HILARIOUS Gynecology TikToks

These funny gynecology TikToks really capture ~the vibe~ of working in this field. Who broke the healthcare workers? What’s everyone’s (lighthearted) greatest fear at the gynecologist (including mine)? Join me, a real doctor, as I get absolutely read to filth by funny people on TikTok.
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[@MamaDoctorJones]

Have y'all been enjoying the shorts we're posting lately? What would you like to see more of - shorts, regular vids, or longer form content?

[@anon0124]

Love your long form! Learn so much!

[@Toadette-]

I like long form/regular videos, but I'll watch anything you post 😊

[@amyold199]

longer form please 🥺

[@godsavethequeen101]

Long or regular would be my vote. Shorts aren’t for me 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@magdolyn]

I like them all! 😊

[@KiraBKADestroyerOfWorlds]

Wanna know a secret? I actually feel *more* comfortable with the thought of my doctor conferring with other medical professionals, than with the idea of them just assuming themselves to always be correct.

[@LovelyLady1111]

This!

[@ange76prkr]

same, that's up there with doctors who are like "oh no that's not a lump" without checking.

[@britt905]

I am this way as a financial advisor. If it’s not something I do often or haven’t done myself before, I always consult additional resources or colleagues. And I’m honest with the client. I don’t need to pretend I know everything off the top of my head because nobody does.

[@LovelyLady1111]

@@britt905 yes that’s great! Especially with medical and financial info… I want the correct answer!! Lol

[@RachelRamey]

YES. One of the scariest things ever is an Arrogant, Know-it-all doctor. (Especially since, in my experience, they also tend to be the dumbest, most incompetent doctors. :P I've never met a *really good* doctor who's also cocky.)

[@bout3fiddy]

As someone else in the healthcare field, nothing frustrates me faster than insurance. Upset patients? Fine, easy. Technological problems? Not even an issue. Insurance? I will snap the phone in half.

[@WantedVisual]

I work for German health insurance, where there are laws in place assuring insurance is there to do what it says it will, and, honestly? Fair.

[@witch_in_a_wheelchair3050]

As a chronically ill patient who has almost given up on seeking care because of insurance, thank you for this comment. It is really nice to know it's not just me that's mad at the situation.

[@virginiahewitt8963]

As a pharmacy tech… insurance is the bane of my existence…

[@jennifertalwar6099]

I feel ya!!!

[@itsthatonechickagaincallth7843]

Let's get rid of it.

[@reality1701]

Listen, the fact you admitted you had no idea what some of the acronyms meant and looked them up and explained them to us makes me respect you even more! Being able to admit you don't know something and then saying "let's look this up together" is a sign of a competent provider 🥰

[@TheMadTek]

Same thing with texting colleague to confirm logic for patient treatment. In IT we call that a "sanity check."

[@emaliciously]

There is so much in medicine, nobody knows everything. Also, things change a LOT, so learning is a constant. It is a sign of a good doctor that they are always learning, always looking things up, and admitting they may not know something. (This is true for nurses, too. I am a RN, and she gets a thumbs up from me as well).

[@livingdread2343]

I'm a birth photographer who works with midwives. I can tell you the standing hammock looking technique is called a rebozo. I believe it's a Mexican or South American technique that can be done throughout pregnancy and up until birth to "wiggle the baby into optimal position" - also part of the "spinning babies model". Seems too gentle to have an effect, especially after a CA attempt that had failed. That baby is staying put, no wiggling will help. Lol😅

[@mommingpursuit]

My doula called it sifting. My understanding is it’s just for turning babies who are “sunny side up” but I doubt it would be enough for babies who are breech

[@3rdandForemost]

my midwife did the the robozo on me! But my baby wasn't breach, just not in a great position. Not sure how much it helped but he came out ok and it felt good while she was doing it!

[@Traumasthenia]

We did this as part of a Spinning Babies class. In the Wairarapa, NZ was is part of the government funded pregnancy care we could access alongside hypnobirthing and antenatal groups. It was amazing to access this for free because we could never have afforded the classes privately and it was all run by a local midwife, Carole who also organised having a funded Ipu Whenua (biodegrade hand-woven flax basket) available for every person who wanted one so they could bury their placenta. Rambling here because this may be of interest seeing as it is New Zealand based and birth related haha

[@harringt100]

That's what I thought it looked like. (Rebozo.) I'm no expert, but I think I've read if you use it a certain way it can help the baby move up out of the pelvis and give him/her more room to change position. Which would make sense if they were going to attempt the ECV again after that maybe?

[@xXxKaley2013xXx]

Regardless of if it spins the baby I just want someone to do that for my back! It looks like it feels SO good pregnant or not!

[@Typhanie1]

My husband suggested hanging a tennis ball at the end of the exam table like people do in the garage. 🤣🤣🤦‍♀️

[@MamaDoctorJones]

I. AM. CACKLING.

[@DuncanCrandell]

Ya, but then it's required that someone in the room making a beeping sound while she's scooching. :P

[@katherinetomasello3661]

Guy is for shore a genius.

[@laura749]

😂😂

[@valeriekhall]

My late Dad & Granddad were both OBGYN's, & both used to have the hanging tennis ball in their garages. I'm laughing so hard, I swear I can hear them laughing with me all the way from the afterlife! Please tell your husband that he is, in this instance, an absolute genius.

[@cloo6984]

My Gyno doesn't have an exam table. She has what looks like an open chair/toilet seat with a very high back. You simply sit on it. When she's ready to exam, she simply pushes a lever with her foot and it tilts and lowers/lifts as needed. There is no "scootching" required at all. It's genius and every office should have these! Btw, they aren't new..she had them in the late 90's.

[@MamaDoctorJones]

We have one of these at my clinic in NZ!! But I think they cost like $8-10k USD 🤫

[@jeanetteraichel8299]

They should be in every office. I hate the standard exam table you see in all type of doctor's offices.

[@masterohtime3085]

These are common in japan! My ivf clinic had them for every ultrasound and procedure, and it made things way more comfortable

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

Now that sounds fantastic and both terrifying at the same time lmfao. I *hate* the scootching thing so much!!!

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

@@masterohtime3085 I kinda wanna experience one now lol but I've only ever done the scootching -.-

[@pixiegirl131415]

I’m a nurse, and we read and write that shorthand all the time. One time I showed it to my preteen daughter, and she asked if I learned it in nursing school. I said “yes.” She then asked if we had a whole class on it, and when I explained that no, we just had to pick it up in clinicals, she was horrified. 🤣

[@RachelRamey]

I think that's hilarious, because I'm sure your daughter learned shorthand the same way -- hers is just for different content. You know: OMG, WTH, TL;DR, etc.

[@Phoenix-mh5eo]

Yes! Tell you what, being a CNA in a hospital prior to nursing school helped SO MUCH with the acronyms.

[@sidrat2009]

@@RachelRameyI am very glad leet didn't get a mention.

[@emily-rb5dk]

My high-school health science teacher taught us all the most common standard shorthand we did even more in our class. This helped soooooo much when I went into pharmacy cuz I already knew how to type most of it. I just had to learn the pharmacy system specific ones. It should really be a standard lesson in class at the beginning of the Healthcare education because ive seen some completely made up ones. I've had to tell a pharmacist she just can't put PB for a phenobarbital and expect everyone to know what she meant. I thought she meant peanut butter 😂

[@LiliGrosserova]

I think the scooting down is a game. Once I went to my OBQYN and sat right at the edge, so we don't have to go through the "scoot closer" situation. Needles to say, the surprised silence was real and we had nothing to talk/laugh about. Since then I always play the game with him cause it makes us both happier and less awkward ahaha

[@samjohnston4806]

I did the same at my gyno appt and the doctor laughed about how she didn't even have to mention scooting closer!

[@sidrat2009]

That guy is reacting the same way as a call center person with a semi prepared script! Run away & don't wait to pull your pants up! Unless you want to they're not bad per se but if he doesn't know what to do when he can skip the first ninety seconds what else is he missing?

[@lisaozenich]

I'm currently 15 weeks pregnant and for the rest of my appointments, I'm leaving my underwear on top of my clothes shamelessly every chance I get.

[@myreality5959]

Dude I never had too take off my pants or undies while being pregnant 😶

[@lisaozenich]

@@myreality5959 that's great for you

[@mayacarraway8953]

You probably will not have to take them off again until closer to the end! They don't do physical exams every appointment

[@mayacarraway8953]

Also congratulations!

[@kathrynsue1986]

congrats

[@Lizzie-uf3dt]

The funny thing is: she explained the medical shorthand into its full meaning, and I’m still no closer to understanding than I was before 😂

[@katvsdaedreamz8628]

THIS!!! lol

[@laurentheriot3777]

It’s all just heart related stuff, HTN: high blood pressure - PCI: Heart Cath that required stents to be put in so blood can flow the heart better, and effusion…. The best way I can explain it as is: you have a tube and dirty water is going through it - at first… it is able to flow thru normally at a fast rate which is good effusion - over time that dirt and mud is going to start sticking to the sides of the tube and start clogging up… therefore the water isn’t going to be able to pass thru as quickly and the effusion rate gets worse and worse until BOOM! Hose no longer works and breaks whatever it’s going thru to (Aka heart attack). Hopefully that helps you understand a little better if you even wanted to know that. Lol.

[@MamaDoctorJones]

haha. well, that would have been super helpful to explain 🤦‍♀ sorry!

[@laurentheriot3777]

@@MamaDoctorJones it may not be exactly accurate and cardiologists all over the world might be like “wtf?” But I did my best with no degree under my belt. Lmao! Also… I LOVE watching your videos! I just wanna let you know YOU ARE ARE AWESOME AND I LOVE YOUR CONTENT! One of my faves for sure!

[@Lizzie-uf3dt]

@@MamaDoctorJones it’s okay! I googled it 😂 let’s hope the internet doesn’t lie😆

[@sabrinamcadoo6635]

Was at an infusion center recently because I was getting iron infusions. An older woman there was being treated for cancer, who was visibly exhausted, constantly working on her laptop, attending company zoom meetings. And it was only so she could keep her job, to keep her health insurance. Crazy

[@sidrat2009]

Can they stop ongoing treatments above a certain threshold?

[@user-pt1cz4ot1e]

I had the belly giggling technique done with my son. 🙋🏼‍♀️ He wasn’t fully breach, but still sideways. After about 5 minutes of annoying the hell out of him and making me want to vomit, he cooperated and I had him in 3 good pushes. 💪🏻💜 Edit: I think the “too much of a hurry” comment wasn’t specifically about a random technique some doctors use sometimes, but about OBs being in a rush in general. Even with zero risk or danger, doctors jump to cesareans, even early into pregnancies. The US especially is extremely behind the times of childbirth. We are driven by money, rather than the actual health and happiness of patients. (Just like you say later. Lol. Nailed it.)

[@anwylhsm954]

I'm on my THIRD breech baby. Nobody has ever told me why my babies are always breech, I guess my friggin uterus is upside down. Nothing I tried with my first one would get her to turn. Then my son was 10 pounds and breech. Now this one appears to be in Frank breech, in this jack-knifed position, but spinning around on his butt so his legs and feet change position from left to right, but he's never head down. I'm 32 weeks now, too, almost no chance he's flipping, either. :/

[@NH-bz1qy]

@@anwylhsm954 mine turned after 38 w good luck I used Chiro and spinning babies techniques

[@doctorofletters8412]

Saying that doctors jump to c sections with zero risk if danger just isn’t true.

[@Rhianalanthula]

They induced me with my eldestcand everything was seemed normal initially, but when put on the foetal heart monitor around 3 hours later, my baby was in distress so I had an emergency c-sec. I had already been in hospital for a week with pre-eclampsia. My little prem was tiny and scrawny. She's now of voting age.

[@anahidkassabian4471]

I lived in the US until I was 45, and I’ve lived in the UK for the past 18 years. Thank you for the blunt reminder that however bad the NHS is-and it is truly broken-it’s nowhere near as bad as US healthcare.

[@laedifox]

Same thing for Canada! But I suspect it would become much better if 1) we loosened the restrictions for internationally-trained doctors, so more of them could come and work here, and 2) we loosened the provincial restrictions, so that doctors licensed in one province could practice nationwide. Same thing for nurses and other allied health professionals.

[@anahidkassabian4471]

@@laedifox We don’t have the provincial issue, but as you might imagine, the govt that’s sending asylum seekers to Rwanda isn’t great on international labour recruitment, even at a time when somewhere around 1 in 10 positions in the NHS are unfilled.

[@anyakimlin6702]

I said to a doctor before Christmas that I could be treated just as badly in the US, pay a fortune in health insurance and still lose my house, I didn't get any better healthcare in the US and it was so much more expensive.

[@anahidkassabian4471]

@@anyakimlin6702 I agree completely.

[@d.leighannbatemon3192]

​@@laedifox we have a refugee family from Afghanistan as neighbors. They are struggling to learn English, but trying so hard. He was a surgeon and even operated on American soldiers. Yet, now he works at a waste recycling center. It breaks my heart that his skills aren't being used.

[@vickyallan1940]

Had my smear test done recently and I thought I'd get ahead of the "scooch, scooch" and sat straight on the very end of the bed just to be told that her light doesn't reach so I had to shuffle up the bed to the normal position. 🤣🤣🤣 Just my luck 😂😂😂

[@lovelana3595]

😂🤣🤣😂!!

[@nolusizodlalisa5573]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thayerwilliams905]

🤣🤣🤣🤣I mean, what are the odds?! Lol

[@AllyRose24]

I misread this as “cooch scooch” and didn’t even question it. Only caught it when scrolling the comments a second time

[@gabybanderas8415]

awkward lol 😂

[@qienna6677]

As a New Zealander, although there are issues I come up against as someone with a rare genetic disease that doctors outside Auckland have never seen or managed, I remind myself every time I have issues that at least I didn't have to pay for my care and at least I got the major surgery I needed :)

[@sedonarose7563]

Yes! We Americans truly should be marching in the streets demanding universal healthcare

[@sociologica4247]

@@sedonarose7563 oh... in the US half of my friends would be bankrupt and I am middle age... crazy expensive and they feel like going yo the mecanich for some will try to get money over anything... it is horrible

[@sydneyfoster3693]

@@sedonarose7563 the irony is that those who need it most, for multitudes of reasons, cannot march in the street

[@haleyhowell7889]

​@Sydney Foster this needs to be on a million t-shirts

[@haleyhowell7889]

Ehlers Danlos by chance?

[@_ZombieDoll_]

Kiwi here, also someone with chronic illness who has been fighting to get seen by specialists and frequently turned away because I'm not "severe enough" since I was 13, the system here for sure isn't perfect, it could do with some massive improvements, got plenty of medical trauma to back that up, but good god am I glad to have what we do. I'd gladly take this over whatever is going on in the US. Also just because we have something that is better than other options, doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for better. If it can be improved we should always been fighting for that.

[@nixi-bixi]

I second that statement as a brit with multiple chronic illnesses & the nhs. It's currently a dumpster fire, but it's STILL 10,000 x better than in the usa....

[@ElenaVexler]

But is it still possible to see a specialist privately if you can pay for it? Or only through the system?

[@banannysplit]

I've used the scarf to shift baby into a more favorable position before (from asynclitic, not breech!). I believe it's from the rebozo technique, but we just call it "shake the apples"

[@junoantaresofficial]

I would imagine the technique is used because you lift the mother to be from the hips which allows gravity to help get the baby out of the pelvic dip into a more favorable position that allows a little more maneuvering than when they are in the pelvis area when close to delivery.

[@lenakohl2339]

@@junoantaresofficial I had the same idea.

[@datfae7694]

I also used a similar technique in my labor but not for breech. My contractions had slowed, and that was one of the things my doula showed me to help get them going again. It was very helpful for me. She called it shaking the apple tree, I was on all fours instead of my back, though ^.^

[@MichelleSweeny]

yes, it's making fun of a Mexican midwife scarf called a reebozo. but reebozo sifting is not done from that angle..... and by the time external version is needed reebozo sifting is probably not gonna work... it would be something to try around 30-32 weeks to help baby get head down... if baby is wedged in between bones this method kind of helps pop baby out of it's stuck position.

[@Nevertoleave]

@@junoantaresofficial it actually reminds me of when ultrasound techs need the baby to turn. Not sure it has anything to do with gravity but rather getting the baby to move themselves into a more favourable position. I would bother my babies as well, if they were laying inside me in a way that hurt, like pressing out instead of back, in order for them to move. And they would roll over, move towards my back, or even flip over. Although sometimes I just got a fuck you kick and she/he would keep doing what they wanted, namely sleep.

[@VeraBean]

Funny comment about underwear at the gyno. When my kid was a toddler maybe two almost three. She not only pulled my underwear out to give to me during the exam. But to hand them to me she ended up smacking the doctor in the face with them. I was mortified and from then on made triple sure I had a sitter. Luckily the doctor also had kids and was fully understanding.

[@leza4453]

Lol!!

[@Meeeesje]

😂

[@chickadee317]

Omg that's hilarious 😂

[@anadd6195]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH that was hilarious! 😂😂😂😂

[@lizziemomof3558]

Lmao 😂

[@valkyrie1066]

OMG the cat kills me! Yes, falling off the bottom of the table is the scooch sweet spot. "Are we sexually active?" I'm 64. I don't know about YOU lady, but.....I tell them "inactive but ever hopeful." Thank you, thank you, for the chuckles.

[@shizgirl]

I used to work in admin for a university department of medicine and our former head of the department, a cardiologists, started his career in the United States and worked in several different states and ended up moving to Canada where this university is and he told me point-blank that yes Canada has a few problems but the problems in United States are profoundly worse in every single possible way. I’m glad you get to see what government healthcare can be like and have that little bit of relief for a while.

[@HSMfanatic17]

That girl at 6:14 had me laughing. The way she was whispering certain parts and casually chewing gum was hilarious.

[@MamaDoctorJones]

I think all her videos are so funny :)

[@jmr9735]

I absolutely cringe anytime someone sends me a tik tok video. They are the absolute worst, and I don't understand the popularity. I have to say that this particular video was the first time I actually snickered at one.

[@AKbaby89]

The "the edge of the table should be in the middle of your back" made me holler🤣🤣🤣

[@alyssacoggins4385]

7:10 as someone who was left exposed at 7 months pregnant with my legs in the stirrups while the doctor left the room to find a doppler and left the door ajar. I'd rather you whisper for help with things. It was humiliating being exposed in such a way

[@theidea1996]

Hi, Uk midwife here! The post ECV video was a Robozo. It’s a scarf technique used for centuries in South America mostly used for turning OP babies ❤ Love your videos!

[@Theherbalempress]

I think one of the worst experiences I have had with a gyno is when I was like 8cm dilated and she was so concerned with asking me about birth control. My husband yelled at her that I wasn’t in the mood to talk about birth control right now. Luckily there was a shift change so she didn’t deliver my baby.

[@wmdkitty]

A little late to be talking about birth control, eh?

[@miegravgaardxoxo]

@@wmdkitty Just a little 😄

[@sandysanchez7151]

Lolz... it's one of those things that they ask because it's a "good" time to ask since they're already working down there you can get a 'two for one' deal I walked in at a little over 9 cm dilated and they asked me too - I hadn't really thought about it 🤔 but they were nice and moved on quickly 😁👶🏻

[@carag2567]

@@sandysanchez7151 What's the other half of the two-for? Do you mean like an IUD insertion? I'm trying to figure out what the OB/GYN could be offering as an "oh say, while I'm down here..." type situation LOL! My first GYN used to try selling me laser hair removal when he was doing my exams.

[@abigailcripps5449]

@@carag2567 that’s so rude omgg! but yeah you can’t have an IUD right after giving birth, gotta wait 12 weeks so your uterus doesn’t perforate. i know some people have their tubes tied when they have a c section tho

[@surpriseitsemily]

I see the OBGYN tmw and I’m mentally preparing by watching MDJ videos. As a victim of SA the OBGYN is a super tough and uncomfortable/unpredictable experience for me and ever since finding your videos you’ve helped me to cope with those experiences ❤️❤️❤️

[@MamaDoctorJones]

Make sure you ask to speak with them before you're undressed and let them know you're nervous and this is why! Take a support person if needed.

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

@@MamaDoctorJones ♥

[@yippee8570]

It's the one and only time I ask for diazepam, just a couple, for the same reason

[@MaineCoonMama18]

I remember that feeling. I know it's so hard to go, and I hope you're proud of yourself for pushing through to take care of your health. It can get easier with time and a great doctor. I'm 12 years out from repeated SA and going to the OBGYN doesn't really trigger me anymore.

[@tinkeramma]

I am also a survivor. I remind my provider each time and let them know I *need* to know each thing they're doing step by step. For me personally, that approach helps calm my anxiety and separates bad touch from medical touch.

[@lynnecraill1632]

With regard to the first one, I once had a doctor stay with me while I partially undressed. I'd had a breast lump removed and he needed to check the wound. I can tell you that undressing in front of a doctor is very different from being undressed in front of a doctor. It made me feel sooo uncomfortable.

[@sheliadrennan653]

U didn't have a curtin...

[@samjohnston4806]

How unprofessional! I'm sorry you had to go through that...

[@Chels-fz5uq]

That was completely inappropriate. He should have absolutely left the room and given you a gown and then had a chaperone when he came back in.

[@leapace9480]

They tried that towel thing on me during my last birth when my baby's head was engaged at a bad angle. It worked! He shimmied back down the birth canal and re-engaged. I gave birth vaginally a few hours later. He wasn't breech, though so it was probably easier.

[@GingerBread1004]

I gave a urine sample the day before I was induced and the three nurses there all RAVED about how hydrated I was. Thanks guys. Dealing with hypertension that you guys are checking to make sure isn't turning into preeclampsia, but at least my pee is the right color. 👍

[@heathercontois4501]

You want the urine to be the right color when you're hydrated since it's an indicator.

[@lilamerican7296]

Doula here! Pretty sure she was using a rebozo. Mexican traditional wrap used to "sift" the belly. Never saw it done with the patient on her back though. They tend to be helpful in certain cases as there have been studies done!

[@MamaDoctorJones]

Oh my gosh I've never even heard of this, thank you for sharing! Off to travel down a rabbit hole. :)

[@angela_flute52689]

@@MamaDoctorJones There are a few neat techniques like this that don't seem to be discussed beyond the home birth/midwife/birth center circles, but they're evidence-based! But they take more time and interaction, and are therefore not as easily adopted or allowed by hospitals who don't necessarily have that sort of staff or time availability when they could use meds or surgeries instead, even though relying too much on meds can cause a "cascade of interventions" and seem to prove that meds are needed, when in many cases they were the cause of or catalyst to further problems. But a lot of it is what patients expect and are comfortable with, and it takes time to change their minds to not rely so much on meds either. But if they are willing to try techniques like the Gaskin Maneuver (for shoulder dystocia), the rebozo technique for flipping a baby (but usually done standing, if I remember right), and so many others that are safe for the majority of people, that can go a long way!

[@lilamerican7296]

@@MamaDoctorJones Would love you to make a video about doulas! I bet you have some stories 😂. Are they a thing in New Zealand?

[@Umtata64]

@lil American they are! But also most of our maternity care is through midwives. A lot of people birth at birthing centres with only midwives attending, and even in hospitals the midwife team manages labour and delivery unless obstetric intervention is required.

[@abulliemama3841]

Yes, I came here to say the same thing. It seems unconventional, but I thought it might be rebozo

[@kat_trabue]

I still get anxiety about the underwear thing because my very first every gynocologist appt at like 12 the doctor full blown yelled at me for leaving my underwear visible on the top of my clothing pile. She told me I was disgusting and that she was going to leave the room and when she came back she expected them to be put away. If it happened now or to my daughter I've tell her that her attitude was what was disgusting and storm out but at the time I was mortified and it lead to a real fear of gynocologist appts for quite some time.

[@doctorofletters8412]

Wow that’s really awful, I’m so sorry.

[@lilykep]

Gyno told me to take my feet out of the stirrups and my ass was so far down that I literally fell off the table. He turned away, I took my feet down said "Oh SHIT!", he heard a thump and turned back to see my naked butt on the floor laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.

[@captsamsung]

I, too, am guilty of putting my undies under my pants when i go for my annual gyno appointment. Why do we do this?! 🤣🤣🤣

[@MamaDoctorJones]

I know, right!? It's universal - at the massage therapist as well 🤣

[@imzadi83fanvids7]

@@MamaDoctorJones Yes, I do it with my bra too, lol.

[@dibsdibs3495]

I used to do that too but my dentist thought it was weird, so I stopped.

[@saraquill]

They can see my cervix, but not my undergarments!

[@meganhirschi6248]

Underwear goes under! N exceptions. 😄

[@scarletteddards6034]

I feel so validated knowing everyone else hides their underwear too😂😂😂

[@tesshagensieker1700]

I shove it into the pockets of my pants lol

[@blugreen123]

It's one of the universal human experiences. 😂

[@annnee6818]

​@@blugreen123 I don't. I've never done it. It hadn't even occurred to me people do this. Like they're literally staring into my cooch why would I be embarrassed about my panties🤣🤣

[@jntrahin]

I think its bc we think of a gyno visit as too personal, so we protect the one last shred of privacy we have 😂

[@tparker4458]

Funny thing is, no one has taught us this either. 100% instinct!!! 😂😂😂

[@Camille4Real]

Ah! The rebozo method! Never seen it done while laying on your back. I also didn't know it was to attempt to shift the baby. I used to do it for lower back pain and pelvic relief when I was pregnant. I'd get on all fours, my husband would take a bed sheet and gently hoist my belly upward (towards my spine), and rock my belly left to right. FELT SO GOOD!

[@ncburton1713]

The one where you were talking about the pull out method reminded me of a quote from one the books in the Outlander series. Not verbatim but it went something like, "You know what they call people who use the pull out method?" "what?" "Parents." I had to stop the audiobook so I could laugh. It also reminds me though of how often my fiance is asked if there's a chance she's pregnant. The answer is always no, because I'm a transguy and her only partner. I usually have to mention that I'm trans before they drop the subject. 😂

[@jesssocko]

UK midwife here! The using of the sheet to help turn baby is called rebozo. Limited research- the intention is to loosen up ligaments around the uterus to enable baby to turn.

[@annemariefoley6059]

A rebozo can help reposition a baby but it is often used while mom is on her hands and knees, not on her back. It is used by midwives and doulas in a few ways.

[@Panda72021]

I could definitely imagine that the method would be more effective (or at least have a larger chance of being more effective) the way you describe how the mother is supposed to be positioned. The way they were doing it in the clip, not only looked like it was absolutely useless, but I can only imagine it was exhausting for the medical staff.

[@sarahgoldberg6614]

It's pelvic sifting with a reboso. I was told about this during ante-natal classes as something that could be tried in the weeks before labour to encourage the baby to be in the right position. I have no clue if it works, but it felt really good on my lower back and pelvis when I was in the third trimester.

[@nothankyewpls]

My dad (who works in healthcare) got a 90 cent raise and we're now over the line for Medicare. The pandemic made it so that no one can get booted off of healthcare, but since there are rumors that the pandemic relief will cut off in April, we've been getting everything checked out now that we possibly can. I have hip problems, back problems, and possible sleep apnea, but the tests, x-rays, doctors visits, etc take months to happen. For the sleep apnea there is so much evidence that I have it, but the second doctors visit (first was consultation with an ENT) to set up the sleep test is in two months. Can't breathe? Too bad. Thanks US healthcare!

[@turtlescanfly7]

Did you mean Medicaid? Medicare is for seniors and certain disabled folks, your income shouldn’t effect your ability to qualify for Medicare

[@nothankyewpls]

@@turtlescanfly7 Yes, sorry

[@Gingerrrrsnapps]

Ok so instead of mooching off the state have your dad get ins through work and actually pay for your own ins.

[@nothankyewpls]

@@Gingerrrrsnapps it's funny how ignorant and insensitive you are, I hope you learn compassion and an actual understanding of how the world works soon :)

[@turtlescanfly7]

@@Gingerrrrsnapps it’s not mooching. When you file for taxes with the IRS do you itemize or take the take incentive you qualify for? Our government passed laws giving certain benefits for people who qualify. Using these benefits is the exact same as when people and businesses use their tax breaks or any other government handout. If you don’t believe in government handouts then go live off grid and rely only on yourself. Part of living in a society is using tax dollars to take care of everyone from roads, emergency services and yes Medicaid if you qualify.

[@lordvlygar2963]

I did learn something today. I learned that meds that go into the vagina are still called suppository. For some reason, I had always seen the term as anal only.

[@Miss-Anne-Thrope]

I always thought that suppositories go in the butt, pessaries go in the vagina. I guess the terms can vary depending on where someone lives

[@Absbabs88]

​@@Miss-Anne-Thropepessary is a device inserted into the vagina in cases of prolapse, to try and hold up the organs.

[@loramartin8525]

​@@Miss-Anne-Thrope a pessary is a device, not a med.

[@cruztastrophe]

Probably because anal suppositories are universal but vaginal suppositories would only be pertinent to half the population, so you're less likely to hear about it.

[@lalawala9929]

@@cruztastrophe "only half the population " honestly doesnt seem like an appropriate justification since it's still a lot 🤣 like if the circumstance were to be half the population is terminally ill then that wouldn't really justify not talking about it since it's not everyone. But I hear what you mean. Since it affects the lesser sex it's not worth talking about

[@Toadette-]

2:53 THIS caught me so off guard, I nearly fell out if my chair laughing...

[@MamaDoctorJones]

same 🤣

[@cookingcaliente9680]

Hahhaha literally my first gyno appt when i was like 17, the second i put my foot in the stirrups , jazz music started, i was like wtf? And said “oh, do they always do that?” He was like “oh no, sorry that was my phone” 😂 i almost died of embarrassment! (This was also like 15 years ago, when everyone didnt all have the same ring tone hahah)

[@SarahDenna]

11:10 SOOO ACCURATE!! I was basically completely celibate at one time and then had an unplanned encounter with a guy and he was shocked when i said I wasnt on birth control and responded fairly similarly to this. Like... we are gonna be using a condom dude. I dont even know if youre clean.

[@PinkDappleleaf]

What you say about your job tied to your health is so true! My husband has epilepsy, and when we visit his neurologist, he always sends over a new refill, just in case. Well, he once sent it right when he had another refill already ready, which means on the Walgreens app it showed up as an "early refill" and wasn't covered by insurance Do you know how much a 90 day supply of epilepsy meds are without insurance? $1,300!!!!! He needs to take them every day or he has a seizure!!! And he only has a job cause I can drive him. But he wouldn't be able to work unless he had his meds. But he only has his meds cause work gives him insurance It still boggles my mind that your health is tied so close to your job

[@mienafriggstad3360]

Even here in 🇨🇦 with national health care; we pay a lot for medications without supplementary health insurance. I have two children on the Autism Spectrum & have ADHD who are allergic to many more reasonabley priced medications

[@amyw6808]

What’s most staggering is that so many people in USA are so emotionally and personally attached to the idea that you should have this issue. As an outsider looking in, our jaws are consistently on the floor when people share stories like yours. In UK, your husband’s medication would be free. Not even the standard £9 prescription charge, as it’s a chronic condition that is exempt.

[@powers1217]

A 30-day supply of one of my Crohn’s disease medications is over $1800 before insurance. And it’s not even a new drug or a biologic. Ridiculous!!!

[@jenromano19]

@@powers1217 Yep. My dad's COPAY on one of his diabetes medications is $1500. It's INSANE. We actually order his medication from New Zealand now, but it's hard to find programs to do that, because God forbid they allowed us to order identical drugs from other countries on our own. This is a brand-only med to this point, so he gets the exact same bottle he would in the US from NZ for $300 TOTAL. No insurance. And that's 90 days. The only downside is you have to remember to order 45 days before you will need the medication.

[@mycatistypingthis5450]

It is a ransom situation

[@heatheragent8249]

Had a doctor tell me once that she had an OB colleague who bought a boat and named it “Scoot Down”

[@caitlin2649]

Im an L&D nurse. That sheet wiggling thing looks very similar to one step of a positioning circuit called the Gilligan's circuit that we use for turning OP babies. Weve never used it for verting breech babies though lol. For non epiduralized patients they can do this in a tub filled with enough water to support their hips and let them support their own weight. We don't stand on the beds, for patients with epidurals I grab another nurse and we use a draw sheet and stand on each side to lift her hips and wiggle baby up. This is just one step of the circuit, and the idea is to give baby a little bit of room to wiggle back up just enough to make rotating easier, and then we do right and left sidelying release to try and rotate baby. There are a couple other steps that we sometimes do. I don't know the stats but I think the circuit is successful enough to be worth trying when we suspect or know the baby is OP. I'm still new but I've had success with it.

[@pelvicjoy]

Hello, pelvic physical therapist here! At 4:35 they're using a rebozo sifting technique! Rebozo is the name of the piece of fabric, but a sheet or towel works fine too. There are many techniques from Mexico using the rebozo to support during birth. This one takes some pressure off the low back and pelvis, and it's something pelvic PTs learn to support during birth or teach support partners. I learned it as a pain relief technique primarily, but Spinning Babies teaches it as an option to help encourage fetal repositioning.

[@lauraelliott6909]

One thing to add re: US Healthcare system: sometimes insurance companies try to practice medicine. When your doctor orders or prescribes something but your insurance company says you don't need that, have you tried all these standard options? But yet your records clearly show that you have. Then they deny it anyway because it's not the "typical" rx or treatment.

[@Just_One_Tree]

Yes. Why does my doctor’s office need to send in a “prior authorization” for a medication, when the doctor wrote the prescription?! 🤬 Its infuriating

[@alexp5364]

For the tik tok at 5:13, my dad did that to my sister when the doctor told her the baby was not facing the correct way. My dad held my sister by the arms and shook her side to side. My sister said it hurt a little but the baby was positioned correctly next time she went to the doctor. It's a mexican thing from what I've heard.

[@Caitydid561]

I gotta say, as someone who's not a healthcare worker, most of those factors are pretty close to breaking the patients, too. Especially the insurance part and the healthcare workers being pushed to see more patients in a day. Edit: Not only can losing your job affect your insurance and healthcare availability, but your ability to get insurance can also force you to have to take more hours on your job or to ask for a raise, just so you don't lose that insurance. I know this from experience. It happens to me once a year, 'cause every year Covered California raises their baseline, and if you're working minimum wage you're gonna get stuck on MediCal unless you work two jobs.

[@sheilarough236]

There’s a book where the daughter tells her physician mother , that she used the pull out method with her boyfriend & she couldn’t be pregnant. The mother says to her daughter “ you know what’s we call people who use the pull out method, parents “

[@iyaayas]

Worked for us. All 5 pregnancies in the space of 18 years were planned. Zero surprises.

[@WaitingxInxSilence]

@@iyaayas There is a “right way” to do it- like peeing first to help clear out any loitering sperm and practicing when to pull out. My old sex ed class just said it was just “abandoning ship” last second. (But then, the class mainly served to scare people.)

[@lotrfan8]

​@@WaitingxInxSilence I'm quite sure I read that the withdrawal method used correctly is about 94% effective. But of course it's not often used correctly...

[@valeriesrtaskey9208]

Worked for me. Had 3 planned pregnancies 3 yrs apart. Decided to have no more & did not get pregnant again. Always used pull out method

[@sidrat2009]

@@WaitingxInxSilence Loitering Sperm should be a band name or a pro-wrestling tag team. Either or doesn't matter they're still crap.

[@SheilaR.08]

I agree with you regarding our broken healthcare system. I had surgery for cancer a few years ago, and was out on short-term leave during treatment. Because I was a few hours shy for qualifying for legal short-term protection, my employer dropped me from my health insurance in the middle of radiation. I told them I'd be stuck and unable to continue it, but they said that they couldn't help me. Yet CustomInk busts their ass to get named to the "best places to work" list every year. 😂

[@nancyhope-landon9185]

It’s scary for me that it’s scary for you .😊

[@CherryJuli]

Wtf. The US is an insane place.

[@thayerwilliams905]

Love you casually name dropping the company. Good for you

[@sedonarose7563]

And just is so crazy that if we actually *need* health insurance for something major, we can’t work, we can’t work, we can’t make money, we can’t keep a job, we lose our insurance. Soooooooooo yeah. Why we aren’t marching in the streets demanding our Representatives and Senators change the laws and initiate Universal Healthcare. I’m so sorry you are struggling w cancer and loss of job and all of that. Hang in there, friend.

[@manyagaver1946]

Thank you for name dropping the company, I’ll never use them

[@tiffanychildwithin]

Not an OB or midwife and don't know about that technique for a breech baby either, BUT as a doula I do some techniques similar for labor comfort (though with the person on all fours usually) that are really effective for comfort mostly and possibly have a positional benefit (but not necessarily breech presentation).

[@brigettemary7640]

My baby turned breech at 38+6 (was head down at 38+5). I used some Spinning Babies techniques similar to this and acupuncture as I wasn’t a candidate for an EGC. Baby was confirmed head down by 39+1 and arrived less than a week ago. 😊

[@arctic_desert]

Less than a week omg!! Happy literal birthday to the little one

[@brigettemary7640]

@@arctic_desert yes I was being monitored for something else, normally appointments wouldn’t be that frequent and that’s how I knew she was head down one day and breech the next. Talk about drama! So happy it all worked out in the end.

[@ginger_nspice]

You know it's good when you have to keep pausing and replaying the video cus you were laughing too hard 😂

[@sunkissed_grl]

9:48 facts 💯, from a professional patient (= 3 chronic illnesses) 12:40 every Dr should feel confident enough to call a colleague when they have that feeling their treatment method could be wrong/*done different/better/or just need validation. My surgeon took “45 extra min”, to save my tatto, he is my rockstar. As a patient that doesn’t fit in a box, this is what I look for in a great Dr! *edit

[@XSemperIdem5]

I appreciate doctors who know when to consults colleagues. It's the ones that act too confident when they're wrong that I don't like. One time when my mom was in the ER they told us they would likely admit her. The doctor returned some time later to explain that she consulted a couple of other doctors, including an attending, and they were instead discharging her. In that case it was the right call and I appreciated that she did that.

[@saneminotaur]

I had a pap test a while ago and because I have a tilted uterus and a high/ far back cervix, it took a fair while to get me into a position that would allow the nurse to swab me.... felt like I was doing yoga on the exam table! I love your vids and you are such a lovely person; can tell you really care about your patients and your viewers. Hope tomorrow is a better day for you

[@ladypeiandtheclown5410]

The “ you need to drink more water and the ice in your coffee doesn’t count “ part😂😂😂😂

[@johannaverplank4858]

A few years ago I became too was too sick to work and lost my job. I’m diabetic, I have Homozygous MTHFR, and BRCA 1. I didn’t have health care for two years. I felt awful all the time. I was also terrified of having another stroke and getting cancer because I didn’t have money for the medications and surgeries I needed. I was finally able to get government funded health insurance. No one should have to endure that. Something has to be done about the health care system in the US. Anyway, I definitely need a good laugh. Thank you for all your wonderful and educational videos!

[@karenberhow7483]

The sheet thing is called sifting. I’ve see midwives do it to try to encourage rotation in a funny side up baby. And seen it work. But never to flip a breech!

[@jahbern]

My midwife flipped my sunny side up baby via rebozo. Thank GOODNESS, because I had already pushed out two previous sunny side up babies years before and my tail bone has never recovered 😂

[@krymsonuchiha14]

I definitely agree with the Healthcare part. I'm currently living in the UK for my masters, and I'm hoping to stay here. I never felt that I belong in the US, but I also have Athsma and fibromgia. When I registered and got my NHS number I teared up. Because now I know I can go to ay doctor to be treated and if I get sick I don't have to worry so much about insurance. It's not perfect here either, but I still prefer socialized Healthcare too.

[@warriormamma8098]

Husband and I used pull out method because we were ok if we got pregnant. Did that for 10 yrs and the only two pregnancies we had were planned and both took 3 months to occur. Only recommend if you are in a caring, committed, stable, monogamous relationship with finances to support a child. I stayed home nearly 22 yrs with our 4 daughters. (We each had one from a previous marriage.)

[@michellecoleman5577]

8:59 PSA: If you're someone who researches too much on the internet when your doctor can't give you an answer that works for your problem of almost constant yeast infections and then makes your own boric acid suppositories: DO NOT USE REGULAR BORIC ACID. The boric acid in those is not the crystals you see for killing bugs, it's a powdered form you can find at a pharmacy.

[@MamaDoctorJones]

OMG nooooo - yes buy it on amazon or from the pharmacist!

[@tylerray1368]

Would you be up to making a video about hysterectomies and endometrosis? I had to get a hysterectomy in my very early twenties and it was really hard to get reliable information about long term risks!

[@mpfarymaestas3324]

I second the request. I had a hysterectomy due to cervical cancer scare and told after I had severe endometriosis and my oncologist use the term " everything was glued together and I made him work very hard,." He also said he "nicked" my bladder and sent me home with a catheter. Do I need checked again. Never have no news is good news Right?

[@Absbabs88]

As someone who got a hysterectomy 6 months ago, they are woefully unexplained to us, I think because it's so common a surgery. I wish I would have known that 6 months after, I'd feel worse than before, and have to be doing pelvic floor PT once or twice a week and who even knows if I'll ever feel normal again, because at this point, sure doesn't seem like it

[@mumsageek1883]

I'd like to add ablations as well. I'm getting one next month and freaking out a bit.

[@utej.k.bemsel4777]

From Germany: Here you get a sheet in wich everything is explained to you, even with pictures. You have to sign it that you have read and understood it too.

[@evelynkrull5268]

Lol whenever I hear socialized Healthcare people complain, I can't help but laugh because they'll say "yeah you have to pay a bunch but you get to see someone right away. You have to wait three whole months to see someone" and im here like "yeah waitlists here are 3-6 months for EXISTING patients. And I have to pay $600 MINIMUM each visit without insurance. Or 100-200 with insurance"

[@isabellearmstrong2542]

CNM here. The Breech sifting is a rebozo technique that comes from indigenous midwives form Mexico and Guatemala. the shawl is called a rebozo. more used to encourage OP to OA vs breech from what i've seen :)

[@Kattawhat]

As an MD myself, I laughed way too hard at the video with the various medical acronyms. Yes, it is sometimes so tempting to read it that way!

[@InHimAlone]

It is rebozo sifting. Some hospitals are using this as a technique now, but midwives and different cultures have used it for many years. I have heard it more for getting baby in a better position, like turning a little, engaging the head, not so much completely turning a breech baby. It can also be done with mom in different positions - sitting and standing - so the person doing it wouldn't necessarily need to stand on the bed. I am guessing in this case it was a last ditch try to turn baby and it couldn't hurt anything.

[@beyedoc]

Hitting home too hard. My whole life is ruined, including my ability to work as a doctor, after getting chronic illness in America. Too real 😢

[@KxNOxUTA]

I love that you talked about the last bit of how medical professionals are also people and training just cannot replace what it's like to make independent decisions and own up to them, no matter the field of expertise. And actually that feeling can come up again even after many years, when an issue is on the more unique side. These were fun. And imagine that, I was JUST in the underpants situation earlier today and because I have actually actively questioned my behaviour, I made a conscious choice to leave my underwear out on top, in the order of putting my clothes back in again. And I told myself I have to reason for shame and that this makes sense. And I felt really good about it. Cause I'm on my way to dismantle all the learned and unwarranted shame that we learn subconsciously and teach absolutely without intent via modelling. Internalised subconscious shame is really hard to weed out. But then suddenly there's a lot more freedom, when the new consciously formed habits start to settle in. I'd like to know if boys borther to hide their boxershorts and underpants for exams. I'm genuinely curious. I can imagine it, since there's also stuff like boys feeling ashamed of moms attending to their underwear laundry etc. It is instinctive to hide vulnerabilities. And somehow underwear in and off itself is burdened with the notion shame. Bodies are. That stuff is running really deep!

[@crisaybar4895]

I had an external cephalic version with my second kid, definitely not fun but I preferred it to a C-section. 😅

[@stellannie86]

I don't know why the "penis clean-ish" got me 🤣🤣

[@B.H.56]

I loved the "Could already be dead"!

[@tammystockley-loughlin7680]

The whole bit was too funny. Positive vibes from New Hampshire,remember to be kind to each other and yourself during these trying times.

[@504CreoleCrystal]

9:22 ALSO…I’m a prior authorization specialist for a specialty pharmacy. I HATE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THE INCOMPETENT PPL THEY HIRE!!! And I say that with over 20 years pharmacy experience!!! I had one try to argue that a certain injectable medication comes in single packaging and that’s why a PA was denied. Give me an NDC to look up (that I know by heart) and CLEAR AS DAY it’s a double pack. Asked her if she bothered to look it up herself? She did…oh. It says 2. Yes bitch. It does!!! 👿😡🤬

[@OrangeCat1992]

I have MS, and I had a hospital stay that lasted 10 days in 2019, during which two of my physicians told me the American healthcare system was broken and hanging by a thread. An entire year before COVID,they were warning me to be proactive about my healthcare because no-one else was going to be an advocate for me in our system. I already knew this because I had been struggling for years dealing with insurance and other things, but it was shocking to hear it from the doctors themselves.

[@stacyduncombe9431]

My pelvic floor PT (who does VERY THOROUGH pelvic exams with great frequency) said that the “scooch scooch scooch is primarily because of the shape of the speculum. Which makes sense bc when you are in labor and having a cervical check they don’t make you scooch.

[@wendybalivet6543]

These are all great. I do a lot of women's health and I tell people to scootch down until it "feels like you're hanging out in space" (and I do explain why) - those videos made me laugh. Re: the "texting my former co-residents" - I've been a doc for almost 23 years, and I still go into where the other docs in my office are sitting and say, "I have a doctor-brain question" (meaning, I don't have a specific question for a specific doc, but I want feedback from the "hive mind"). Bravo. :)

[@bethowens8863]

A Kiwi with an American partner chiming in here - my partner recently had a referral for a specialist eye exam in Christchurch, which could either be done privately or through the public healthcare system. Private healthcare isn't actually better quality in NZ; it basically means you skip the queue and get seen quicker (a lot of specialists work in both public and private settings). Since the vast majority of people don't have health insurance here, going private means having to pay out of pocket, something that GPs are very sensitive to. Turns out my partner's GP was friends with the specialist, and so managed to negotiate for my partner to only pay the consultation fee while the tests were free. This worked out to be about only $200 USD - my partner's parents literally couldn't compute not just how cheap this was, but also the willingness to waive fees basically out of the principle that healthcare shouldn't cause financial struggles. People complain about healthcare in NZ (sometimes with good reason) but I'm thankful every day that we never have to worry about losing our home or life savings to medical costs.

[@rripley86]

The thing with the sheet is called Rebozo. It's not something I've trained in, but definitely something I'd love to learn. From my loose understanding, there are various positions you have the pregnant person adopt, then the Rebozo (that's the name of the scarf) is jiggled like that to lift the presenting part. I've heard of it used for malpositions, but not for breech, but I imagine the same theory applies. Can't comment on its effectiveness though as it's only something I've read about, not seen used.

[@donnaperyginathome]

I see an NP who is sitting there constantly googling my symptoms while I am talking to her. Some people might feel like that is a sign of ineptitude, but I feel like hey she's actually listening to me and trying to figure out the problem.

[@piarateking8094]

id prefer that then just shrugging sending you out with no answers or telling you its anxiety

[@TurtleJulia]

@@piarateking8094 Yes! I don't expect my doctors to know everything, I just expect them to believe me and figure stuff out with me.

[@abbienormals1669]

10:20 I had what I'm pretty sure was a UTI about a year ago. I say 'I'm pretty sure' because I had this painful condition where it hurt literally EVERY time I peed for TWO months before I went to the doctor.(I waited two months because I'm poor and no insurance) I hadn't had intercourse in years (not an STI) and so all signs pointed to a UTI. The test came back negative. So he ordered a vaginitis test... because it burned when I went pee... and we all know that the two are close... so... maybe? Yeah, that test also came back negative. He prescribed the same goddamned antibiotics he would have if he hadn't ordered those two tests though, and, surprise of surprises, I got better!!! Its not like I asked for narcotics. I just wanted to pee without crying from the pain in my cooch. Just give me the frickin antibiotics without charging me $160 for the dr fee and another $160 for the tests. Please.

[@ellerj641]

I got really sick over a month ago and was running to the bathroom at least five times a day for two weeks. The lab my culture was sent to, decided to take their sweet time. The doctor wanted to wait to see what I had before prescribing me medicine. Here I was, in excruciating pain, couldn't stop blowing my bowels out, couldn't lay down because of pain so no sleep every night, I could barely eat and barely drink anything. Doctor calls the lab to see what is taking so long. Lab just says they're still waiting for results. A whole week passes and the pain is just getting worse and worse. I'm practically crying at this point. Doctor decides to go ahead and give me antibiotics. My goodness those antibiotics were a godsend. Pain went away and I finally got better. Then the lab calls back, "Everything was negative." Um....If I didn't have anything, the antibiotics wouldn't have worked. Thankfully at that point I finally had insurance. The last doc I went to kept trying to run all these unnecessary tests on me then charge me ridiculous amounts for them. They even screwed me over by telling me the whole charge was $175 and it covered whatever tests they needed to run. I got an over $300 bill from them for everything.

[@abbienormals1669]

@@ellerj641 Yeah, same here! Just prescribe some antibiotics already. I don't come in regularly for them. Just frickin do it! I figured maybe the tests came back negative for me because I drank LOTS of water, since the pain was less when I drank a lot. So maybe the test couldn't see bacteria when it was diluted? You'd think it would be better, but who knows.

[@mombythec]

My doctor stopped taking my insurance so I had to switch to a whole new office and saw the on call for my UTI symptoms which already included kidney pain (long history). So I end up with this DO and my dip stick looked clear so he’s saying it’s my nerve damage from all the past infections, stones and surgeries I’ve had and has me jacked up in all these crazy positions and he’s pushing and pulling. No help, but I go home and get worse and worse…however, I really do get nerve pain that mimics infections sometimes apparently, because sometimes I get better with no treatment. Anyway, like a week and a half later, the office calls and says the lab said I do have an infection and they called in an antibiotic not recommended for kidney infections. Long story short, like 2 months later I’m admitted for a week with my 5th bought of sepsis! I live in MA thank god or I’d really just be dead.

[@sinny5404]

@@abbienormals1669 The heck crack-joint kinda clinic did you go to? I used to frequently get UTIs, the test is done right there and then if you have a UTI. Hell, I've even gone to ER before for a kidney infection caused by UTI. Took 5 mins for them to go "yep UTI and kidney infection". It's as quick and basically the same as getting a pregnancy test o.o Also, the popcorn smell. Automatically know it's UTI. Even if there's no pain. Once you know that smell, you can literally walk in the bathroom after someone else with a UTI and *smell* it. The feeling of going burns, the uh, liquid feels thicker in a way? It's weird to describe. Like the feeling that you KNOW you are holding in a silent but deadly, but liquid form. Going pee a LOT. Even if it's drops or basically nothing at all, your bladder just keeps trying its hardest to get OUT what's in there. To the point you just sit there, on the toilet, for quite a while, knowing if you get up you'll feel like you need to go all over again. Let's just say drinking nothing but soda for 3 years, taught me what a UTI is at least 10 times over. After you get it the like 3rd ish time it actually doesn't even hurt anymore and most symptoms don't even pop up anymore. But the smell. The smell is always there Also, cranberry juice doesn't help. At all. Don't know who came up with that but it doesn't help

[@LilahDandelion]

Haha NO! If you are subscribing antbiotics left and right without knowing what type of bacteria the patient have you end up with antiobiotic resistent bacteria. So in the future you won't have anything that cures your infection or anybody else who gets that infection. Im pretty sure you don't want that. So let your doctor take whatever test he wants. And follow the instructions on your medicine religiously. Please. And that your test came back negative doesnt that you don't have an UTI it means it wasn't that bacteria he was testning for, so then he know what other bacteria it was and could give you medicine suited for that.

[@grannyjann]

One of my OB/GYNs used to put comic strips on his ceiling for his patients to read while laying on the exam table. It really helped to ease the nerves.

[@iniya1989]

As someone who is watching from India it is so new to me to see doctors tell their patients what is happening to them and tell them what pills they required to take. In the part of India where I am from the doctors just ask you questions and diagnose you and give you the prescription( obviously in a handwriting that we don't understand😂). Even when we do ask questions not all but some get mad at us.

[@heatherrichins8082]

They are trying to turn the baby using a rebozo. It is a traditional method of repositioning the baby, I think from Mexico/Central America indigeneous culture. I have no idea how effective it is.

[@michaelgoldstein8516]

Love it. Currently in the US military health system where we have essentially socialized medicine. When I get out, my plan is to move to NZ to practice.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Wait! We need you here in the US! We have so many people who need healthcare, and doctors are getting scarce for us! Granted, one of the largest needs is mental health services, but I wish the AMA -the most powerful lobbying PAC-could do something to help push back the cost for those people who need the wellness services, including dental, hearing, and visual. I have wondered why the AMA hasn't gotten into the medical cost fight. We lost Mama Doctor Jones. Only a certain number of medical students are accepted each year, and many are bailing on us.

[@kathydurow6814]

Profits/greed? Restrict supply = higher prices, since US health system is pretty bad it's unlikely demand will drop unless a significant proportion of the population disappears.

[@michaelgoldstein8516]

@@ginnyjollykidd yeah I mean to be honest, part of me wants to stay and fight the horrific rolling back of women’s healthcare rights in this country. And part of me wants to flee so I can practice in a civilized country that sees women as people.

[@Gingerrrrsnapps]

After being in the military it’s one of the reasons why I’m so against socialized healthcare lol

[@kathydurow6814]

@Traci Judy - Robinson Have you been a large consumer of US civilian healthcare yet? Figured out what proportion of your remuneration goes to health insurance? Not wishing it on you, but if you get/have a chronic illness, how will that affect you financially? If you can't work? A male spouse abandons you? (6 x more likely than you abandoning him in similar circumstances, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, 2009) Places with socialised healthcare aren't perfect, you deal with waiting lists & sometimes inadequate funding, but they're less likely to send you broke or refuse treatment under orders from an insurance company, or for moral/religious reasons when it's otherwise legal, or simply because you don't have insurance or someone to guarantee payment etc.

[@jenniferditty2904]

OMG, PREACH! I have been so frustrated with our broken system in the US. When you actually start to need that insurance (ie get chronically ill) you lose your job and your insurance. COBRA payments are extortional and my state is an "at will" employer. They can terminate you with no reason and do not have to give you, or even have, a reason for doing so. Insurance is one of the biggest scams in our society.

[@torarufo]

When my midwife first checked the position of my baby she said that the baby had her head down but facing forward, which is a bit uncommon. She actually said that in labor the midwife at the hospital might try to put a sheet on my back pelvis and shake to try and turn the baby around. Note that this was just turning the baby to come with her face down, not turning the whole body around from a seated to a head-down position. Luckily she turned on her own :)

[@dbuzzard8220]

I had to explain to my younger sister, who already has 2 kids, that the pullout method is not a guarantee lol

[@iyaayas]

I recommend that in combination with keeping track of ovulation IF the couple isn't willing to use other birth control methods.

[@ameefoster7203]

My second was head down then moved to transverse. My doc had me do some exercises where I was on my hands and knees (don’t remember exactly, he’ll be 24 in 5 weeks). It worked! I remember when he turned again. Ouch.

[@ameefoster7203]

Pull out method=first child. 🤣🤣🤣

[@williepearl278]

Having a little sign that says scoot down a little more on your exam room ceiling is a much better idea than the George Clooney poster my first obgyn had on their exam room ceiling.

[@shioramenrabbit]

I have a friend. Her and her husband had exclusively (pre and post marriage) used the pull out method. They successfully avoided pregnancy for many years, and then the *first* time they didn't pull out because they were actually trying, she got pregnant. 2nd time around, they did the same thing, just didn't pull out, and she was freaking out, going to herbalists etc because she wasn't getting pregnant - at 8 months in. I asked why she was so worried and that, there up above, was her story about why she thought her hormones were "out of whack" and messing with her fertility after trying for less than a year. I was kind of offended on behalf of stats everywhere is all I'm saying.

[@chlorophyllheart]

I've been with my partner for 8 years and he successfully uses the pull out method. He has amazing control. Your friend's husband must have amazing control as well. I know for most people it's just to difficult to master that skill, which is understandable.

[@shioramenrabbit]

@@chlorophyllheart That's definitely not the takeaway here but hey, I'm glad that the stats have been rolling in your guys favor!

[@anon0124]

MDJ advocating for healthcare equality! 😁

[@KC__1997]

Exactly why we love her so much ❤

[@CassJB]

I think it makes a lot of sense to contact another medical professional that you trust to look for further insight or support. It shows professionalism, that you are willing to learn and that you want to make sure that you are offering the best care for your patients. All things I'd love to see in my doctor.

[@americansuisse08]

I'm with you on this. My background is in education, and I definitely see this in the education field. I see it as a healthy thing to do.

[@athenam7570]

I have never seen an episode about a ruptured corpus luteal cyst and I think that it would be a great and informative video. I was 22 when it happened and a doctor from another area I lived at the time refused to allow me to return back home for a checkup with my gyno (I needed a signed document to leave my job for a few days) because ‘it is something that can happen to all women’ and somehow I ended up bleeding internally for 3 weeks and almost dying from septicemia. Thankfully I was able to return in time for me to get an immediate surgery but I really do believe that it would make a great video since not that many people know about this and neither did I.

[@AngelicFlash]

The second one, I could read that shorthand (and gleefully went OH I KNOW WHAT THAT IS before Dr. Jones looked it up), but I'm Med/Surg. Also: that's not a surprising PMH for a patient of that demographic. 🤣 This is admittedly why shorthand can be frustrating though. I can recognise MOST of what a doctor puts into a note, but there's a few abbreviations that none of us on the floor can recognise.

[@kiarimarie]

I was struggling so badly with my chronic illness, I burned up my STD and got "personal leave" which left me 3 months to "figure something out". I ended up just marrying my partner (3 years together, 1 year living together, so not too ridiculous). I love him, I planned to marry him eventually anyway, but I hate that I *needed* to in order to not lose access to health insurance.

[@d-meth]

Why would you lose health insurance you already had due to your marriage status?

[@lilymorgan9787]

@@d-meth they wouldn't, they were not yet married and were going to lose their job and therefore insurance due to being unable to work. because of this, they had to marry their partner to continue to have health insurance.

[@d-meth]

@@lilymorgan9787 so they married in order for one to get the others health insurance not to prevent losing their own. That makes sense if the other person has great benefits (their employer pays for spouse as well), otherwise you may just as well get your own from the city. People who don't work can also get medicaid for free.

[@kiarimarie]

@@d-meth I married him to get onto his health insurance provided by his job, as I could not afford to pay the entire premium of the insurance I had through my work.

[@d-meth]

@@kiarimarie it sucks that some people get great benefits at work and others get none, my husband's work doesn't pay for spouse and the insurance they offer totally sucks. My city wants $1000/month/person for the insurance I could actually afford to use (no deductible*) and I can't afford that. Of course if we quit working we'd get healthcare for free in the form of medicaid. US heatthcare system is a joke. *the ~$600 insurance that they have comes with an $8000 deductible and higher premiums which means it's unusable

[@dearlyintrovert670]

I’m asexual and have never had a pap smear, but the thought of it ABSOLUTELY terrifies me. ☹️ I’m honestly hoping that I never have to since I have no plans of being sexually active, ever. Ever ever ever

[@patsyhughes7130]

Oh pal you still need a pap smear! They use it to check for cervical cancer as well. As a fellow asexual it is terrifying at first but for me it's really only a tad uncomfortable for like a minute or too. I'm 30 and have had like 4 now

[@Ikajo]

Well, even without being sexually active, you can still contract herpes on your genitals if you are unlucky. Compared to getting an IUD, I imagine a pap smear to be fairly painless. I'm using hormonal birth control to handle a medical condition. Getting an IUD hurts. A _lot_

[@mikakestudios5891]

Also asexual. And yeah, it's easy to psych yourself out about papsmears. You do need one even if you never plan to be active. Talk to your doctor, a good one will walk you through every part of the process.

[@meatball349]

im asexual and you still need one! i got mine last year

[@B.H.56]

It's not that bad. I'd rather have a pap smear than go to the dentist.

[@monicasosniecki9857]

The woman with the breech baby is trying the rebozo technique which is a South American old practice. I’m not in the medical field but I had a breech baby. I tried everything and nothing worked. But the rebozo does work sometimes. But rebozo is great for many things and is used a lot during pregnancy for pain relief and some midwife’s in Denmark also uses it during labor.

[@mylasimons7306]

That move is called shaking apples! It's an old midwife trick that Spinning Babies teaches (I've only seen it used in labor) to encourage baby to move to an OA position. It's actually really successful!