Wednesday, 29 July 2015

No proof, advice or injections to be had

So, Doctor Gold Jewellery found nothing wrong with me apart from a vitamin B depletion, and subscribed me vitamin B injections and aspirin.

Let's start with the aspirin. I don't like taking medication, and I certainly don't want to be taking any for no good reason. I am the kind of person who doesn't take pain killers and by choice gave birth without any pain relief. So, the advice to take 100mg of aspirin daily required some research.

A quick google session (mainly looking for the opinion of for example IVF clinics and medical authorities) told me that taking a low dose of aspirin has not in fact been proven to reduce the risk of miscarriage compared to regular care. It may or may not have some effect because of increased blood flow to the uterus.

The doctor told me the embryo implants deeper into the uterine wall if you take aspirin and you are therefore less likely to miscarry. But actually conceiving was never our problem and there is as far as I can see no reason to think my embryos were too shallowly implanted. I suspect he's providing me with aspirin hoping for a placebo effect.

I eventually decided to take the stupid aspirin after all in a "it can't hurt but it may help" frame of mind, but I remain utterly skeptical.

Moving on to the vitamin B injections. I asked him why I had this deficiency, and what I should eat or do to avoid it. He seemed utterly uninterested in the question and didn't in fact have an answer for me. Then he looked in the test results again and said that my "live vitamin B is fine, but the stores are depleted". I am not entirely sure what that means, but I have in all honesty given up asking questions from this man. Instead I asked how I administer the injection once I have it, and he told me the pharmacy will sort that out.

I went to the pharmacy and they gave me the box but informed me that they can't administer it or sell me a syringe. My doctor has to do that.

Are you starting to see why I have very little confidence in this bejewelled little man? I went to my GP and she gave me the injection whilst muttering something about it all being very strange.


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