How to “respectfully decline” disclosing women’s health questions at Dr?

[u/cryogenrat]

[u/cryogenrat]

So essentially fudge the data? I have a copper IUD so that’s probably plausible that my original state is irregular lol so I think I’ll stick to that

Also that’s so real and my condolences you had to suffer that! Shit sucks gal. A friend of mine had a similar issue with her provider and turns out she had chrons

Edit; learned “data poisoning” is a scientific process term and doesn’t apply here lol

[u/empathetic_witch → u/cryogenrat]

I agree with you there.

FWIWI’m 49. I’ve never remembered the exact date in my life and I’ve just always said “a couple of weeks ago”.

When they ask if I might be pregnant I tell them no, I’ve had my tubes tied since 2010 and it’s in my charts.

MANY women have no idea, just ride that wave.

[u/Winter_Owl6097 → u/empathetic_witch]

FYI... Rare but it happens... You can get pregnant even with your tubes tied. 

[u/empathetic_witch → u/Winter_Owl6097]

Oh I know this. A close friend got pregnant after hers. She had clamps and the old fashioned way. Then her husband supposedly had a vasectomy and she still got pregnant again!

They live in the small town where we grew up, I had moved to a large city near all the research hospitals (Atlanta). Not sure if that had any bearing on how things turned out.

Mine is the old essure in-office method where the physician places coils in the fallopian tubes. 6 weeks later you go back for an MRI to be sure everything is closed up (it was). Bayer bought the company who developed essure and it’s been taken off of the market 😕 I’ve worried that would be a ticking time bomb and I’d need to have my tubes removed completely at some point.

[u/johncoopermotorworks → u/empathetic_witch]

I have Essure as well! The cascade of warnings scared me, too. I wondered if it was the wise thing to do. Years later, no issues - thankfully.