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Sagey, your posts always make me laugh. Thanks! And yes I'm with you. I feel like a waste of their time. A pat on the hand and they send me on my way so they can get to the important people!

You got a pat on the hand?! I know you meant it figuratively, but my doc's nurse once patted me on my (extra big) ass after weighing me and says' " You don't look like you weigh that much!" What kind of under-handed compliment was that?! I need to lose weight and I need them to tell me that!!!
(not really...)

i went to the gyno today and was so upset when i came out. i went in for my well women check up and had all these questions. Q: I am angry all the time. A: yes Q: I can fall asleep at a drop of a dime right now. A: like you felt when you had your bad pms? Q:Can I get my IUD out? A: No not till you have gone without your per. for a year. Q: Sex drive A:Hormones but not yet. Door shut Door opened A: But don't get your hopes up sometimes that doesn't even work. Mammagram in Nov. Bye.
So that was my lovely day day with the gyno.

truitalia, you have got to find a good gyno. That one sounds unacceptable.

SS

Hey! That sounds like my doc! I leave with more questions then I had when I went in. And LadyKate, at least you got a pat on the butt, do you know how long it has been since anyone has even looked at my rear? I would be ok even if it was the nurse! LOL!

Speaking of butt patting. Awhile back I was shopping with hubby. I have a "thing" about grabbing his rear. Well, as I was floatin' down the aisles , I grabbed the butt of someone I "thought" was hubby. Wasn't. He turned around and smiled. I died. I hurried up to my "real" hubby and said, "Let's go!". He laughed so hard, I nearly died of sheer embarassment!

Good one, Sagey!!
But getting back to the topic at hand:
I don't think that it's so much that they put us on the "doesn't matter anymore" category as much as maybe they know that we're already going through enough stress without dumping a "you need to lose weight NOW" thing on us.
That reminds me of a joke that Mammy told me when I first came on this site a year ago:
A 79 yr-old woman was at her gyno getting her yearly exam. At one point, the doc says "Tell me, Ms. Smith, are you and your husband sexually active?" The woman says "I'm not sure. Let me go ask" and she climbs off the table and heads for the door. The doc says "No, no, wait, let me put it another way...do you and your husband have intercourse?" The woman says "Just a minute. I'll ask" and she opens the door, leans out and yells into the waiting room "HENRY! DO WE HAVE INTERCOURSE?" Her husband looks up from his magazine, heaves a big sigh and says "Jeannie, how many times do I have to tell you? We have BLUE CROSS!!"
I've gotten a lot of mileage with that one!
Keep laughing, ladies!

That's great I will have to pass that on MKal!

I'm with ya on that. I see a female gynie and I was telling her about the weight gain all around the middle and she said oh, that's normal, something about estrogen and fat. She is older than me and stick thin so I said what happend to you then, she laughed said she had lost 30 lbs and works out 5 days a week on an eliptical machine. Whatever!!!!!!!! Your posts are humerous.