female only Need Opinion/Help-Birth Control & Minor Surgery Issue

[Taylor06 9]

I don’t know if this is the right forum to ask for advice on this and could possibly be TMI, but I could use help on this issue! I went to my OB/GYN doctor back in December, she wanted to take me off the “pill” because I take blood pressure medication-which I have been on since before I was on the pill and my blood pressure has been fine. Well she talked to me about Mirena and whatnot and said to track my cycle for 3 months and then come back and we would talk about what to do next. Now I loved this doctor-well in the meantime she has stopped practicing. She is older and the hospital she had office hours in was not accommodating. They are going to give me to someone else so I just went to another doctor outside of this hospital per my primary care. So needless to say coming off the pill has been a nightmare-I have my period from 11-14 days every time I get it and I only go about 2 ½ weeks in between. I go to the new doctor who sends me for a pelvic ultrasound. It turns out I have a Uterine Polyp that needs to be removed and small cysts on my ovaries that they are not worried. Unfortunately my new doctor is older and she no longer does surgery. So I had to see another doctor in the practice-so I had to wait for yet another appointment. I go last week (a week ago today) and we talk about the polyp and potentially getting Mirena-which after reading a lot of information about it, I decided I don’t want it. He told me to take care of the monthly flow problems I could get Endometrial Ablation, which would not solve my birth control problem, but would help out my monthly flow problem. Also, I can’t go back on the pill because of the sleeve surgery-which is not scheduled yet, but I have to take care of this first and my husband is getting RNY surgery before I get my “big” surgery. I was trying to get this out of the way which my new doctor said I could, but then when I go to doctor who is going to do the surgery he says he is booking 4-6 weeks out and that they would get in touch with me to book it. It’s a week later and I still haven’t heard from them. So I called the surgical booking person today and was told she was on the phone and to call back, I call back the second time and wait on hold and when they transfer me I get her voicemail and I left a voicemail for her. Do you think she called me back? No, and she left at 3. In my voicemail, I just said I wanted to have an idea on when it was because my husband is going to have surgery too.

So my questions for everyone out here:

Do you think I have a right to be angry at this point? I honestly think I should hear something quickly regarding a surgery, even though it’s not major I do have some anxiety over it because they do have to test the polyp for cancer.

I was wondering if any women went back on the pill after they waited the 2-3 months that the doctor wants you to wait after surgery and if so how are you doing with it? I just think I am too nervous at this point to get Mirena with all of the complications I have read. I know they are supposed to be rare, and the stats say 1 out of 100 women get them, but the doctor doing my surgery said out of every 10 women that get mirena-2 of them will want it removed. When I listed all of the complications he said he has seen all of them. Which if they are rare complications-you would think he wouldn’t have seen them all.

Sorry for the long rant, but I really needed to vent!

[HatheryOnHerWay 603]

My doctor never had a requirement for going off the pill or waiting to go back on. The big thing with the pill is the risk of blood clots, so I think every patient is different in whether or not they can go back on right away. Some people are at higher risk for blood clots than others, and some doctors are more conservative than others.