My question involves malpractice in the state of: Texas. Last year I requested an IUD to control menstrual bleeding. I received it from my Ob/gyn but it fell out from extremely heavy bleeding. I went to my ob/gyn for a follow up and it was determined that I had multiple fibroid tumors on my uterus that caused the heavy bleeding that pushed the IUD out. The doctor failed to conduct an exam to ensure that the IUD was right for me. He just inserted it. Anyway. It was so much blood that I didn't feel the IUD come out in the toilet. From February to June 30th, which was the day of my surgery, I bled profusely. I called my ob/gyn begging and pleading for help, and I told his staff how weak and sick I was from the bleeding. I asked to get prescribed some type of iron pills but they told me that my doctor would have to test my iron level in order to do that, but my iron level was NEVER tested the times I visites him. I was losing weight because I wasn't eating, and not to mention the constant heavy bleeding.
I was bleeding through pads every 15-30 minutes, and going broke buying pads. I would constantly call the doctors office asking for help and he would never return my calls with a solution. I was late for work because I would get dizzy and would be out of breath just from getting out of the shower, so it was difficult to put on a shirt, being that I was so weak.
I lost so much blood to where one of the fibroids pushed itself into my cervix, so basically my cervix was as open, and I was leaking loads of cervical mucus. I was finally scheduled for my pre-op to remove my fibroids and after I left there, the staff from the ob/gyn office called and said that the hospital needs me to return to the emergency room because I needed to do an emergency blood transfusion. There was no way in hell I was going to be able to get the surgery if I didn't do that. So my ob/gym had the nerve to call me and offer options to stop my bleeding, such as the transfusion or some injection, in which I feel like he should've been offered the injection. I told him I wanted to transfusion ! During this phone call, I was carrying groceries up a set of stairs and almost passed out due to not having strength. Long shot short, my hemoglobin level was a 3.4 . The nurses were so shocked and asked me how in the heck was I still alive and breathing! Is this considered medical malpractice?
Oh and by the way, I had endometriosis that had to be "scraped" off my uterus.
I was bleeding through pads every 15-30 minutes, and going broke buying pads. I would constantly call the doctors office asking for help and he would never return my calls with a solution. I was late for work because I would get dizzy and would be out of breath just from getting out of the shower, so it was difficult to put on a shirt, being that I was so weak.
I lost so much blood to where one of the fibroids pushed itself into my cervix, so basically my cervix was as open, and I was leaking loads of cervical mucus. I was finally scheduled for my pre-op to remove my fibroids and after I left there, the staff from the ob/gyn office called and said that the hospital needs me to return to the emergency room because I needed to do an emergency blood transfusion. There was no way in hell I was going to be able to get the surgery if I didn't do that. So my ob/gym had the nerve to call me and offer options to stop my bleeding, such as the transfusion or some injection, in which I feel like he should've been offered the injection. I told him I wanted to transfusion ! During this phone call, I was carrying groceries up a set of stairs and almost passed out due to not having strength. Long shot short, my hemoglobin level was a 3.4 . The nurses were so shocked and asked me how in the heck was I still alive and breathing! Is this considered medical malpractice?
Oh and by the way, I had endometriosis that had to be "scraped" off my uterus.
Medical Malpractice
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