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agent_daniScraping together some stuff from Twitter earlier...
So, if I hadn't used the known reputable online pharmacies I would be out of one half of my HRT, and have been so for several days. It's clear I have no hope of getting the prescription refilled before my appointment with the endo on the 16th of next month as the response of resounding silence has met both me and my pharmacy contacting the office in an effort to get a refill called in. I think what happened in this case is that she's using the prescription running out to enforce the next appointment. She wanted to see me in three months, and that's exactly when the prescription ran out, but she had no idea of her own schedule - so full it meant the next available appointment (accepting any time and day of week) was four months less four days away.
I cannot speak to intent, but the practice of my medical providers has been to stack and multiply the WPATH SOC requirements for HRT. I was required:
1: Three months of therapy to get my HRT letter.
2: Five additional months of therapy enforced by the endo. She refused to prescribe until the second office visit, requiring that I be in regular (at least monthly) therapy sessions in the meanwhile.
3: Three months RLE to finally be given access to a reasonable HRT dose.
Due to additional delays and the providers refusing to be direct about what they clearly required, the span from the start of #1 until the end of #3 was three years. And, obviously, that's ignoring stated desire by my current endo to undo #3.
So, if I hadn't used the known reputable online pharmacies I would be out of one half of my HRT, and have been so for several days. It's clear I have no hope of getting the prescription refilled before my appointment with the endo on the 16th of next month as the response of resounding silence has met both me and my pharmacy contacting the office in an effort to get a refill called in. I think what happened in this case is that she's using the prescription running out to enforce the next appointment. She wanted to see me in three months, and that's exactly when the prescription ran out, but she had no idea of her own schedule - so full it meant the next available appointment (accepting any time and day of week) was four months less four days away.
I cannot speak to intent, but the practice of my medical providers has been to stack and multiply the WPATH SOC requirements for HRT. I was required:
1: Three months of therapy to get my HRT letter.
2: Five additional months of therapy enforced by the endo. She refused to prescribe until the second office visit, requiring that I be in regular (at least monthly) therapy sessions in the meanwhile.
3: Three months RLE to finally be given access to a reasonable HRT dose.
Due to additional delays and the providers refusing to be direct about what they clearly required, the span from the start of #1 until the end of #3 was three years. And, obviously, that's ignoring stated desire by my current endo to undo #3.
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Date: 2012-01-31 08:27 am (UTC)Don't know much, do they?
It's obvious that 'CX syndrome' is not uniquely British. :o(
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Date: 2012-01-31 11:31 am (UTC)I'd just assumed that 'CX syndrome' was about trying to push as many people to go private as possible, partly to save NHS money but mostly for fear of toxic Daily Mail headlines about "how YOUR TAX MONEY pays for NHS sex-swap ops". Guess I was wrong.
(By the way Dani, this post is unlocked. Thought I'd give you a heads-up in case that was accidental, because it's about personal medical stuff.)
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Date: 2012-01-31 11:47 am (UTC)The Daily Fail never seems to remember that I pay taxes too!
I'm somewhat thankful that I never went near CX back then and from all I've seen since, it hasn't improved a great deal.
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Date: 2012-01-31 12:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-31 12:47 pm (UTC)Biscuits! :o)
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Date: 2012-01-31 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-01 03:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-31 08:37 am (UTC)It's time to really raise a stink, I think.
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Date: 2012-01-31 08:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-01 03:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-01 08:40 am (UTC)It is only 'ineffective' if they refuse to place you on a sensible (from our perspective, not theirs) dose.
I suspect that there is more than an element of 'please don't sue me' about all this, but my pshrink back in the day, the estimable Russell Reid, took the view that using HRT as a diagnostic from the get go was very useful- and he was right- a fair proportion of people were scared enough by the results that they never darkened his door again, but as for the rest of us..........:o)
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Date: 2012-02-02 11:20 pm (UTC)I have no doubt there are elements of that and other gatekeeping - that she didn't feel I was doing right in whatever ways (I know she was trying to demand I be FT to get proper HRT.)
The only medical angle I can figure is that my father had a heart attack a dozen years ago. However, this is clearly a case of privileging only the part of information that supports a biased view, as my father hand a number of dietary/lifestyle factors, which is to say poor diet and no exercise, that I have actively kept out of my own life.
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Date: 2012-01-31 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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