Med students: Should we maybe get more preparation for a common condition that can affect about half of the population at some point in their lives? Defenders of the status quo, I guess: Nah, that's what mom-experience is for.. If it isn't broken, don't fix it Meanwhile, every mom's frustration at the lack of pregnancy experience of her doctors: It's broken -_-
@@kristend344 you’re literally better off googling it as an OB/GYN I can tell you the last motherfucking person I called is the pharmacist just saying I referred to the books the studies the statistics, because most of my colleagues are average intelligence and most of yawls doctors and pharmacists are average intelligence and average at best skills. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I can throw them fuck no especially in United States buncha dumb motherfuckers made it through medical and pharmacy school in this country and it’s alarming
Yeaaa, I’m laughing, and crying at the same time… because this is so true. Always call the PHARMACY. A wise nurse instructor always said, “ you don’t need to know everything, But you Need to know Where to find out What you don’t know”
This is why I tell my child that she needs to learn how to Google. She can find everything there. I googled how to clean Velcro like 2 days ago. Also, google can tell you who or where to ask, at the very least
Wise Nurse is very wise. Know you can't know everything. Just admit it to yourself. Then find the answers by asking or reading. Nurses will know how to help you. 👩🏽⚕️🛌🧑🏻⚕️👨🏼⚕️❤
Honestly as a med student I forgot you can ask other professionals for help. They always act like we need to know everything or the patient will die...
As someone who was pregnant just over a year ago, I REALLY felt that! Trying to get any medical treatment that wasn't specifically for the fetus/baby was as productive as hitting my head against a brick wall.
Doctors are very cautious about hurting a developing baby in the first trimester of pregnancy, but if you neglect to treat a pregnant woman who's having health problem(s), then you are hurting the baby!!!!! The developing fetus is totally dependent on it's biological mother, so she needs to be as healthy as possible for her growing baby in utero. If the mother has untreated pneumonia due to an infection, then the developing baby may be seriously affected by the mother's pneumonia as well. There are antibiotics which are safer to use during pregnancy, along with tylenol and oxygen during the first trimester. Then give her a safe prenatal vitamin/mineral supplement to take home after she gets better.
Yup! In America once you are pregnant you cease to exist and your rights do too. You no longer can have ANY medical treatment unless for the baby. You no longer have any control over your body and even strangers from Walmart will come up and touch your stomach without asking. On a regular basis! You also are no longer considered to have a brain and will be infantilized as an incapable idiot and not allowed to make decisions for yourself. America is a dumpster fire!
And then they send them to the OB floor where they are not trained for med/surg issues, which causes a delay in proper care and poor outcomes. There needs to be better training in all aspects of medicine.
It’s amazing how those meds orders get handled & filled by actual people who know all sorts of things about them & have resources at their fingertips to learn more… They’ve got this exotic name… Pharmacists! Yeah!
Yeah I was going to say that. If you prescribe something to a hospital patient and the pharmacy doesn’t like it, you’ll know. And they won’t fill it. They’re also super careful. I struggled to handle pills in my 1st tri and when I was hospitalized, I asked if I could take my gummy ones and had the bottle so they could look at it. They wouldn’t allow it. Why? I don’t know, but I trusted their word over my own.
@@Maebb. yeah of course. Pharmacy school is comparable in difficulty to medical school. They are a vital part of the healthcare team. They’re not just “fancy cashiers” in the slightest.
@@Maebb. Yeah, they have to train to know all the drug interactions, what is safe for what people, etc. They'd usually know what's safe for pregnant people.
@@athenarocks7657 i recommend always keeping onion powder. Doesnt go bad so it last way longer than fresh onins and works in a pinch when im out of the real ones
Pharmacist are amazing. They discovered a medication contraindication that had been routine for this patient for years. After the fix the patient was more alert and healthier. This also taught me and the nurses there that we should question all medications until we audit them ourselves.
Instead of reading that last sentence as he had many patients who were drs, I first read it as you being sarcastic saying he had to have a team of drs to help him take care of his patients because he was “so good” 😂 I was scratching my head there for a minute. I guess my brain stopped readingcomprehension.exe for a few seconds. 🤷♀️
My aunt saw a neurologist not too long ago for possible symptoms to MS. Her eye Dr suggested it for to her list of issues and vision problems. Every 5 minutes he'd stop talking to ask if my aunt understood anything he said and she'd tell him no. He would explain again and it still went over her head. All she understood was she should fire her eye Dr but the results were inconclusive. She essentially left more confused than when she got there.
i had brain surgery. my aunt is an oncologist and happened to be in town at the time. she visits, asks questions i don't know. i call the nurse. my aunt speaks Doc, and the nurse is like, "i'll get the doctor". my aunt talks to the doctor, and he looks like he's trying to divide by zero. Finally they got my neurosurgeon's office on the line, he explained to the doc in some other doc-language what it is my aunt wanted to know and what to show her (my CT scan).... (all knowing that i had signed a permission/release for them to talk to my aunt)... she saw what she needed to see, dismissed them and looked at me lovingly and said "you're gonna be ok. everything is ok". i was just happy that she was happy with the result of everything. i had the impression she would have gone all Terms of Endearment on someone if they didn't do a perfect job
I recently had a yeast infection while pregnant and I panicked because I didnt know what I could take. I work at a Walgreens and am really good friends with one of my pharmacists so I asked him. That man gave me an incredibly clear answer in less than a second. God bless you Dwayne, you are a saint because I was having a full blown panic attack.
Opposite experience.. I was having extremely terrible constipation first trimester..my mom went to the pharmacy to ask what's safe over the counter during pregnancy..he told my mom..... Then as she's walking away he said OH I FORGOT YOU SAID SHE WAS PREGNANT... DEF NOT SAFE. Thank god he remember before she waked away
I was almost full term when I developed bad allergies. The typical itchiness, runny nose, couldn’t breathe, etc. but it was just felt worse maybe because I was pregnant…My Doc prescribed me an allergy need. Went to the pharmacy where they lmk the me was NOT safe in pregnancy 😮😮😮. I was so very thankful for them speaking up.
@tiffanythomas7183 I have a hypermobility disorder that causes horrible IBS, I can't fathom navigating chrons and pregnancy. I'm sorry your religion imposes that upon you.
@NeighborhoodOfBlue I am sorry you believe everything is religious and that non-religous people like having kids. I guess my friend with 18 live births will make you shake and shiver.
Just to be a Debbie Downer, pregnant people die for this very reason. I spoke to a woman who had a stroke during pregnancy and she was simply sent to OB where they monitored the fetus ONLY and said "baby looks good, you can go home!" Instead, her husband took her to a better hospital where she was actually treated for the stroke.
@@heidi3963 saying pregnant people instead of pregnant women insinuates that men can get pregnant. That is scientifically incorrect. Transexual men are still women
All of this is SO TRUE!!! I was sick incessantly during both pregnancies, and the GPs never prescribed things that my OB was comfortable with in any way so she started seeing me for cold and flu🤦♀️
The general rule is if a patient is pregnant, whatever the complaint is even if it’s just punctured wound, animal bite, cold, electrocution, trauma, whatever else you can think of, the OBGyne is the one who should see the patient. If the case is too complex for the OB then the OB can ask for help or refer the patient to another specialist. But yes OBGyne checks pregnant patients even if it’s just a cold or flu.
Right most doctors refuse to admit that the don't know everything! Doctors could do so much better if they actually listened to the person living inside if the body they are attempting to treat instead of glancing at them once or twice while briefly reviewing a generic chart and while spending the least amount of time with them professionally possible. Then scribbling a bs script "mmm, mmmhmm, yeaah, k. Try this for 30 days." 30 days later still have same issues plus this other thing has been giving me trouble. "Ahhh. Ok here's a script for that. come back in a month" next visit same original issue but now really nauseous all the time. " I see. Take these as needed" and let's try sumn new for problem." See me in 30 days.. no wash. No rinse. Just stack scripts, waste years of your 20s, suffer from side effects, get fat, can't sleep, fall into depression and all you needed was a good probiotic/prebiotic gummie vitamin.
Every time anyone was ever wrong with me my primary would say, you're pregnant you need to contact your OB 🤦♀️🤦♀️ even for things she should handle regardless.
@@StefanieB22 "Ma'am my uterus is fine. You're my primary." Genuinely can't imagine going for something completely unrelated to my pregnancy and being sent to the "pregnancy dr". I get that other things could relate, but not *all* things 😭🤣
Obgyn- I’m dying. This is 100% accurate and not even an exaggeration. Always just consult OB. Bonus points if you know how many weeks she is. You lose doctoring points if you tell me her gestational age in months though.
@@mellissamercado7904 saying 4 months is a lot less accurate then saying something like 18 weeks (4 and a half months). It’s just a way to standardize information to be as informative as possible while also easy to understand. 4.25 months is less clear then 17 weeks.
@@mellissamercado7904a baby is going to look a lot more different at 16 weeks than they are at 19 weeks, even though they are technically still “4 months”… Things change a lot week-to-week, so for measuring baby’s progress and making sure milestones are met during the pregnancy, weeks is a lot more accurate… You start measuring age in months after baby is born, up until they turn 2, usually.
I remember being pregnant and no one caring about my pain or illness. I wanted a healthy baby as well but I’m also a person that deserves some consideration. Especially because if I were to go, the baby would too. I’m so glad I finally convinced a doctor to tie my tubes. It took three living babies and two stillbirths. Even then I had to fight for it.
I was hospitalized with Covid at 9 months pregnant during the pandemic and have to give a huge props to the head of the infectious disease unit. He calmed me down and answered my millions of questions about convalescent plasma (it was experimental and hadn’t been tested on pregnant women) and personally visited me through my entire stay. I think it just depends on who the doctor is.
It's even worse when you have to be treated for anything gynecological related. At least in my area, almost all of the OBGYNs seem to have slept through the GYN part of their training. While the waiting room is filled with pregnant ladies. I did finally find some that are a bit more experienced. But that was after seeing 4 OBGYNs in just a couple months.
Shit I'm 21weeks 4days with my 4th little boy, have chronic health issues on top of chrons they aren't treating because of the pregnancy and I go through days of non stop vomiting pooping mucus and blood etc go to the er they send me home saying it's morning sickness.
my mom’s a pharmacist and EVERYONE we know comes to her for medicine questions. they go to school for all those years for a reason, just call the pharmacy 😭
For real, the difficulty of pharmacy and medical school (at least here in Germany) is almost the same, but still everyone acts like doctors know everything, and pharmacists are just cashiers, even though medication is literally THEIR LIFE
Accurate! I had an ear infection during my pregnancy. A really bad one 😢 and I went to urgent care for it. The Urgent care doctor took FOREVER trying to find an ear drop that she could technically prescribe me and it ended up being an out of network drop that would cost wayyyyyy too much. When I called them to tell them this they said they couldn’t prescribe me anything else because it “wasn’t safe” and that I should ask my midwife to prescribe me something different. So I ended up having my midwife prescribe me an ear drop for my ear infection. Generalists are really scared of prescribing anything that could potentially harm a baby in the womb.
:-) Absolutely! BUT, such incompetence in an EM doctor is concerning. Checking Google or checking with a pharmacist is better than giving poor or dangerous care, but these are fairly straightforward.
Exactly. I never knew but most family doctors don't know what medicines interact negatively with eachother. Thats what the pharmacist is for. They look over your meds and make sure they all work together
As a nurse, I really love pharmacists. Every pharmacist that I have ever worked with always seems so happy to answer my questions and are so nice and helpful. I think pharmacists are the most approachable people in medicine. Thank you guys.
Literally I went in for an intense cough that was leaving me gagging and nauseous after every cough attack and when I went in they did a chest X-ray, determined it wasn't pneumonia, and then couldn't do anything else for me and suggested I just drink tea 🙃🙃🙃 when I called the nurse helpline where I was recommended to the hospital, she only listened to the part where I said I was nauseous and dizzy, not the cough, and told me to go in for a fluid IV 😑😑😑😑 I got the fluid IV after my husband making me ask for it and I was only on it for 30 minutes until my discharge papers came in. I was there for 6 hours and starving and asked for a snack which I was originally told would be brought to me, waited an hour and eventually went home without a snack and got my own food 🤪 I hated that visit so much
@@jeniferjohnson374No, but a slightly raised (not high) blood pressure can be normal. A woman’s body can have as much as 1.5x normal blood volume during pregnancy. For some women it raises a little bit :)
@@lexinicole4317 Sorry but this is misleading, while the blood volume in pregnancy does increase, the hormones produced in pregnancy relax muscles and ligaments, including those within blood vessels - which causes them to widen, causing blood pressure to actually decrease a little bit in pregnancy in general. Rising blood pressure in pregnancy is something that needs to be monitored to ascertain that it is not developing into something like pre-eclampsia.
Honestly, it was the ER doc and not the OB that figured out I had postpartum HELLP syndrome. All of the folks in the maternity ward thought my symptoms were normal post-delivery hardships. Nope, my liver was trying to shut down. Thank God for a fresh set of eyes and thinking.
@@missingallmymarbles7670 yeah I'm was very sick at some point that I had to do a lot of chest x-rays and I was in biochem grade (well it was 10-11 years and we studied biology and chemistry a lot, I don't know how it's called in English), and I asked doctor about the radiation, and they said that one chest x-ray can get you as much radiation as sunny day, so it's not really harmful, but yes, If you have a baby they often do a CT scan in my country or they protect the uterus with a lead sheet of some kind
Ended up going to the ER at about 7mons pregnant with severe stomach/back pain. They were going to send me home and put it on just growing pains. It was my 3rd and knew something was right so when i questioned it they offered to atleast do an ultrasound to make sure the baby was fine. The ultrasound tech ended up spotting a large kidney stone that needed to get surgically removed. It took them a bit to figure out how to even do the surgery since usually patients are put to sleep
I was so thankful my grandma who was a labor and delivery nurse was with me during the time I was in labor! The nurse was to scared to alert doctors of my heart rate and baby’s oxygen scans. My grandma stepped in and the dr actually kicked his nurse off assisting and had my grandma assist. She saved my life I legit slipped into a comps after birth and she knew what to do to save me! As weird as it wa having my grandma check my dialstion and see everything I’m so happy she was their to save not only me but my baby’s life!
@@metamorphicorderIf they're a licensed nurse and it's an emergency I'm pretty sure you can still do that and no one will be offended... Except you, apparently.
As a patient I can tell you this is so true. An X-ray tech nearly fell over when she asked me if I was pregnant and I said yes. She asked if I told the dr and when I said yes she left to go make sure that the dr really did know. She was so shocked when she came back and said that I was telling the truth and the dr was aware. Meanwhile I’m sitting there with pneumonia wondering how nervous I should be since everyone around me seems so nervous. When I phoned to tell my OB the diagnosis and told her about the X-ray she laughed and said that it was definitely ok that I had the X-ray. Untreated pneumonia would have be much worse than the X-Ray. She said everyone is always so afraid to do anything to a pregnant patient.
They're scared because over exposure to radiation, like x-ray, can cause birth defects. But having it once during pregnancy doesn't really hurt anyone. Everyone just wanted to be careful.
@@hanacastle22 Don’t get me wrong, I appreciated that they were being careful. Truly! But the look of absolute shock and horror on the X-ray tech’s face when I said I was pregnant definitely made me go from wondering if I should be worried to wondering if I should be freaking out. I was very thankful that my OB was able to calmly explain, just like you did, that one X-ray wasn’t going to cause harm.
I know people lie about things to hospital staff, which is stupid, but that's another story. But for the tech, say, you were telling the truth? Uh, yeah. I know.
I started working in medical at 16 and did for 17 years. I did a lot of med reviews for my residents/patients, a ridiculously high amount of med reviews. My doctor now has no idea how to treat me, neither do the specialists and the ER has almost killed me multiple times. It has gotten to the point that my doctor just asks me what meds I want or need or would like to try and he just goes with it. My reactions to even normal medications is insanely random and Ive been to dozens of specialists. Now if we end up in the ER, my husband either has to be with me or they call my doctor in if Im not conscious so they can monitor what i am given. This video is ridiculously accurate about my medical care.
As someone who has worked in pharmacy for over 8 years, this is the reason why there is a whole team on a patient's case. No one expects the doctor to know everything, so why do doctors think they have to?
Ugh, sadly accurate. I was on psych meds when I became pregnant. Although it wasnt planned, my husband & I wanted kids eventually and were happy. I asked my psychiatrist the safest way to get off my meds. He was annoyed and said "I don't deal with pregnant women" and he never saw me again- nor did he send a referral. When I asked my ob-gyn, he also got annoyed and said "I don't know, I'm not a psychiatrist! I guess stop taking these meds." So I did- cold turkey, with no medical guidance. Everything turned out OK in the end- but now that I'm older I realize how dangerous this could've turned out. At the time, we had medicaid, so I really didn't have the option to switch. It sucks how different I'm treated by medical professionals now that I have a grad degree and a job with private insurance. They treated me like I was a nuisance. That was a decade ago and it still makes me angry.
As it should- that was negligence on their part! I’m so sorry that happened to you. And you’re right- you do get treated different with private insurance and a high degree.
I was not trying either after seven miscarriages and his stillbirth I was kind of done and surprise my fourth kiddo and my only daughter came along I had to rapid wean off of my meds and luckily my psychiatrist and my psychiatrist and my OB actually work together It was The first and last time it ever happened to me I don't know why doctors resist talking to each other but boy do they. And this is about how much information in ER doctor or general family doctor is really going to know.. azithromycin is fine and pregnancy although most of them just do amoxicillin to be safe and the fluids are fine. Lol forget asking anybody else you should just ask someone who's had a baby probably not your mom because that was a while ago doc
At least theyre talking about it, they just ignored my pneumonia for three months. It wasnt until i started sobbing inbetween coughing that they finally at least listened to my lungs instead of telling me i had allergies and sending me on my way with cough syrup. They actually asked me "how do you jnow youre having fever and chills?"
I went to the urgent care for an issue while pregnant. They prescribed a medication and turns out, it was NOT safe at all while pregnant. Despite them saying it definitely was safe. Glad my pharmacy keeps track of pregnancy and such.
I really liked my dads doc because my dad needs a mix of meds everyday and this dude whenever my dad needed something extra for other reasons he would take out a book to look if it's safe for him. He looked like a mad scientist, but was super effective.
My wife is an OB/Gyn resident and says this is incredibly accurate. So many consults are "She's bleeding down there?!" "Yeah, she's on her period." or "There's nothing we can do about her nausea cuz she's pregnant, right?" "No, we can still give her medicine."
...you can still do xray when you're pregnant, they just put a double vest over you and do it as quickly as possible. i had to have two when i was pregnant because i fell and hurt myself a couple of times
@@karamarie6578 I know you can use a lead vest, I’m a rad tech myself, but it’s not always possible due to the area of interest in some cases. I’ve only x rayed 2 pregnant people in my career since they really needed that x ray and I still feel guilty about it even though I shielded. X rays should only be done when the mother’s life is at risk, like in those two cases. In this case, trying to shield the belly bump would not show the costophrenic angles of the lungs in the x ray, covering anatomy of interest and possible pathological findings. Hope this helped! 🩵
That’s how it is in large hospitals. However, unfortunately in small rural hospitals this isn’t always the case. Three of the hospitals in my area don’t even have an OB ward. However the local LVL 1&2 trauma do!
At my hospital you stay in the ER with regular drs unless you're over 16 weeks. With my daughter I had a threatened miscarriage at 14 or 15 weeks and I was kept in the ER. Any problems I have ever had while pregnant I was just told they couldn't do anything bc itd probably kill the baby (after talking to an ob I find out that no in fact it would not), and I was sent home. It starts early too. With my daughter I was really sick before I got my positive but was late on my period. I couldn't breath well and my heartrate was in the 160's and they refused me treatment.
This is so true as an old labor and delivery nurse, they didnt want to touch our patients. And if it was an emergency i would coach the ER doc on what to do.
As a recently pregnant woman I can assure you we know you're panicking and it comes off less like "I don't know" and a lot more like "I'm cool for you to be in a lot of pain because only the baby matters."
Yep. Infuriating. Women get written off so quickly because we can't possibly know our own bodies well enough to tell the difference between something that's actually wrong and being pregnant, having gas, constipation, or just being on our periods. But then when we ARE pregnant, forget it... we're not even people, anymore; just a disposable vessel.
Yeah I wish doctors would say what they mean. What do we do to them that makes them that way? It’s not complex to say, “hold on, I have to triple check because I don’t usually treat pregnant women.”
My wife had a panic attack of epic proportions when she was pregnant and we had to take her to the emergency room. The doctors refused to give her anything. Our obgyn was so angry when he found out.
Pretty sure "stress" (I'd imagine it'd be catigorized as such) is like.. pretty damn bad for the baby. They could have asked the pharmacy what's okay to prescribe.
on one hand i can empathize but on the other i dont really blame the doctors. Damn near every medication on earth seems to have a blurb saying to eitehr not give it to children or pregnant women, or that it has an unknown effect on children and pregnant women, which is the drug companies way of say "if you give this to a pregnant woman and her skeleton falls out then that's on you Mister Doctor". That sort of stuff makes you crazy paranoid since if 99% of meds say stuff like that even if you find something that's listed for use with women infected with a human parasite it makes you wonder if it's really safe or if it's another Thalidomide.
This is why I love family medicine doctors. You can go see them for everything and they’re actually really knowledgeable about women’s health and pregnancy.
This is sooo accurate with doctors today... Why I love old school doctors or one who keep up with medical journals they are rare if you find 1 keep them!!!
Omg. I’m a midwife and I swear this is literally what doctors are like if a pregnant woman comes in. They have no idea what to do with them. So they try to send them to Ob when their problem isn’t pregnancy related 🤣😭
im convinced all medical professionals need distinct training in the field of medical help during pregnancy, bc at this point its just a bunch of people running around confused
And they spend all that money and time and years and years and years of their lives and get all this money but can't figure these things out?... I could just google it and probably find out faster ... I noticed this with doctors when it came to medicines the research I did on them was more thorough than any knowledge they had .. they just kinda go through the motions and don't actually care ..no offense to any doctors or nurses or anything but ..
As an OB/Gyn, I relate. Pregnant women scare everyone who isn't an OB. NO, she should NOT be admitted to OB since she's in first trimester and has pneumonia! Pregnant women are not incubators... Please treat the Mom! But, YES, call OB for consult and please know the gestational age! Those antibiotics both safe in pregnancy, as is Tylenol. And, IV fluids! (That seems obvious!)
When I was pregnant with my second baby I got bit by ants. I am allergic. The doctor's were worried about treating me with anything. This video is very accurate.
I swear no one wants to do anything to treat the mom when she's pregnant. I usually felt like a vector for my daughter and not an actual person with they way I was treated.. I know they want to make sure baby is OK, but don't forget mom is a full human with feelings and symtoms that deserve to be treated as well.
I really believe it has waaaay more to do with liabilities. They use caring about your baby as a front excuse because they expect it to get the emotional understanding/agreement they’re looking for so they can punt you off.
Yea you ARE the vessel for your child. And you SHOULD feel like it. And you should feel HONOURED to do it. You should also ALWAYS be MORE focused on your child than your own selfish wants. Otherwise don't have kids. I have two forms of a pain condition so bad they're named SUICIDE diseases. I went through LITERAL HELL. That's not because the dr's just don't care. It's because of tragedies like the thalidomide children, we have one in my family so are MORE than aware of the destruction caused by drugs in pregnancy. You clearly don't have a CLUE how fragile your baby is to outside influences and the damage caused. Would like to live with knowing that your child is only physically and mentally disabled because YOU refused to wait a few months for drugs. They're not just being assholes and neglecting you. 🤦♀️🤷♀️ It seems like they cared more about YOUR unborn baby and their safety, welfare and their future health than YOU. Never seen a GOOD mother complaining about not getting drugs in pregnancy. I know women that had serious car crashes and broke bones and never even touched a paracetamol. One woman had to have a surgery and didn't take a single thing. And if you're demanding mood drugs and antidepressants then you're even WORSE. They DESTROY the growing brain and GUARANTEE the kid ends up with serious mental health issues and also GUARANTEE that they'll end up addict's unable to function in society. It causes them to be extremely violent and constantly full of rage. They also DRASTICALLY lower IQ which only adds to the already inevitable terrible life choices. If you're a single mother as well you may as well just sign them into prison at 16. 😂 The selfish choices you make in pregnancy can kill your baby and destroy their body and mind which OBVIOUSLY destroys their chances of EVER having a normal happy life. The ONLY thing that matters when you're pregnant IS YOUR BABY'S LIFE, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS! Yes that means you're SECONDARY for 9mths. If you can't even cope with that then you're a terrible selfish person who frankly doesn't have what it takes to be a parent and I pity the child. And society that has to act to fix your selfish choices. Again if you can't put yourself aside for such a small amount of time you've got some serious issues and you are probably a narcissist. But hey most of you kids are today. 🤦♀️🤷♀️ if you are then the VERY LEAST you can do is NOT inflict it on children who will then inflict it on society and our children.
@@cececox6399 Part of it depends on what part of gestation that ‘whatever’ problem happens to the mother in. If the mother dies, the baby will too. If somehow, the baby survives… who is going to care for it? Keeping in mind that there may not be other relatives, for whatever reason? And, I know that it can be put up for adoption, after likely time in foster care, which can be less than great
This explains so much... i had severe kidney infection and found out in the ER i was preggo. I ended up admitted for 2 months and doctor was freaking out because i was getting septic. They told me my only hope was a "drug of last resort" because it could cause birth defects 😢 it was a terrible choice. But i was literally going to die without it and if i died, my baby died too. I took the drug, but STILL wasnt improving 😱 Finally one morning i just woke up (after being unconcious for a few days) and i was better! Just like that! And my baby was born healthy 😀
I was most amazed by a prominent ER doc I was dealing with who was proud of the fact that he did not consult the PDR (physicians desk reference). And then I found out how common that attitude was. Another physician had me on a year of an anti fugal medication, only to find I was on a years prescription, but at one tenth the required dose. He just did not bother to check the requirements in the PDR. But a later physician would not prescribe an anti fungal at all, on the presumption that I would just get infected again in the future. Of course, he still expected to get paid for his none service. I don’t know who who’s worst, neither being any good. It’s a pretty good gig when you don’t have to put any time or thought into your treatments, but just rely on reflex and what is easiest for you, the clinician.
During my clinical days as an LPN nursing student, anytime I couldn't remember specifics of a medication, I would always look it up if I had time. If I didn't, I would ask my nursing instructor since they had to be with us when we handled any medication. Two of the main things anyone in healthcare should know and remember is: No one knows everything (I've seen seasoned nurses like 20+ years of experience have to look things up) and if you don't know, ask because that one question could save that patients life.
Yes! I loved hearing Dr Mike admit they have to look things up all the time. I'd *MUCH* rather a doctor admit to themselves they don't have all of the information in the world than attempt to treat me based on limited information.
As a woman, it's kinda appalling honestly. Pregnancy is not some weird rare disease, it's a common human health condition. The fact that general medicine doesn't know how to address fever in a pregnant woman is honestly horrifying (but not far from the experiences of many pregnant women I know).
It’s more that pharmaceutical companies don’t test on pregnant women for obvious reasons and prefer to label their meds not feasible for pregnant or breastfeeding women because they don’t want to be sued.
Agreed. It’s mostly because almost no pregnant women wants to enter into a clinic trial, so there’s very little research on the effects of medications on pregnancies
I had to go to an urgent care during my second trimester and thankfully the lady who treated me knew exactly what to do as she's worked in and ob office and had children herself
“I tried calling [OB] but they started asking me a lot of questions I didn’t understand so I just hung up. Something about gestation??” Nearly just spit out my drink at that one. 😆 😆
Omgg this is so true, I'm a last year med student, and I'm currently rotating in pediatrics, and omg that's so much information and you have to examine all those abilities in a child, otherwise you might not catch a development disorder 😑
@@karlacalvillo3092 As a parent, i always just lie on those questionnaires. You all overpathologize a lot of stuff lol. IRL Example>> Doc: OMG your 4yo can't cut out things with scissors?! Me: Uh, no. Because if I let him have them, he'll be trying to cut his sister's hair the moment I turn away to check on his other sister, so I don't let him have them in the first place. Doc: Oh, well your child has a developmental disability. Me: you obviously have a developmental disability. Not sure you should be without a wrangler at all times. Can you point me to your adult?
I was actually almost shocked when the hospital actually gave one of our OB patients painkillers after a car accident fractured her collarbone. Baby was perfectly fine
I find this very relatable. I am 9 months pregnant. I actually found that even my obgyn did not handle my “special needs” correctly. I had gastric sleeve surgery done. Because of this I do not absorb some essential vitamins and minerals correctly. Going into second trimester, my B-12 levels were 4.2. That is astronomically low. It is needed for iron utilization in the body. I kept telling them im tired all the time, I can’t do anything. Im practically bed bound. They didn’t quite know what to do about my nutrient levels and just kept telling me “you are only a LITTLE anemic”. Turned out to actually be a big problem and didn’t get the correct intervention until I insisted and went to a hematologist. In my third trimester…our baby is healthy, but sometimes even the doctors who should know, don’t know. As an aside note: I myself am a board certified medical professional. Not a GP or OBGYN however.
This literally happened to me 2 weeks ago. I was 22 weeks pregnant, had pneumonia and it caused me to have an asthma attack. Ended up in ICU, intubated and they put me to sleep for 4 days. I was in hospital for 2 days before i had the attack, they just didn't know what to do with me until I had the asthma attack 💁🏾♀️
This guy is going to be someone that patients will want to see and who will take good care of them. He's not afraid to tell it like it is even in an exaggerated or humorous way and that's always a sign of a person who is smart enough to be humble and humble enough to be smart.
The older I get the more I side with my grandma who trusted doctors as far as she could throw them. I now have a good friend who is a doctor and it’s terrifying how much she just shrugs when I ask her basic questions - which I have researched but want to check what she says as a “doctor”. I’m grateful to have my regular GP who looks me in the eye and tells me she’s not sure but here’s the research she’s seen or she will look into it. ❤
My mother had a miscarriage b/c the doctor didn't care about the safety of her unborn child and gave her antibiotic that harmed the child in the end. She was new to the country and didn't have an advocate. This is an important topic to speak about.
Because it's the truth. I have 2 loved ones that are constantly in and out of the hospital. Both different insurance companies and healthcare providers. And this is so the truth. No one ever knows what's going on. Last week during a hospital trip they had in my MIL charts that she had leukemia and was receiving treatment for it. And we were like uhh... no... that's not right. 5mins later. "Okay! Got that removed!" And my MIL was out of it so if it wasn't for us who knows what she would have been given. Alll the time, regular bases.
Just think what it's like for psychiatrist who have to use things like anticonvulsants or lithium for bipolar disorder. If they're outpatient they can get pregnant at any time so doing a baseline pregnancy test and getting them to promise to use protection and let you know immediately if they suspect they are pregnant doesn't help much.
@@zoeamy290 this is such an unfair statement. If a Pediatrician said they weren't comfortable treating a brain tumor and wanted to send the patient to a Neurologist would you say they "are a nightmare" most likely not. You would understand that a general pediatric doctor does not have in depth training in brain tumors. So why do you think that a psychiatrist or general MD should have in depth training in OB? I mean after all if every doctor was trained in OB then why would we even need ObGyns? Obviously because not only did they receive specialized training but also because they keep up with all the changes as the years go by. I wouldn't let a Neurologist treat my pregnancy just like I wouldn't let an OB treat my brain tumor.
When I worked in labor and delivery, the ER called us for every pregnant female regardless of reason she was there. If there was no doc available, they would even ask us nurses what to do with them. When I worked in ER, I watched the ER docs scramble to get to the phone to call labor and delivery. 😂
This is normal during pregnancy? If anything fluids, anti nausea and a little oxygen would be okay. But I get it. I got hospitalized for hypermesis gavidarium or how ever it’s spelled because I was puking every 2 minutes with nothing at all on my stomach for days straight, I was getting severely dehydrated and nausea meds didn’t even stop it and my pulse was racing. But just puking after you eat during pregnancy is quite normal.
@Sarah Walton - such a case can go on Med-Surg, Telemetry or Progressive Care Unit. No need to be on the OB floor. We will do IV anti-emetics, IV fluids, close monitoring of labs and replacement of electrolytes- among other things.
Omg!!!! I work in a women's hospital and this is soooooo relatable. All of our SOP have a standard protocol, but then there is always a little "***" that says, "unless the patient is pregnant," which is 90% of our patients. Lol Also pregnant women's bodies can do literally the strangest stuff for no reason. We had a mother who completely switched blood types during her pregnancy, like O+ to a B-. It is just insane. This makes me feel so validated.😂😂😂
That's why studies on the pregnant person are so unreliable. Bodies just go wild and it's hard to establish a safe baseline. We know what can keep the fetus healthy. Mothers are basically on their own until there are more peer reviewed studies. And it's hard to get quality studies when few mothers want to possibly end up in the placebo group, or even worse, end up testing a drug that makes things worse for their child.
@lorieakin5771 she did, but she held the blood type for like 3-4 months even after delivery. I mean I've seen weak d mothers finally hit full Rh after be pregnant, but losing her Rh, is a bit more strange as it is literally the whole reason rhogam exists for these Rh neg moms. I know certain subtypes a A can cause a false B. I would be with you on maybe mixing, but because she was typing B - when a fetal rapid screen was preformed, it came back as negative. Blood bank said it was just weird, thankfully mom didn't need blood during or post. Other than the change in blood type, her pregnancy was actually pretty simple. Only other weird thing I can remember is mother was barely 18 when she had baby. Maybe her age could play a factor compared to a more developed age.
Like the ER doc who sent the pregnant lady with a good pressure of 160/90 and a raging headache off to pregnancy assessment unit, at the other end of the hospital, on her own, on foot
I was out of state and my midwife told me to just go to urgent care to have something simple checked on me (I honestly can’t remember what it was). All they kept saying was they didn’t have the equipment to do a sonogram to check the baby. My husband and I ended up walking out because they couldn’t understand that the baby was gone, I just needed their eyes to look me over. I waited until I could drive back home since my midwife understood it was my needs that were a priority, not the baby’s.
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“Ahmmmmm am calling my mom”
Mom: “did you call pharmacy?”
🤣🤣🤣
I did they are lol we give it all the time in the ed
Med students: Should we maybe get more preparation for a common condition that can affect about half of the population at some point in their lives?
Defenders of the status quo, I guess: Nah, that's what mom-experience is for.. If it isn't broken, don't fix it
Meanwhile, every mom's frustration at the lack of pregnancy experience of her doctors: It's broken -_-
Plot twist: his mother is a pharmacist
@@TheUltimateLegend7 My daughter's a hospital pharmacist. I call her.
@@kristend344 you’re literally better off googling it as an OB/GYN I can tell you the last motherfucking person I called is the pharmacist just saying I referred to the books the studies the statistics, because most of my colleagues are average intelligence and most of yawls doctors and pharmacists are average intelligence and average at best skills. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I can throw them fuck no especially in United States buncha dumb motherfuckers made it through medical and pharmacy school in this country and it’s alarming
Yeaaa, I’m laughing, and crying at the same time… because this is so true. Always call the PHARMACY.
A wise nurse instructor always said, “ you don’t need to know everything, But you Need to know Where to find out What you don’t know”
This is why I tell my child that she needs to learn how to Google. She can find everything there. I googled how to clean Velcro like 2 days ago. Also, google can tell you who or where to ask, at the very least
Wise Nurse is very wise. Know you can't know everything. Just admit it to yourself. Then find the answers by asking or reading. Nurses will know how to help you. 👩🏽⚕️🛌🧑🏻⚕️👨🏼⚕️❤
100% and I suck at it
Honestly as a med student I forgot you can ask other professionals for help. They always act like we need to know everything or the patient will die...
Exactly
As someone who was pregnant just over a year ago, I REALLY felt that!
Trying to get any medical treatment that wasn't specifically for the fetus/baby was as productive as hitting my head against a brick wall.
"as productive as hitting my head against a brick wall"
The doctors: BUT IS THAT GOOD FOR THE BABY? Lemme call my mom.
Doctors are very cautious about hurting a developing baby in the first trimester of pregnancy, but if you neglect to treat a pregnant woman who's having health problem(s), then you are hurting the baby!!!!! The developing fetus is totally dependent on it's biological mother, so she needs to be as healthy as possible for her growing baby in utero. If the mother has untreated pneumonia due to an infection, then the developing baby may be seriously affected by the mother's pneumonia as well. There are antibiotics which are safer to use during pregnancy, along with tylenol and oxygen during the first trimester. Then give her a safe prenatal vitamin/mineral supplement to take home after she gets better.
It’s like they don’t even value moms
Yup! In America once you are pregnant you cease to exist and your rights do too. You no longer can have ANY medical treatment unless for the baby. You no longer have any control over your body and even strangers from Walmart will come up and touch your stomach without asking. On a regular basis! You also are no longer considered to have a brain and will be infantilized as an incapable idiot and not allowed to make decisions for yourself. America is a dumpster fire!
And then they send them to the OB floor where they are not trained for med/surg issues, which causes a delay in proper care and poor outcomes. There needs to be better training in all aspects of medicine.
It’s amazing how those meds orders get handled & filled by actual people who know all sorts of things about them & have resources at their fingertips to learn more… They’ve got this exotic name… Pharmacists! Yeah!
Yeah I was going to say that. If you prescribe something to a hospital patient and the pharmacy doesn’t like it, you’ll know. And they won’t fill it. They’re also super careful. I struggled to handle pills in my 1st tri and when I was hospitalized, I asked if I could take my gummy ones and had the bottle so they could look at it. They wouldn’t allow it. Why? I don’t know, but I trusted their word over my own.
Me, a pharmacy student: “CALL THE PHARMACY!!!”
We can answer those questions for you!
Wait, really?
@@Maebb. yeah what do you think they learn for a bunch of years lol
@@Maebb. yeah of course. Pharmacy school is comparable in difficulty to medical school. They are a vital part of the healthcare team. They’re not just “fancy cashiers” in the slightest.
@@Maebb. yup. Medications are the focus of their job, after all, so why wouldn't they know about them?
@@Maebb. Yeah, they have to train to know all the drug interactions, what is safe for what people, etc. They'd usually know what's safe for pregnant people.
"I'm calling my mom"
Is the most accurate statement when you don't know what to do.
I called my mom today because I didn’t have onions for a recipe and I wasn’t sure what I should do 😂
@@athenarocks7657 what did you use?
@@theapocalypticfish She just told me to taste it and if I liked the flavor to not add anything
@@athenarocks7657 i recommend always keeping onion powder. Doesnt go bad so it last way longer than fresh onins and works in a pinch when im out of the real ones
Yep, always the right answer! Especially if the hospital doesn't know what do as my mum happens to be a dr aha 🤩
Pharmacist are amazing. They discovered a medication contraindication that had been routine for this patient for years. After the fix the patient was more alert and healthier.
This also taught me and the nurses there that we should question all medications until we audit them ourselves.
The best doctor I ever had was a general practitioner. He was so good he had many doctors for patients.
Instead of reading that last sentence as he had many patients who were drs, I first read it as you being sarcastic saying he had to have a team of drs to help him take care of his patients because he was “so good” 😂 I was scratching my head there for a minute. I guess my brain stopped readingcomprehension.exe for a few seconds. 🤷♀️
"They started asking a lot of questions I didn't understand so I just hung up"
Me w/ neurosurgery 😂💀
😎👏🤣
My aunt saw a neurologist not too long ago for possible symptoms to MS. Her eye Dr suggested it for to her list of issues and vision problems. Every 5 minutes he'd stop talking to ask if my aunt understood anything he said and she'd tell him no. He would explain again and it still went over her head. All she understood was she should fire her eye Dr but the results were inconclusive. She essentially left more confused than when she got there.
Me with a bucket of blood and fifteen kidneys.
😂😂😂
i had brain surgery. my aunt is an oncologist and happened to be in town at the time. she visits, asks questions i don't know. i call the nurse. my aunt speaks Doc, and the nurse is like, "i'll get the doctor". my aunt talks to the doctor, and he looks like he's trying to divide by zero. Finally they got my neurosurgeon's office on the line, he explained to the doc in some other doc-language what it is my aunt wanted to know and what to show her (my CT scan).... (all knowing that i had signed a permission/release for them to talk to my aunt)... she saw what she needed to see, dismissed them and looked at me lovingly and said "you're gonna be ok. everything is ok". i was just happy that she was happy with the result of everything. i had the impression she would have gone all Terms of Endearment on someone if they didn't do a perfect job
I recently had a yeast infection while pregnant and I panicked because I didnt know what I could take. I work at a Walgreens and am really good friends with one of my pharmacists so I asked him. That man gave me an incredibly clear answer in less than a second. God bless you Dwayne, you are a saint because I was having a full blown panic attack.
Was it "Yes, you can use Monistat"?
@roetemeteor Yea, basically. But he told me specifically only monistat 7 because using 1 or 3 can be too harsh and harm the baby
Opposite experience.. I was having extremely terrible constipation first trimester..my mom went to the pharmacy to ask what's safe over the counter during pregnancy..he told my mom..... Then as she's walking away he said OH I FORGOT YOU SAID SHE WAS PREGNANT... DEF NOT SAFE. Thank god he remember before she waked away
I got my first yeast infection when I was pregnant!! Omfg 😶 but my midwives had to go all natural and stuff
Just so you know and dont oanic yeast infections can be a sign of genstational diabetes so get your bloods tested for your diabetes markers.
I was almost full term when I developed bad allergies. The typical itchiness, runny nose, couldn’t breathe, etc. but it was just felt worse maybe because I was pregnant…My Doc prescribed me an allergy need. Went to the pharmacy where they lmk the me was NOT safe in pregnancy 😮😮😮. I was so very thankful for them speaking up.
I have severe Crohn's and have had 4 live births (and 5 miscarriages). I feel this video to my very soul.
@tiffanythomas7183 I have a hypermobility disorder that causes horrible IBS, I can't fathom navigating chrons and pregnancy. I'm sorry your religion imposes that upon you.
@NeighborhoodOfBlue I am sorry you believe everything is religious and that non-religous people like having kids. I guess my friend with 18 live births will make you shake and shiver.
my mom is a maternity nurse, it's not a joke when they say that it's the only section of the hospital that understands women's medicine.
We are so behind in womens health, its insulting.
Is maternity part of the OB/GYN section?
@@vOtEbIdEnTosAvEdEmOcRaCy yes childbirth medicine is the Obstetrics in Obstetrics and Gynecology (that's what Ob/Gyn stands for).
give him all the p she had
but at just one day...
@@vOtEbIdEnTosAvEdEmOcRaCyis this sarcasm?
Just to be a Debbie Downer, pregnant people die for this very reason. I spoke to a woman who had a stroke during pregnancy and she was simply sent to OB where they monitored the fetus ONLY and said "baby looks good, you can go home!" Instead, her husband took her to a better hospital where she was actually treated for the stroke.
THANK YOU OMFG. I was just thinking about how many women ate receiving medical neglect because doctors just don't listen and move on.
Not Debbie downing! Spreading awareness bby!!
@@SJD326 are you saying that women aren't people?
@@heidi3963 saying pregnant people instead of pregnant women insinuates that men can get pregnant. That is scientifically incorrect. Transexual men are still women
@@heidi3963you know why she said that
All of this is SO TRUE!!! I was sick incessantly during both pregnancies, and the GPs never prescribed things that my OB was comfortable with in any way so she started seeing me for cold and flu🤦♀️
My insurance company made the ObGyn primary during the pregnancy. I called her when I was running a temperature from wisdom tooth infections.
The general rule is if a patient is pregnant, whatever the complaint is even if it’s just punctured wound, animal bite, cold, electrocution, trauma, whatever else you can think of, the OBGyne is the one who should see the patient. If the case is too complex for the OB then the OB can ask for help or refer the patient to another specialist. But yes OBGyne checks pregnant patients even if it’s just a cold or flu.
I’m in the healthcare industry and this is scary how accurate is!!!
“Are you sure that’s right?” “No.” At least he’s honest.
Lol yeah that's what I was thinking
Right most doctors refuse to admit that the don't know everything! Doctors could do so much better if they actually listened to the person living inside if the body they are attempting to treat instead of glancing at them once or twice while briefly reviewing a generic chart and while spending the least amount of time with them professionally possible. Then scribbling a bs script "mmm, mmmhmm, yeaah, k. Try this for 30 days." 30 days later still have same issues plus this other thing has been giving me trouble. "Ahhh. Ok here's a script for that. come back in a month" next visit same original issue but now really nauseous all the time. " I see. Take these as needed" and let's try sumn new for problem." See me in 30 days.. no wash. No rinse. Just stack scripts, waste years of your 20s, suffer from side effects, get fat, can't sleep, fall into depression and all you needed was a good probiotic/prebiotic gummie vitamin.
Every time anyone was ever wrong with me my primary would say, you're pregnant you need to contact your OB 🤦♀️🤦♀️ even for things she should handle regardless.
If you're not honest, people die. That's healthcare.
@@StefanieB22 "Ma'am my uterus is fine. You're my primary." Genuinely can't imagine going for something completely unrelated to my pregnancy and being sent to the "pregnancy dr". I get that other things could relate, but not *all* things 😭🤣
Obgyn- I’m dying. This is 100% accurate and not even an exaggeration. Always just consult OB. Bonus points if you know how many weeks she is. You lose doctoring points if you tell me her gestational age in months though.
do you not understand months?
@@mellissamercado7904 it is always better to tell gestational age in weeks as we measure it as such per abdominally
@@mellissamercado7904 my baby is 157 months old
@@mellissamercado7904 saying 4 months is a lot less accurate then saying something like 18 weeks (4 and a half months). It’s just a way to standardize information to be as informative as possible while also easy to understand. 4.25 months is less clear then 17 weeks.
@@mellissamercado7904a baby is going to look a lot more different at 16 weeks than they are at 19 weeks, even though they are technically still “4 months”…
Things change a lot week-to-week, so for measuring baby’s progress and making sure milestones are met during the pregnancy, weeks is a lot more accurate… You start measuring age in months after baby is born, up until they turn 2, usually.
I remember being pregnant and no one caring about my pain or illness. I wanted a healthy baby as well but I’m also a person that deserves some consideration. Especially because if I were to go, the baby would too. I’m so glad I finally convinced a doctor to tie my tubes. It took three living babies and two stillbirths. Even then I had to fight for it.
I was hospitalized with Covid at 9 months pregnant during the pandemic and have to give a huge props to the head of the infectious disease unit. He calmed me down and answered my millions of questions about convalescent plasma (it was experimental and hadn’t been tested on pregnant women) and personally visited me through my entire stay. I think it just depends on who the doctor is.
"Alr so what seems to be the problem"
"I have high blood pressure"
"Hmm... Lemme ask my mom about that"
This is literally how it feels when you have to be treated for anything while pregnant and then they act like you're the stupid one
So true!
It's even worse when you have to be treated for anything gynecological related. At least in my area, almost all of the OBGYNs seem to have slept through the GYN part of their training. While the waiting room is filled with pregnant ladies. I did finally find some that are a bit more experienced. But that was after seeing 4 OBGYNs in just a couple months.
Shit I'm 21weeks 4days with my 4th little boy, have chronic health issues on top of chrons they aren't treating because of the pregnancy and I go through days of non stop vomiting pooping mucus and blood etc go to the er they send me home saying it's morning sickness.
my mom’s a pharmacist and EVERYONE we know comes to her for medicine questions. they go to school for all those years for a reason, just call the pharmacy 😭
Ayyyy! My mom’s a pharmacist, too! 😊 *highfives*
For real, the difficulty of pharmacy and medical school (at least here in Germany) is almost the same, but still everyone acts like doctors know everything, and pharmacists are just cashiers, even though medication is literally THEIR LIFE
Omg sameee✋
As a pharmacist I can confirm this
Doctors specialise in disease (prevention and treatment) while pharmacists specialise in the medication
I twisted my ankle during pregnancy and the ER staff was A+ equipped to deal with it all. 💪🏻
Accurate! I had an ear infection during my pregnancy. A really bad one 😢 and I went to urgent care for it. The Urgent care doctor took FOREVER trying to find an ear drop that she could technically prescribe me and it ended up being an out of network drop that would cost wayyyyyy too much. When I called them to tell them this they said they couldn’t prescribe me anything else because it “wasn’t safe” and that I should ask my midwife to prescribe me something different. So I ended up having my midwife prescribe me an ear drop for my ear infection. Generalists are really scared of prescribing anything that could potentially harm a baby in the womb.
Me shouting at my screen: “CALL THE PHARMACIST”. Seriously, this is bread&butter type stuff for us, especially in hospital.
:-) Absolutely! BUT, such incompetence in an EM doctor is concerning. Checking Google or checking with a pharmacist is better than giving poor or dangerous care, but these are fairly straightforward.
Exactly. I never knew but most family doctors don't know what medicines interact negatively with eachother. Thats what the pharmacist is for. They look over your meds and make sure they all work together
Amen amen, this is what we are trained for.
@@mcsquibble3550 You know my comment is a joke, right?
As a nurse, I really love pharmacists. Every pharmacist that I have ever worked with always seems so happy to answer my questions and are so nice and helpful. I think pharmacists are the most approachable people in medicine. Thank you guys.
As an OB/GYN myself, I can absolutely say that this is what happens. Pregnancy makes everyone nervous.
I was afraid to examine her.... what if she explodes?!?
Lol. Is a low blood pressure associated with pregnancy?
Literally I went in for an intense cough that was leaving me gagging and nauseous after every cough attack and when I went in they did a chest X-ray, determined it wasn't pneumonia, and then couldn't do anything else for me and suggested I just drink tea 🙃🙃🙃 when I called the nurse helpline where I was recommended to the hospital, she only listened to the part where I said I was nauseous and dizzy, not the cough, and told me to go in for a fluid IV 😑😑😑😑 I got the fluid IV after my husband making me ask for it and I was only on it for 30 minutes until my discharge papers came in. I was there for 6 hours and starving and asked for a snack which I was originally told would be brought to me, waited an hour and eventually went home without a snack and got my own food 🤪 I hated that visit so much
@@jeniferjohnson374No, but a slightly raised (not high) blood pressure can be normal. A woman’s body can have as much as 1.5x normal blood volume during pregnancy. For some women it raises a little bit :)
@@lexinicole4317 Sorry but this is misleading, while the blood volume in pregnancy does increase, the hormones produced in pregnancy relax muscles and ligaments, including those within blood vessels - which causes them to widen, causing blood pressure to actually decrease a little bit in pregnancy in general. Rising blood pressure in pregnancy is something that needs to be monitored to ascertain that it is not developing into something like pre-eclampsia.
Honestly, it was the ER doc and not the OB that figured out I had postpartum HELLP syndrome. All of the folks in the maternity ward thought my symptoms were normal post-delivery hardships. Nope, my liver was trying to shut down. Thank God for a fresh set of eyes and thinking.
ER staff will call pharmacy with questions. The pharmacist is always your best resource.
“She got a chest x ray and she is pregnant”??? What would mom say?!
Carefully done X-rays are apparently somewhat ok as long as they are minimized and the uterus is shielded as much as possible
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Lmfao.... I didn't put all of it together thank you for the good laugh
@@missingallmymarbles7670 yeah I'm was very sick at some point that I had to do a lot of chest x-rays and I was in biochem grade (well it was 10-11 years and we studied biology and chemistry a lot, I don't know how it's called in English), and I asked doctor about the radiation, and they said that one chest x-ray can get you as much radiation as sunny day, so it's not really harmful, but yes, If you have a baby they often do a CT scan in my country or they protect the uterus with a lead sheet of some kind
I was thinking the same thing😂
Google: ask your doctor
Doctor: ask your google
Sad truth
Age of information…
I know, right? I've seen my doctor reading the same websites I read, but less thoroughly. Wack.
Ended up going to the ER at about 7mons pregnant with severe stomach/back pain. They were going to send me home and put it on just growing pains. It was my 3rd and knew something was right so when i questioned it they offered to atleast do an ultrasound to make sure the baby was fine. The ultrasound tech ended up spotting a large kidney stone that needed to get surgically removed. It took them a bit to figure out how to even do the surgery since usually patients are put to sleep
This is terrifying. ALWAYS get in touch with the pharmacy when having medication questions.
I was so thankful my grandma who was a labor and delivery nurse was with me during the time I was in labor! The nurse was to scared to alert doctors of my heart rate and baby’s oxygen scans. My grandma stepped in and the dr actually kicked his nurse off assisting and had my grandma assist. She saved my life I legit slipped into a comps after birth and she knew what to do to save me! As weird as it wa having my grandma check my dialstion and see everything I’m so happy she was their to save not only me but my baby’s life!
That's a great story. Cant do that kinda stuff these days. Someone would get offended.
I bet your grandma was so happy to be there too.
Your gran was a superhero
Wonderful
@@metamorphicorderIf they're a licensed nurse and it's an emergency I'm pretty sure you can still do that and no one will be offended...
Except you, apparently.
As a patient I can tell you this is so true. An X-ray tech nearly fell over when she asked me if I was pregnant and I said yes. She asked if I told the dr and when I said yes she left to go make sure that the dr really did know. She was so shocked when she came back and said that I was telling the truth and the dr was aware. Meanwhile I’m sitting there with pneumonia wondering how nervous I should be since everyone around me seems so nervous. When I phoned to tell my OB the diagnosis and told her about the X-ray she laughed and said that it was definitely ok that I had the X-ray. Untreated pneumonia would have be much worse than the X-Ray. She said everyone is always so afraid to do anything to a pregnant patient.
Sad
They're scared because over exposure to radiation, like x-ray, can cause birth defects. But having it once during pregnancy doesn't really hurt anyone. Everyone just wanted to be careful.
@@hanacastle22 Don’t get me wrong, I appreciated that they were being careful. Truly! But the look of absolute shock and horror on the X-ray tech’s face when I said I was pregnant definitely made me go from wondering if I should be worried to wondering if I should be freaking out. I was very thankful that my OB was able to calmly explain, just like you did, that one X-ray wasn’t going to cause harm.
And one would think to say hey, with all the millions of babies in the world, maybe it's time we learn a thing or 2 about pregnant women.
I know people lie about things to hospital staff, which is stupid, but that's another story. But for the tech, say, you were telling the truth? Uh, yeah. I know.
I started working in medical at 16 and did for 17 years. I did a lot of med reviews for my residents/patients, a ridiculously high amount of med reviews. My doctor now has no idea how to treat me, neither do the specialists and the ER has almost killed me multiple times. It has gotten to the point that my doctor just asks me what meds I want or need or would like to try and he just goes with it. My reactions to even normal medications is insanely random and Ive been to dozens of specialists. Now if we end up in the ER, my husband either has to be with me or they call my doctor in if Im not conscious so they can monitor what i am given. This video is ridiculously accurate about my medical care.
As someone who has worked in pharmacy for over 8 years, this is the reason why there is a whole team on a patient's case. No one expects the doctor to know everything, so why do doctors think they have to?
Ugh, sadly accurate. I was on psych meds when I became pregnant. Although it wasnt planned, my husband & I wanted kids eventually and were happy. I asked my psychiatrist the safest way to get off my meds. He was annoyed and said "I don't deal with pregnant women" and he never saw me again- nor did he send a referral. When I asked my ob-gyn, he also got annoyed and said "I don't know, I'm not a psychiatrist! I guess stop taking these meds." So I did- cold turkey, with no medical guidance.
Everything turned out OK in the end- but now that I'm older I realize how dangerous this could've turned out. At the time, we had medicaid, so I really didn't have the option to switch.
It sucks how different I'm treated by medical professionals now that I have a grad degree and a job with private insurance. They treated me like I was a nuisance. That was a decade ago and it still makes me angry.
As it should- that was negligence on their part! I’m so sorry that happened to you. And you’re right- you do get treated different with private insurance and a high degree.
As a mom who is adopted medically, needy children, and had Medicaid for them. I know this is true.
I’d go ballistic if I went without my psych meds. That’s why I won’t be having children.
I was not trying either after seven miscarriages and his stillbirth I was kind of done and surprise my fourth kiddo and my only daughter came along I had to rapid wean off of my meds and luckily my psychiatrist and my psychiatrist and my OB actually work together It was The first and last time it ever happened to me I don't know why doctors resist talking to each other but boy do they. And this is about how much information in ER doctor or general family doctor is really going to know.. azithromycin is fine and pregnancy although most of them just do amoxicillin to be safe and the fluids are fine. Lol forget asking anybody else you should just ask someone who's had a baby probably not your mom because that was a while ago doc
At least theyre talking about it, they just ignored my pneumonia for three months. It wasnt until i started sobbing inbetween coughing that they finally at least listened to my lungs instead of telling me i had allergies and sending me on my way with cough syrup. They actually asked me "how do you jnow youre having fever and chills?"
Criminal negligence!
How do you know?!? Oh my... I'm so sorry 😞
That’s really dangerous, pneumonia can easily turn into sepsis, happened to me!
Basically the type of situation I was referring to in my comment.. and damn I got attacked. 😳
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I went to the urgent care for an issue while pregnant. They prescribed a medication and turns out, it was NOT safe at all while pregnant. Despite them saying it definitely was safe. Glad my pharmacy keeps track of pregnancy and such.
I really liked my dads doc because my dad needs a mix of meds everyday and this dude whenever my dad needed something extra for other reasons he would take out a book to look if it's safe for him. He looked like a mad scientist, but was super effective.
My wife is an OB/Gyn resident and says this is incredibly accurate. So many consults are "She's bleeding down there?!" "Yeah, she's on her period." or
"There's nothing we can do about her nausea cuz she's pregnant, right?" "No, we can still give her medicine."
I love how they're getting stressed by what drugs they can and can't give her, but she's already had a chest X-ray
Thought that was strange... 😂
The fact that she got x rays during the first trimester when the baby is the most radiosensitive 😭😭😭
...you can still do xray when you're pregnant, they just put a double vest over you and do it as quickly as possible. i had to have two when i was pregnant because i fell and hurt myself a couple of times
That was my first thought too!
@@karamarie6578 I know you can use a lead vest, I’m a rad tech myself, but it’s not always possible due to the area of interest in some cases. I’ve only x rayed 2 pregnant people in my career since they really needed that x ray and I still feel guilty about it even though I shielded. X rays should only be done when the mother’s life is at risk, like in those two cases.
In this case, trying to shield the belly bump would not show the costophrenic angles of the lungs in the x ray, covering anatomy of interest and possible pathological findings.
Hope this helped! 🩵
Never have I felt so terrified than thinking about a Dr googling medication safety 😂
"Are you sure that's right?" "No" 💀
"Hey mom, it's your doctor-son. I have a medical question for you."
In my hospital, OB is an extension of the ER. Someone from OB would'va come down and taken lead as soon as you mentioned you had a pregnant pt.
That’s how it is in large hospitals. However, unfortunately in small rural hospitals this isn’t always the case. Three of the hospitals in my area don’t even have an OB ward. However the local LVL 1&2 trauma do!
Periodt
Yea
At my hospital you stay in the ER with regular drs unless you're over 16 weeks. With my daughter I had a threatened miscarriage at 14 or 15 weeks and I was kept in the ER. Any problems I have ever had while pregnant I was just told they couldn't do anything bc itd probably kill the baby (after talking to an ob I find out that no in fact it would not), and I was sent home. It starts early too. With my daughter I was really sick before I got my positive but was late on my period. I couldn't breath well and my heartrate was in the 160's and they refused me treatment.
I am an L&D RN at a big hospital. ER can't get pregnant women to us fast enough!
These are the doctors I tell to step aside and let a nurse handle it.
This is so true as an old labor and delivery nurse, they didnt want to touch our patients. And if it was an emergency i would coach the ER doc on what to do.
As a recently pregnant woman I can assure you we know you're panicking and it comes off less like "I don't know" and a lot more like "I'm cool for you to be in a lot of pain because only the baby matters."
Yep. Infuriating. Women get written off so quickly because we can't possibly know our own bodies well enough to tell the difference between something that's actually wrong and being pregnant, having gas, constipation, or just being on our periods. But then when we ARE pregnant, forget it... we're not even people, anymore; just a disposable vessel.
Yeah I wish doctors would say what they mean. What do we do to them that makes them that way? It’s not complex to say, “hold on, I have to triple check because I don’t usually treat pregnant women.”
Lawsuits
The fact that they'd rather let you suffer than admit that there's something they don't know is horrible.
A mother will suffer. A fetus will die. That's why doctors err on the side of the baby. But they can't say it out loud or else they'll get sued.
My wife had a panic attack of epic proportions when she was pregnant and we had to take her to the emergency room. The doctors refused to give her anything. Our obgyn was so angry when he found out.
Pretty sure "stress" (I'd imagine it'd be catigorized as such) is like.. pretty damn bad for the baby. They could have asked the pharmacy what's okay to prescribe.
on one hand i can empathize but on the other i dont really blame the doctors. Damn near every medication on earth seems to have a blurb saying to eitehr not give it to children or pregnant women, or that it has an unknown effect on children and pregnant women, which is the drug companies way of say "if you give this to a pregnant woman and her skeleton falls out then that's on you Mister Doctor". That sort of stuff makes you crazy paranoid since if 99% of meds say stuff like that even if you find something that's listed for use with women infected with a human parasite it makes you wonder if it's really safe or if it's another Thalidomide.
This is why I love family medicine doctors. You can go see them for everything and they’re actually really knowledgeable about women’s health and pregnancy.
This is sooo accurate with doctors today... Why I love old school doctors or one who keep up with medical journals they are rare if you find 1 keep them!!!
Omg. I’m a midwife and I swear this is literally what doctors are like if a pregnant woman comes in. They have no idea what to do with them. So they try to send them to Ob when their problem isn’t pregnancy related 🤣😭
Lmaoo well at least OB knows what to give and what not to give a pregnant woman.
Actually they do know what to do they just don't want to deal with it. Especially when it comes to drug classification for preg women.
im convinced all medical professionals need distinct training in the field of medical help during pregnancy, bc at this point its just a bunch of people running around confused
And they spend all that money and time and years and years and years of their lives and get all this money but can't figure these things out?... I could just google it and probably find out faster ...
I noticed this with doctors when it came to medicines the research I did on them was more thorough than any knowledge they had .. they just kinda go through the motions and don't actually care ..no offense to any doctors or nurses or anything but ..
@@nonamesinenomine I can see that you are having dunning kruger effect right now the moment you mentioned google
As an OB/Gyn, I relate. Pregnant women scare everyone who isn't an OB. NO, she should NOT be admitted to OB since she's in first trimester and has pneumonia! Pregnant women are not incubators... Please treat the Mom! But, YES, call OB for consult and please know the gestational age! Those antibiotics both safe in pregnancy, as is Tylenol. And, IV fluids! (That seems obvious!)
Out here doing the Lord's work! (No offense if you are not religious and such! ❤)
PLEASE 👏🏾 TREAT 👏🏾 THE 👏🏾 MOM 👏🏾
Weelll I saw a bunch of ads saying tylenol taken during pregnancy can cause autism.
I knew how to treat the woman and I'm not a doctor lol... I've just had six babies 😂
There's currently a class action lawsuit in litigation for Tylenol causing all sorts of birth defects.
Me, a mom and a nurse, "Did you call the pharmacy?" lol
When I was pregnant with my second baby I got bit by ants. I am allergic. The doctor's were worried about treating me with anything. This video is very accurate.
I swear no one wants to do anything to treat the mom when she's pregnant. I usually felt like a vector for my daughter and not an actual person with they way I was treated.. I know they want to make sure baby is OK, but don't forget mom is a full human with feelings and symtoms that deserve to be treated as well.
I really believe it has waaaay more to do with liabilities. They use caring about your baby as a front excuse because they expect it to get the emotional understanding/agreement they’re looking for so they can punt you off.
What symptoms are you referring to?
Yea you ARE the vessel for your child. And you SHOULD feel like it. And you should feel HONOURED to do it. You should also ALWAYS be MORE focused on your child than your own selfish wants. Otherwise don't have kids. I have two forms of a pain condition so bad they're named SUICIDE diseases. I went through LITERAL HELL. That's not because the dr's just don't care. It's because of tragedies like the thalidomide children, we have one in my family so are MORE than aware of the destruction caused by drugs in pregnancy. You clearly don't have a CLUE how fragile your baby is to outside influences and the damage caused. Would like to live with knowing that your child is only physically and mentally disabled because YOU refused to wait a few months for drugs. They're not just being assholes and neglecting you. 🤦♀️🤷♀️ It seems like they cared more about YOUR unborn baby and their safety, welfare and their future health than YOU. Never seen a GOOD mother complaining about not getting drugs in pregnancy. I know women that had serious car crashes and broke bones and never even touched a paracetamol. One woman had to have a surgery and didn't take a single thing. And if you're demanding mood drugs and antidepressants then you're even WORSE. They DESTROY the growing brain and GUARANTEE the kid ends up with serious mental health issues and also GUARANTEE that they'll end up addict's unable to function in society. It causes them to be extremely violent and constantly full of rage. They also DRASTICALLY lower IQ which only adds to the already inevitable terrible life choices. If you're a single mother as well you may as well just sign them into prison at 16. 😂 The selfish choices you make in pregnancy can kill your baby and destroy their body and mind which OBVIOUSLY destroys their chances of EVER having a normal happy life. The ONLY thing that matters when you're pregnant IS YOUR BABY'S LIFE, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS! Yes that means you're SECONDARY for 9mths. If you can't even cope with that then you're a terrible selfish person who frankly doesn't have what it takes to be a parent and I pity the child. And society that has to act to fix your selfish choices. Again if you can't put yourself aside for such a small amount of time you've got some serious issues and you are probably a narcissist. But hey most of you kids are today. 🤦♀️🤷♀️ if you are then the VERY LEAST you can do is NOT inflict it on children who will then inflict it on society and our children.
@@cececox6399 Part of it depends on what part of gestation that ‘whatever’ problem happens to the mother in.
If the mother dies, the baby will too. If somehow, the baby survives… who is going to care for it? Keeping in mind that there may not be other relatives, for whatever reason? And, I know that it can be put up for adoption, after likely time in foster care, which can be less than great
@@cececox6399 okay dear.
Thats why pharamists can be so important in determining the most effective and safe medications for a patient.
That is DEFINITELY how I felt as a pregnant patient in severe pain.
This explains so much... i had severe kidney infection and found out in the ER i was preggo. I ended up admitted for 2 months and doctor was freaking out because i was getting septic. They told me my only hope was a "drug of last resort" because it could cause birth defects 😢 it was a terrible choice. But i was literally going to die without it and if i died, my baby died too. I took the drug, but STILL wasnt improving 😱
Finally one morning i just woke up (after being unconcious for a few days) and i was better! Just like that! And my baby was born healthy 😀
Praise the Lord for that miracle. Glad y’all are still with us!
A miracle! So glad!
@@bygraceonly182Praise science and doctors.
Science had a lot to do with it, not some vague sky fairy.
@@Olivia-Wyou need to stop. Just because you don’t faith is higher being doesn’t mean you get to tell other people what to believe.
When you said call Obi, my car actually called my ob
I was most amazed by a prominent ER doc I was dealing with who was proud of the fact that he did not consult the PDR (physicians desk reference). And then I found out how common that attitude was. Another physician had me on a year of an anti fugal medication, only to find I was on a years prescription, but at one tenth the required dose. He just did not bother to check the requirements in the PDR. But a later physician would not prescribe an anti fungal at all, on the presumption that I would just get infected again in the future. Of course, he still expected to get paid for his none service. I don’t know who who’s worst, neither being any good. It’s a pretty good gig when you don’t have to put any time or thought into your treatments, but just rely on reflex and what is easiest for you, the clinician.
During my clinical days as an LPN nursing student, anytime I couldn't remember specifics of a medication, I would always look it up if I had time. If I didn't, I would ask my nursing instructor since they had to be with us when we handled any medication.
Two of the main things anyone in healthcare should know and remember is: No one knows everything (I've seen seasoned nurses like 20+ years of experience have to look things up) and if you don't know, ask because that one question could save that patients life.
Yes! I loved hearing Dr Mike admit they have to look things up all the time. I'd *MUCH* rather a doctor admit to themselves they don't have all of the information in the world than attempt to treat me based on limited information.
As a woman, it's kinda appalling honestly. Pregnancy is not some weird rare disease, it's a common human health condition. The fact that general medicine doesn't know how to address fever in a pregnant woman is honestly horrifying (but not far from the experiences of many pregnant women I know).
Agreed
It’s more that pharmaceutical companies don’t test on pregnant women for obvious reasons and prefer to label their meds not feasible for pregnant or breastfeeding women because they don’t want to be sued.
Yes
Women's healthcare in general is shittier
Agreed. It’s mostly because almost no pregnant women wants to enter into a clinic trial, so there’s very little research on the effects of medications on pregnancies
Honestly, I suspect that calling your Mom is probably the best idea. I mean, mine managed to get all six of us to adulthood.
I had to go to an urgent care during my second trimester and thankfully the lady who treated me knew exactly what to do as she's worked in and ob office and had children herself
“I tried calling [OB] but they started asking me a lot of questions I didn’t understand so I just hung up. Something about gestation??” Nearly just spit out my drink at that one. 😆 😆
Coming from a family of pharmacists, this is too relatable. Especially that "I'm calling my mom" bit 😆
During pregnancy: "I don't know if you can have Tylenol."
After pregnancy: "have all the fentanyl you want!"
“Are you sure that’s right?” I even said no with you😂
"They started asking a lot of questions I didn't understand so I just hung up-"
I- 🤚😭🤣🤣
Oh did I laugh!!!
"something about.. gEsTatiOn???"
THAT was HILARIOUS!
😂 😝 😆 I’m dying over here.
Me while studying development in pediatrics: “ moooooom when do kids stack 3 cubes?” “ moooom when can babies sit by themselves??”
Me as a mom, it depends. Usually when they decide you can know they can do it or you accidentally catch them doing it.
Omgg this is so true, I'm a last year med student, and I'm currently rotating in pediatrics, and omg that's so much information and you have to examine all those abilities in a child, otherwise you might not catch a development disorder 😑
@@karlacalvillo3092 As a parent, i always just lie on those questionnaires. You all overpathologize a lot of stuff lol.
IRL Example>>
Doc: OMG your 4yo can't cut out things with scissors?!
Me: Uh, no. Because if I let him have them, he'll be trying to cut his sister's hair the moment I turn away to check on his other sister, so I don't let him have them in the first place.
Doc: Oh, well your child has a developmental disability.
Me: you obviously have a developmental disability. Not sure you should be without a wrangler at all times. Can you point me to your adult?
What age do babies generally start to walk? My mama said I did at 7 months with a picture to prove it, I'm still doubting lol
I was actually almost shocked when the hospital actually gave one of our OB patients painkillers after a car accident fractured her collarbone. Baby was perfectly fine
I find this very relatable.
I am 9 months pregnant.
I actually found that even my obgyn did not handle my “special needs” correctly. I had gastric sleeve surgery done. Because of this I do not absorb some essential vitamins and minerals correctly. Going into second trimester, my B-12 levels were 4.2. That is astronomically low. It is needed for iron utilization in the body. I kept telling them im tired all the time, I can’t do anything. Im practically bed bound. They didn’t quite know what to do about my nutrient levels and just kept telling me “you are only a LITTLE anemic”. Turned out to actually be a big problem and didn’t get the correct intervention until I insisted and went to a hematologist. In my third trimester…our baby is healthy, but sometimes even the doctors who should know, don’t know.
As an aside note: I myself am a board certified medical professional. Not a GP or OBGYN however.
This literally happened to me 2 weeks ago. I was 22 weeks pregnant, had pneumonia and it caused me to have an asthma attack. Ended up in ICU, intubated and they put me to sleep for 4 days. I was in hospital for 2 days before i had the attack, they just didn't know what to do with me until I had the asthma attack 💁🏾♀️
Geeze! I hope you and baby are okay. That sounds terrifying.
@kimt4087 baby and I are fine now. Just gave birth a week ago to a healthy baby, that's all I could ask for 😊
This guy is going to be someone that patients will want to see and who will take good care of them. He's not afraid to tell it like it is even in an exaggerated or humorous way and that's always a sign of a person who is smart enough to be humble and humble enough to be smart.
The older I get the more I side with my grandma who trusted doctors as far as she could throw them. I now have a good friend who is a doctor and it’s terrifying how much she just shrugs when I ask her basic questions - which I have researched but want to check what she says as a “doctor”. I’m grateful to have my regular GP who looks me in the eye and tells me she’s not sure but here’s the research she’s seen or she will look into it. ❤
I work in an ER & started screaming "CALL PHARMACY!!!!" 😅
This guy is legit. He really knows how hospitals work. He’s got it dead on every time
OMG it’s almost as if he work on one! 😱😱😱😱
Dumbass comment.
No wonder my hospital stay was torture and it took forever to get a meficine i'd agreed to take an hour and a half previously.
Maybe because he works in a hospital? I don't know, just a thought
I have lived this four times. It's crazy how many Dr's freak when they hear you are pregnant, especially if it's a high risk pregnancy.
That fact that he is calling his mom is hilarious 😂😂😂
My mother had a miscarriage b/c the doctor didn't care about the safety of her unborn child and gave her antibiotic that harmed the child in the end. She was new to the country and didn't have an advocate. This is an important topic to speak about.
How are all of these some of the funniest shorts and still feel like a secret?!
Because it's the truth. I have 2 loved ones that are constantly in and out of the hospital. Both different insurance companies and healthcare providers. And this is so the truth. No one ever knows what's going on. Last week during a hospital trip they had in my MIL charts that she had leukemia and was receiving treatment for it. And we were like uhh... no... that's not right. 5mins later. "Okay! Got that removed!" And my MIL was out of it so if it wasn't for us who knows what she would have been given. Alll the time, regular bases.
It is so scary
As a general physician I can relate to this. Pregnant patients are my nightmare. But Azithromycin is generally safe in pregnancy.
Just think what it's like for psychiatrist who have to use things like anticonvulsants or lithium for bipolar disorder. If they're outpatient they can get pregnant at any time so doing a baseline pregnancy test and getting them to promise to use protection and let you know immediately if they suspect they are pregnant doesn't help much.
As a pregnant person, doctors like you are literally my nightmare.
@@zoeamy290 this is such an unfair statement. If a Pediatrician said they weren't comfortable treating a brain tumor and wanted to send the patient to a Neurologist would you say they "are a nightmare" most likely not. You would understand that a general pediatric doctor does not have in depth training in brain tumors. So why do you think that a psychiatrist or general MD should have in depth training in OB? I mean after all if every doctor was trained in OB then why would we even need ObGyns? Obviously because not only did they receive specialized training but also because they keep up with all the changes as the years go by. I wouldn't let a Neurologist treat my pregnancy just like I wouldn't let an OB treat my brain tumor.
@@MParentWetmore very accurate.
Good to know.
When I worked in labor and delivery, the ER called us for every pregnant female regardless of reason she was there. If there was no doc available, they would even ask us nurses what to do with them. When I worked in ER, I watched the ER docs scramble to get to the phone to call labor and delivery. 😂
“I’m calling my mom” well it’s good to know doctors do it too
Wow! And this is why I always love having a Doctor who was a nurse because they can handle situations like this. ❤
That's the BEST kind of Dr ❤
Oh. So this is why I wasn't admitted to the preggo ward when I came in puking out absolutely everything that hit my stomach.
Usually a couple liters of IV fluids and some anti-nausea drugs do the trick, no need to admit unless there are other issues.
@Michael B bro I thought I was having a stroke when I looked at your comment.
This is normal during pregnancy? If anything fluids, anti nausea and a little oxygen would be okay. But I get it. I got hospitalized for hypermesis gavidarium or how ever it’s spelled because I was puking every 2 minutes with nothing at all on my stomach for days straight, I was getting severely dehydrated and nausea meds didn’t even stop it and my pulse was racing. But just puking after you eat during pregnancy is quite normal.
@Michael B if all that is true, then why is death rates in POC so high?
@Sarah Walton - such a case can go on Med-Surg, Telemetry or Progressive Care Unit. No need to be on the OB floor. We will do IV anti-emetics, IV fluids, close monitoring of labs and replacement of electrolytes- among other things.
“Are you sure that’s right?”
“No.”
Killed me
Sounds about right. My gma never led me wrong. U know everything i ever needed was in my own backyard.
That makes me think that if I get pregnant, I should just quarantine throughout the entire pregnancy.
Omg!!!! I work in a women's hospital and this is soooooo relatable. All of our SOP have a standard protocol, but then there is always a little "***" that says, "unless the patient is pregnant," which is 90% of our patients. Lol Also pregnant women's bodies can do literally the strangest stuff for no reason. We had a mother who completely switched blood types during her pregnancy, like O+ to a B-. It is just insane. This makes me feel so validated.😂😂😂
That's why studies on the pregnant person are so unreliable. Bodies just go wild and it's hard to establish a safe baseline. We know what can keep the fetus healthy. Mothers are basically on their own until there are more peer reviewed studies. And it's hard to get quality studies when few mothers want to possibly end up in the placebo group, or even worse, end up testing a drug that makes things worse for their child.
Let me guess...the baby was born B-.
@@lorieakin5771 you would be correct.
@@zachmeadows9206 Does she go back to being O+ after delivery?
I get the part were the blood can mix with O blood but does it go back?
@lorieakin5771 she did, but she held the blood type for like 3-4 months even after delivery. I mean I've seen weak d mothers finally hit full Rh after be pregnant, but losing her Rh, is a bit more strange as it is literally the whole reason rhogam exists for these Rh neg moms. I know certain subtypes a A can cause a false B. I would be with you on maybe mixing, but because she was typing B - when a fetal rapid screen was preformed, it came back as negative. Blood bank said it was just weird, thankfully mom didn't need blood during or post. Other than the change in blood type, her pregnancy was actually pretty simple. Only other weird thing I can remember is mother was barely 18 when she had baby. Maybe her age could play a factor compared to a more developed age.
Like the ER doc who sent the pregnant lady with a good pressure of 160/90 and a raging headache off to pregnancy assessment unit, at the other end of the hospital, on her own, on foot
“Something about gestation” took me out 😂
Can confirm: I was in the hospital for severe hydronephrosis pain at 18 weeks pregnant and they had no idea what they were allowed to do with me
I was out of state and my midwife told me to just go to urgent care to have something simple checked on me (I honestly can’t remember what it was). All they kept saying was they didn’t have the equipment to do a sonogram to check the baby. My husband and I ended up walking out because they couldn’t understand that the baby was gone, I just needed their eyes to look me over. I waited until I could drive back home since my midwife understood it was my needs that were a priority, not the baby’s.
I definitely call pharmacy when I have any questions about a med. When in doubt, ask questions, don't guess through anything as a nurse.
Someone in the pharmacy just stipped working, looked at their coworker and said "I feel like something is about to go wrong."
Doing research on pregnant bodies is harder so it gets skipped and then we don't know what is safe or not until retrospective studies are done, yay!
“Im calling my mom” me in any emergency