NC for this as potentially outing.
Sorry for long post but I don't want to drip feed!
Since DS was born I've felt crappy, for first few months I just assumed this was normal post birth stuff (especially as that's what Drs, HVs & MWs kept telling me)
Roll forward to 9.5 months post birth and the pelvic pain is getting worse; just walking about town is now a massive painful chore and holding DS can be excruciating at times. Sex is tough.
Periods are heavy and painful and I am bleeding between periods too. I have frequent peeing and feel generally bloated and super super drained. I just cant seem to sleep enough and have gone off eating.
So I pop into see my GP who reckons it could be PCOS and so sends me for an ultrasound.
(now 11 months post birth)
Ultrasound comes back with Follicules on one ovary everything else looks fine. A different GP confirms it must be PCOS and tell me nothing they can do but perhaps a STI and Thrush swabs would be a good idea.
All come back negative.
I go back to see a different GP and this one tell me I need to lose weight as losing weight is known to help manage PCOS. At this point I break down in tears (I'm a size 6/8!!) as I feel like I am being dismissed and my extreme pain and tiredness is being totally ignored. GP tells me I need to just learn to cope with my "discomfort"
I decide to switch GP surgeries but unfortuently I am told I am not an emergency so I have a 3 week wait until I can book into see a GP.
(now 11.5 months post birth)
I am desperate so decide to pay £150 to go private.
Private GP diagnoses me with PID and anaemia within 10 minutes and is horrified that not one of the 3 GPs I saw spotted the classic symptoms of PID or even anaemia and that none of them even bothered to examine me. I am now on a 2 week course of 2 different antibiotics. GP reckons PID was caused from an infection during labour and anaemia from my heavy bleeding. She also said I do not have PCOS and that is the classic excuse that GPs like to lump everything under.
Anyway... after all that! I am feeling pretty pissed at my GP Practice for not having any GP that could diagnose me with this and none thought an examination would have been a good idea? I didn't feel like I was listened to or taken seriously with how much pain I was in.
On top of this I am now wondering if PID is what has been causing us problems with TTC for past 7 months (fully aware that isn't that long compared to other people but DS was conceived 1st cycle). I hate to think of what would happen to my fertility if I took GPs advise on lose weight and just put up with the pain!
AIBU to want to complain? And what exactly would I say or complain to or do I just take it as "one of those things?"