I went for a follow up appointment on my blood tests. They’re all normal. One was for my thyroid, one for anemia, and two covered other stuff regarding pregnancy. I had finally told a doctor about my fears of not being able to conceive, but because all four of those tests came out fine he decided in his tiny little mind that I’m just a hypochondriac. On my first visit I handed him a sheet listing all the symptoms of hypothyroid that I’m experiencing, and he humored me with blood tests, but when the test came out normal he just focused on one of the symptoms…DEPRESSION.

I told him on the first visit that the depression was not actual clinical depression like I’ve had in the past. It was more of a, I’m sick and therefore frustrated and depressed because I don’t have the energy to do anything. It’s not, my life sucks and I might as well not get out of bed because there is nothing I feel like doing anyway. His answer was simply to offer me antidepressants and suggest that the rest of my symptoms were due to stress. “Perhaps it’s the stress of trying to have a baby.” My head nearly exploded. Maybe it is stress, but I had already told him once that I’ve had these symptoms longer than six months, which is how long we’ve been trying to concieve. Not that I wanted to hide it but I’m sure my famous, “you’re a fucking idiot” sneer was showing. I really don’t have patients for stupidity. He has assumed that all these symptoms appeared AFTER I started trying to conceive and that’s just not the case. I even told him that at least one of the symptoms has been on going for TWO years and others for about nine months.

I’m not stressed about having a baby. I feel that I have a legitimate concern about not being able to conceive. When I was 22 I finally became pregnant after three years of not doing anything to prevent it and it ended in miscarriage. This retarded doctor didn’t ask any questions about it. He merely said that infertility usually isn’t suspected until we’ve been trying for a year and it’s only been six months, then he proceeded to tell me how to use the basil temperature method. He completely ignored my other attempt at pregnancy. I’m not at all impressed.

Ten years of education is completely useless if you don’t have the capacity to process information and reach alternative methods of solving a given problem without ignoring the key aspects.

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