So, I went to my PCP, who is a woman but I can't tolerate her. Told her about the thrush for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago, followed by mastitis, followed by what I believe is now thrush in the ducts, explained all my symptoms, trips to the er, meds I'm on now for the mastitis, etc.
She gives me a new rx for Keflex. What the frick for I have no idea. The iv clindamycin as well as the oral clindamycin have cleared up the mastitis quite well. It's the THRUSH i'm battling you moron!
She the proceeds to give me what I believe is incorrect info regarding nursing/pumping/breastfeeding while having thrush. She tells me I may need to bottle feed her for a week. I freely admit I could be mistaken, but, everything I've read has said you don't give a baby pumped milk while dealing with this. She tells me to pump my left breast and nurse off my right breast and something else about all this but I forget. I then tell her that it is difficult under GOOD circumstances to get Lydia to take a bottle so I'm not quite sure how bottles will help b/c I am NOT responding well to my pump right now at all (VERY unusual for me. I can easily get 4-5oz and since I got thrush the first time I'm lucky to get 1.5-2 oz) and Lydia is much more efficient at getting the milk anyway. The UAV then tells me "You can try to hamstring me all you want. I'm just trying to help you get better." I. WAS/AM FURIOUS/ENRAGED/LIVID, etc. She then has the gall to explain bottle nipples to me like I'm a simpleton. She tells me there should be one drip a second and if she is having to work to get the milk then she is just going to get tired. She then tells me I might need a nipple with a larger hole. Way to sabatoge a breastfeeding relationship you ignorant UAV! Yeah, let me rush right out and get a nipple where the milk is just pouring out so that it is so much easier for her and then when she does need to nurse she won't want to work for it.
So, I get a prescription for antibiotics that I DON'T need, didn't ask for and have no plans on taking, NO diflucan and her pearl of wisdom for the awful pain- "Try tylenol."
I'm divorcing her!
She gives me a new rx for Keflex. What the frick for I have no idea. The iv clindamycin as well as the oral clindamycin have cleared up the mastitis quite well. It's the THRUSH i'm battling you moron!
She the proceeds to give me what I believe is incorrect info regarding nursing/pumping/breastfeeding while having thrush. She tells me I may need to bottle feed her for a week. I freely admit I could be mistaken, but, everything I've read has said you don't give a baby pumped milk while dealing with this. She tells me to pump my left breast and nurse off my right breast and something else about all this but I forget. I then tell her that it is difficult under GOOD circumstances to get Lydia to take a bottle so I'm not quite sure how bottles will help b/c I am NOT responding well to my pump right now at all (VERY unusual for me. I can easily get 4-5oz and since I got thrush the first time I'm lucky to get 1.5-2 oz) and Lydia is much more efficient at getting the milk anyway. The UAV then tells me "You can try to hamstring me all you want. I'm just trying to help you get better." I. WAS/AM FURIOUS/ENRAGED/LIVID, etc. She then has the gall to explain bottle nipples to me like I'm a simpleton. She tells me there should be one drip a second and if she is having to work to get the milk then she is just going to get tired. She then tells me I might need a nipple with a larger hole. Way to sabatoge a breastfeeding relationship you ignorant UAV! Yeah, let me rush right out and get a nipple where the milk is just pouring out so that it is so much easier for her and then when she does need to nurse she won't want to work for it.
So, I get a prescription for antibiotics that I DON'T need, didn't ask for and have no plans on taking, NO diflucan and her pearl of wisdom for the awful pain- "Try tylenol."
I'm divorcing her!
: and wanted to hospitalize DD for being underweight (we saw her less than 2 weeks before the specialist ped). And when DD was almost 12 months we took her to the after hours medical centre after a fall. We'd been waiting for 2 hours, DD had missed out on her sleep (as she fell just before it), she'd had a chock and was in pain, and was prodded by a stranger in a strange white room. So she signed for a breastfeed, and started tugging at my shirt. Dr(female) asked what was going on. DH said she was after a breastfeed. Dr asked, quickly, concerned, if DD ate solids, to which I replied, surprised: "Of course". Then the Dr told us that DD didn't "need" breastfeeding anymore, in a disapproving voice. Hm. Ministry of health changed their policy last May to breastfeeding one year and beyond, and DD wasn't 1 yet. 
Don't understand why the health professionals can't stick to their own policies.
