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Okay, you remember back when I was complaining about being treated like a hot potato by my doctors? You know, the whole spotting thing plus my thyroid, etc and so forth? GP (General Practitioner) and OB (Obstetrician) were kind of passing me back and forth between themselves, neither willing to deal with my situation at that particular point in time.

Fast forward to today (or rather yesterday, since I’m sorta slow in posting this :blush), where *now* these very same doctors seem to be bidding my attentions. It started with the call from my GP, saying that my TSH was still a 2, but that she’d been talking to a Perinatologist about how best to treat my thyroid during pregnancy and that perhaps I ought to try to get in to see this perinatologist. After I explained I’d had a miscarriage, she suggested that if I got pregnant again, perhaps I could go back to seeing her for the pregnancy as long as I was also seeing this perinatologist at the same time. Didn’t sound like such a bad idea… I love my GP, even if I hate her waiting room, and I’ve seen her for two pregnancies so far, it’d be nice to follow through with her. Plus, I’d have the added bonus of seeing a peri, which I know wouldn’t eliminate all my anxiety (don’t think anything could do that), I know it would help some and at least I’d know I was doing all I could to ensure a healthy pregnancy. But damn, that waiting room!

Yesterday I had my follow-up post-op appointment with the OB. I love that office, I love that waiting room, even though we’re always the last people called back. (We think there’s a note on my chart requesting all nurses to call us back last.) Everything looks fine, she gave me the “all-clear” signal to start trying again as soon as we felt comfortable. She also told us the D&E went very smoothly, she didn’t even have to dilate me at all. Guess those laminarias worked. She said the pathology reports all came back normal, that there wasn’t any reason to think this miscarriage was caused by anything else than fate and perhaps some faulty development along the way. I don’t know if that’s comforting or not, becuase it’s hard to take comfort in knowing that lightning has just struck us twice (three times if you include the infertility; and I do). What’s to stop it from striking again?

Anywho, the OB said she’d love to see us back when we got pregnant again. That’s when we brought up the whole perinatologist and thyroid thing. As soon as we cleared up that we weren’t leveling any accusations about this last pregnancy, she told us that she could definitely work with a perinatologist should I get pregnant again. She also said there’s like five different tests we can run on my thyroid next time, make sure everythings copacetic. They don’t run these tests normally, since they’re rather expensive, but in my case, they may be warranted.

So now I feel as if I have these docs trying to outbid each other. The OB upped the stakes because she does have such a nice waiting room. :lol Well, I have plenty of time before I need to make a decision. But it feels so good, for once, to be the one in power when it comes to my health care.

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