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Re: Drs call for an end to 45 medical tests
Its lucky you don't have the NHS service in the USA - I mean, its much cheaper, but the service is terrible and you end up waiting in the waiting room for like 2 hours.
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I disagree with no paps until age 21.
I had an abnormal pap at age 19. I can't remember the exact terminology at this point b/c it was years ago, but it was the worst stage before cancer and growing very quickly. I had a colposcopy, biopsy etc and had to follow it up with a LEEP.
I continued to have paps every six months and developed the same thing AGAIN. I had to do a second LEEP.
Now, my current OB/GYN has told me that I might have trouble carrying a baby to term and will probably suffer from incompetent cervix.
However, there is every indication that I would have had full blown cervical cancer before age 21. I engaged in some risky behaviors as a young teen and after HPV typing definitely had one of the most dangerous strains that is likely to cause cervical cancer.
The other thing that my doctor told me is that in many young people, your immune system is able to sort of right off the HPV and that the abnormal things sometimes resolve on their own. But one of the things with college is that if you are crazy binge drinking all of the time and not sleeping that well and pulling all nighters, you are immuno-comprimised.
But this is just an anecdote. Also there is a poster on MM who I know had cervical cancer at something like 19 or 20.
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Plus how many weeks? My experience is an outlier.
lol, I was just messing about. It just struck me as amusing is all!
But to answer - no weeks. In my experience in the UK, you can get an appointment usually in a few days, but if you need it quicker you can go the same day and just wait. They do something like 7am-9am and 4pm-6pm every day just for people who need same day attention, but those times are first come first server, so you sometimes have to wait. Thats the doctors office btw, obviously, if you sawed off your leg, you get an ambulance or go to the hospital like here.
It does vary regionally tho.
It was amusing, Reeve.
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The woman who can't get an appt for routine bs with less than 4 weeks notice. At any dr. Ever.
Thats lame, I am sorry. Where do you live? I was in Essex, and it was alright. I mean, Essex sucked bum, but the doctors bit was fine.
All the recomendations are very logical from a medical perspective. However, all logic goes out the window when you are the patient and want peace of mind. From a cost perpective it makes sense. From a humanitarian aspect its harder to justify.
Not if you use the right one.
Anecdotal, but I have a lifetime history of SI and was in SI hell for about four months recently. Four courses of antibiotics, CT scan, ENT doc wanted to do surgery based on the CT findings.
But the only hospital where he has privileges is one I refuse to use, so I went to a new ENT doc. He puts me on a two-week course of Avelox, which is an antibiotic I'd never heard of. Got much better immediately, follow-up CT scan was NORMAL, no surgery needed and my SI hasn't been back (it's been over a month)
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Last time I took pudding to the doctor, there was this gross couple who was all fuzzy wuzzy with each other and not your standard PDA crap either. Dude was all snuggling against her like he was a small kid and she was his mommy. At one point, he wrapped his arms around her waist and tucked his head under her chin like she was going to pat his back to sleep.
It was sooooo weird given they were there with their 18 month old son. I half expected him to start sucking his thumb.
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