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Showing posts with label IVF. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Urologist Visit

I went with my husband for his follow-up visit with the urologist. The back story to this is he had a SA done through the hospital in October which came back borderline/normal. Then he had 2 more done through our RE's office which came back iffy...high white blood count and low morphology...decent motility and okay count (until you take the morphology into consideration). Anyway, our RE had him on a 10 day course of antibiotics after which his WBC should have gone down. It didn't. The nurse told us most likely we need more antibiotics....the RE told us that is nonsense and it won't make a difference in his SA. So I thought we'd get one more opinion from his urologist. All I wanted my husband to do was to CALL the doctor and ask for his opinion over the phone. He couldn't connect with the doctor and refused to play phone tag so I just made an appt for him to go in and talk to the doctor in person. He agreed with the RE (antibiotics won't help us). And then....he said to me...."You need to breathe. Take a deep breath. You're gonna get pregnant. And if you don't, just do IVF. You know, you probably just need to get away to the Bahamas and you'll get pregnant. Stop worrying and relax." OMFG. I don't know what the look was on my face but my husband looked ready to restrain me in case I punched the doctor out. In most cases I would have cried. But I just laughed. I have heard all sorts of misguided advice, but never all lumped into one! This doctor needs a serious lesson in bedside manner. NEVER tell some with i/f to relax, or go on vacation, or JUST do IVF. Because if it was that simple I wouldn't be at your office now would I?
Oh, and then poor DH had to get poked up the ass as a preventative measure. Well that's what he gets for not following up on his phone calls.
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