• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m a guy, so forgive my ignorance for this question: could you not have requested it? And by request, I mean push until they agreed?

    • Cat without eyebrows @lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I did try, they were like ‘we don’t have anything here’ and then it was down to ‘soo do you want to keep this appointment or try again next month?’ And I had a sitter with the kid and had taken off work so I sucked it up. Like they always expect you to. The next time I went so far as to talk to another Dr in the practice but I kept being told over and over it wasn’t done and isn’t necessary. Definitely check out the podcast ‘the retrievals’ to learn more about how women’s pain is treated in ob/gyn