Re: 2nd Opinion (and anaemia)

[Guest guest]

It's extremely helpful when someone comes clean about a certain

person, place or problem, so women can protect themselves and get

something better. I guess sometimes doctors and other staff must

feel very much caught in the middle between colleagues and patients.

Because it's healthcare it makes such a difference to people's lives.

It sounds very promising that he respects your wish to have children

and takes the time to explain everything. I'm pleased for you!! If

you want children 'watch and monitor' with gynaecological advice and

Myomectomy sound like two appropriate options to me too, as a lay-

person. Assuming that the case and health history is cut and dried

with reassuring test results.

'He laughed and said; " You saw Dr.________ and you still

have a uterus? " '

The things we hear on these boards never cease to amaze.

Do ask the new gynaecologist about bleeding and surgery. They do

have various clever methods to control it, but if that was your last

gynaecologist's main concern, some reasurance from the new one about

how this will be controlled will be helpful to you.

It's not every day you hear a doctor recommend a trendy diet! I

suppose it is associated with quick weight loss and red meat is iron-

rich. Have a dip in Lark's books which focus on fibroid

symptoms and foods. A lot of the more general fibroid books may also

mention foods and fibroids. Lark writes in 'Natural treatment

of fibroid tumo(u)rs and Endometriosis(pamphlety book with bright

pink cover): 'Heme iron, the iron from meat sources like liver, is

much better absorbed and assimilated than non heme iron, the iron

from vegetarian sources. To be absorbed properly, non heme iron

must be taken with at least 75 milligrams of vitamin C' ( Lark

(1996)

In a paragraph on p.33, she discusses how a diet rich in saturated

fats may promote heavier bleeding.

So I guess if your bleeding worsens it's worth a look.

Hurray for finding a more appropriate gynaecologist!!

Aztek