GP searching on Google!!!!

[Roseshavethorns100]

Hi to anyone who reads this post.
I was in my doctors for an appointment last week regarding getting hrt, told her I'd had a subtotal hysterectomy three years ago and listed my current symptoms, told her I just can't function properly anymore.
The next thing I know she's on Google reading out about the type of hrt that should be given after said hysterectomy.
Is this normal for Dr's to do? Am I wrong to be really annoyed about it?

Yep I completely get it. I’m astounded that women think this is acceptable.

Especially as you say you’ve had a hysterectomy - it’s important the HRT is correct - you want someone who has a little bit of knowledge in this area.

It’s just not good enough. If we don’t complain and make some noise about this nothing will change. And doctors will continue to know very little about something that affects 50% of the population.

I reckon I know more about HRT and menopause than most GPs..

The treatment is part of the appointment and necessary checks.

Menopause with a partial hysterectomy is no less common than with a total or no hysterectomy at all. Menopause comes either way.
The fact is menopause is as common as the cold and flu and they should know more.

Sorry for your loss.

I completely understand it, I've done plenty on research which I went in with but she just wasn't listening or interested in helping she was supposed to ring me herself but clearly couldn't be bothered.
She barely looked at my list of symptoms she barely answered anything even after looking on Google whilst I was talking to her.

Maybe you can help me then😊
I'm astounded too, but maybe you have to be going through it to understand it more, it's not plain sailing for so many women regardless of hysterectomy or not.
The misery of perimenopause and menopause is a big deal for many and it can and has ruined womens lives.
We have to be strong and advocate for ourselves because no one else will.

I had a pharmacist googling if medication I was prescribed was compatible to take together as the leaflets said not.

He said, 'well, it should be okay...!'

Menopause after a hysterectomy tends to happen within 2 years regardless of age.

The treatment with HRT is different depending if you have a womb, no womb + a cervix, no womb and no cervix, and no womb/ no ovaries.

Maybe find a different GP if this one didn't know what to do?
No point going over old ground unless you want to make a formal complaint to the practice.

I completely understand all of that.
I will be going to a different gp.
I won't make a formal complaint because she was on Google or ignored me. She has to live with her choices and will be held accountable for what she does.
It's not exactly worth a formal complaint even though I'm pissed of about how she handled things.

You missed one no womb + lower part of cervix + ovaries.

The symptom management is different depending on the persons reproductive organ status.

Only a small portion of women have partial hysterectomys. Not all women seek medical advice for managing symptoms of menopause.

Therefore advising on menopause symptom management to someone with a partial hysterectomy is not a common part of a GPs role. I wouldn’t expect much on any health matter other than the many times a week stuff to be done without double checking latest guidance.

You’re frustrated. Fair enough. Using reference material during an appointment isn’t a reason to be though.

(and neither is your viagra comparison that you’re fixated on. That’s a very straightforward medication with standard dosing and very few contraindications).

Regardless of hysterectomy or not the fact is that menopause has been around forever so they should know more. I'm not fixated on viagra being prescribed my point is that they have no problem when it comes to men's reproductive issues.
Furthermore the fact that women think this is okay is the reason this shit still goes on and women suffer for years without help.

Why?

Why not?

I mean, what's wrong with the nurse ringing you with blood test results?

She couldn't answer my questions!!

Well, neither could the doctor.
That's been the main focus of your thread.

She has to live with her choices and will be held accountable for what she does.

Live with her choices? Held accountable- who by?

There are no consequences unless you go back and explain your dissatisfaction.

Comparing menopause with erectile dysfunction doesn't work.
Viagra and other similar drugs have been available over the counter for years.

We al know that menopause is not treated properly by many in the medical profession but talking about it now for 5 days isn't changing anything unless you take it up with the GP.

And several posters have pointed out that your situation/surgery is not more specialised.

Hopefully, you will get the meds you need now.

I'm talking about the blood test here not the original appointment.
What point are you trying to make??

I am taking action for myself.
Talking about it in here for 5 days! Didn't realise anyone was counting if you're bored by it you don't have to read it!!

I'm not comparing the menopause and erectile disfunction, I'm comparing how male and female issues are approached by doctors.

For the record, men often have to fight for testosterone replacement. That is under-recognised by GPs.

I'm not defending the fact that many GPs know little about menopause and HRT, because that's true.

But at the same time you're not willing to accept that your case is slightly more complicated and that's why your GP looked online for help.

That you were moaning because a busy GP hadn't wasted their time phoning you with blood test results, when it's the nurse's job to do this.

Have you any idea how many test results come in to a doctors' surgery every day? It would take one GP all day to phone every patient to discuss their results. They'd have no time for anything else.

Oh ffs get of your high horse.
Do you think nurses aren't busy all day with heavy workloads?
What a bullshit statement to make🙄

I realise now that I should've given my post and poll a different title, it should have read "would you be annoyed"!!, because people clearly do not like the fact that I'm annoyed about it and I am entitled to be and will stand by that as that is my opinion.
Gp's in general don't want to do a whole lot since covid, they'll only give you an appointment at short notice if it's an emergency, you walk into the waiting room and there's only a few patients there so they're clearly seeing less patients in a day now and if it's not an emergency you could be waiting for nearly a month for an appointment and the waiting room is the same only a handful of patients. Very strange!!!