Would you complain about this gynaecologist

[Colabears1]

Went to visit gynaecologist at the clinic last week. While there the gynaecologist told me that what I had wasn’t linked to hpv and having the jab all those years ago wouldn’t have possibly prevented me from getting this. What I have is hob related and the jab could have possibly prevented it. She also said that she’s wouldn’t give her kids the hpv injection. I found that strange as surely being nhs doctor she shouldn’t be giving her anti vax opinion on the jab. Lastly what I was told by my gp and all of the internet was that it would go away on its own. She didn’t tell me this just kept on insisting she could remove it until I said won’t it go away in a few weeks. There is no harm in waiting for it to go but she was quite insistent about removing it. Then said I could come back next week once I change my mind.

Did she say why she wouldn't get the vaccination for her kids ?

I cannot understand what you have written

'While there the gynaecologist told me that what I had wasn’t linked to hpv and having the jab all those years ago wouldn’t have possibly prevented me from getting this.'

Getting what?

My daughter didn't have the HPV jab when she was a teenager as she didn't want it and I didn't want her to have it.

It's a personal choice and your gynaecologist was simply expressing her opinion.

No she didn’t say why just said she agreed with why my parents hadn’t let me have the jab and said she wouldn’t let her kids have it. What I have now is caused by hpv virus and my doctor and nhs website have all said the same thing. She denied it would have helped me and said it’s not caused by the hpv virus. I just don’t get why she was saying all of this when untrue.

What is it you have?

Me neither

Genital warts? They aren’t prevented by the vaccine. Waiting on them to go on their own can take a long time.

What is medically wrong?

From what you’ve said I would think she was trying to reassure you not to worry that you’d not had the hpv injection and now had this thing, to offer you a solution, and when you weren’t keen on what treatment she advised, said that you were welcome to come back if you changed your mind.

honestly you need to tell us what you have, you certainly can have cervical changes and cell changes from issues other than the hpv virus (even though the internet attributes cell changes mostly to hpv that's not always the case, many women experience cell damage from IUD strings for instance).
the hpv vaccine is relatively new and needs to be given very early on (prior to sexual activity based on what i remember learning years ago). being a relatively new vaccine i can certainly see how parents 10 years ago may have had concerns.
you can complain if you so wish but you will need to make your complaint much less cryptic.
if you don't like the dr's communication style request another.
if you want to blame your parents you will need to ask them directly what their reasoning was and understand what the general thought was x many years ago regarding a new product.

Without knowing what it is you have I can’t really understand what has happened here.

Your post is confusing and unclear OP.

@EC22 nhs and my doctor both said it would protect against genital warts sorry I didn’t want to say what I had incase it was outing but oh well

You can definitely still get GW with the vaccine, it just reduces the risk.

So basically I found what I thought was skin tags doctor said it was possibly a genital warts caused by the hpv virus. Since being pregnant it’s brought them out. Was told by the doctor once I’m done being pregnant that should go away or i can have treatment to remove them if they linger. She suggested I go to the clinic to get a proper diagnosis if I wanted. At the clinic I was told they would ever go away on their own and that the hpv vaccine wouldn’t have possibly prevented them. She also then said she wouldn’t ever have the vaccine or give it to her children. I obviously went away confused as I was told the vaccine would have prevented them and that’s what the nhs advised. My family denied us having them vaccine all those years ago and it’s caused some issues as my sibling and I have both had strains of hpv that couldn’t have been prevented but that’s another story and my family had there reasons at the time. I was just baffled as to why this woman was telling me facts that where untrue as had I not spoken to my doctor or looked on the nhs website I would have thought what she said to be true.

@ec22 I know it won’t fully protect you but it protects 90% of cases

Why is when someone says that they have done research and decided they don't want a particular medical treatment (vaccine) they become an anti vaxxer with all the connotations that go with that? What about deciding on what is right for your family on a case by case basis? My family didn't have the hpv vaccine or the Covid vaccine, but they had the meningitis vaccine. I did the research for each and made my own decision. I would never berate or look down on someone for having or taking any vaccine or drug. It feels so closed minded. I think we all do what is best for us, not others.

It’s really not pleasant but they do go away on their own, trust me! It took around 18 months which wasn’t great but I couldn’t face the treatment. It’s been 15 years and they’ve never come back.

What she’s said was right though, there’s no way of knowing that it would have prevented your case or not. She’s given her personal opinion probably to make you more at ease with your parents decision.

I don’t think it warrants a complaint in my ipinion but you could leave a comment- sometimes hospitals have online comment drops?

I had warts on my hand as a child, they do go away on their own. It took a couple of years though

how old are you @Colabears1 because the vaccine is relatively new on the scene and 10 years ago your parents may not have thought a new vaccine safe or worthwhile.
not all parents view their children as being sexual beings and assume they will make their own decision when discussing birth control with their physician when 16 or so at which time they can make up their own mind.

I do not know a lot about this, I'll say that from the off. However, the HPV jab covers against certain strains of HPV, some that cause cervical cancer. Genital warts are caused by a different strain of HPV and I believe it is only relatively recently that HPV jabs given cover for them. When the HPV vaccination programme was started some 15-20 years ago now, I don't believe the vaccine covered the genital warts strain at that time

Why do you think this? There has been no long term testing to show that vaccinated group A women have 90% less cases of warts than unvaccinated group B women ten or fifteen year later.

I’m just going by what the nhs state

Your GP sent you to the clinic to get a more accurate diagnosis and the specialist gave you conflicting advice. If the GP was 100% certain they wouldn’t have suggested you get a second opinion. If this was me, I would assume it was because the specialist works in the clinic which looks at cases like this every day and this more knowledgable than the GP.

You have the choice to leave them if you aren’t bothered about them, or if they are upsetting you, she has left the door open to have them removed. Personally I think complaining about this would be a bit unfair on the doctors.

There are over 100 types of HPV, 40 of them can affect the genitals. The initial HPV vaccine protected against 4 types, the new one protects against 9 types. Do you know which type you had?