to routinely get together and

compare notes. So you may have a group of gyn's, each

of whom may have one patient with unusual symptoms of

one kind or another, Whether they match might be

irrelevant if noone ever BRINGS IT UP. SO this is how

vaulable information can get lost. Besides, hate to say

it, the focus in womens health appears to be almost

entirely on routine maintenance:pap smears, pelvic

exams, pregnancies, deliveries, standard std's.

Anything beyond that is a " specialty " .

I feel I probably should infrom my old gyn;s about this

allergic reaction and to look out for it in other

patients. Actually I should write them a letter letting

them know how uncared for I felt and the least they can

do is perhpas take note of my case and use it as a

point of rerference. I think I'll do that this summer.

One reason doctors dont learn sometimes is if they make

mistakes, patients are prone to leave rather than

challenge them. If they stay and challenge the doctors

they will be treated like " difficult " pateints. I

experienced this at the gyn's. So who wants to be

treated like that? So then you leave and they think

youre doing just fine because you havent come back.

Noone ends upmlearning excpet the patient and what the

patient learns is that sometimes noone wants to help.

ITs just too much effort, and littel return. Only a few

of us have mentioend doctors eager to be partners in

this frustrating process. We are being ghettoized by

the very group we are brainwashed into feeling we need

to run to everytime we have a discharge.

--

Thielke

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of the Greater Washington DC Area

" When a hostile force lands uninvited in our nations

capitol,

we don't greet them with tea and cookies! "