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Originally posted by PsychTau
WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!!!
Your REGULAR, CHOSEN doctor scheduled to induce you, wrote the order for pitocin, etc. You were on the drip for 3 hours, having contractions, and an ON CALL doctor d/c'd YOUR DOCTOR'S order?????!?!?!?!?!
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Yes. My OB is in a practice of 5 doctors. On Thursday, she called me at home after doing lab work and seeing me earlier that day. She told me that she had consulted the perinatologist and they both did not think I should wait any longer. She said they both thought I might have a seizure as my headaches and blood presure had only been getting worse. So, I went in.
I was given Cytotec Thursday night at 10:30 p.m. Friday morning at 5:30 a.m. they started the pitocin drip. Then, at 7:30 a.m., the OB on-call for my doctor's practice walked in, asked if I was contracting (all she had to do was look at the monitor), and instructed the nurse to turn off the pitocin until she could talk to the perinatologist and my regular OB. She told me she saw NO reason for being induced. She said she was calling my induction a FAILED induction and stopping it. I was told the EXACT opposite of everything my regular OB had said. The on-call dr. told me I DID NOT have PIH/preeclampsia, that my headaches were NOT caused by high blood pressure, and that my blood pressure was "high normal" and not "high"... She basically told me that she thought I had a good chance of ending up as a C-section if the induction continued and did not agree that it was the best decision. She also told me the perinatologist had changed his mind and agreed with her...
I asked to speak to my OB and she told me there was no need to b/c she had already spoken to her about it. I asked 3 times. I finally told her that if I did not get a call from my OB that I would call the clinic myself.
I got a call from the clinic scheduling my appt. for this coming week and asked to speak with my doctor. I was told they would let her know.
I STILL have not heard from her and she is on vacation this coming week...
I have absolutely never felt this abandoned by my doctors. I used to work with these people -- I KNOW them... How do they treat people they don't know?
I know this is long, but I tried to explain things as best I could...
Thanks to everyone for your encouragement... I have never needed it more.