Why Do They Always Ask Me This Question At The Doctor's Office?

[Anonymous]

Do they ask at the psych's office to gauge your stress and mental health levels--no period from working out too much or eating improperly or throwing up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In addition to determining if you might be pregnant, it can be useful for medical practitioners to know where their female patient is in her monthly cycle. This can affect the way they interpret bloating, breast fullness, emotional state, etc.

My doc asked me that question and then smiled wryly and said, "It's always embarrassing to miss pregnancy as a cause of fatigue." I guess it had happened to her.

[Anonymous]

I remember people bitching about this question in college. Would people really rather they ignored the possibility?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the question annoying because a decent number of women still bleed when they're pregnant — asking when somebody's last period was does not rule out pregnancy.

Also, I'm a lesbian.

LOL, unless you are a lesbian without a uterus, why couldn't you be pregnant?

Well, presumably this person wouldn't accidentally be pregnant so there is no reason to ask when her last period was.

[Anonymous]

Or to see if you are menopausal...not necessarily pregnant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the question annoying because a decent number of women still bleed when they're pregnant — asking when somebody's last period was does not rule out pregnancy.

Also, I'm a lesbian.

LOL, unless you are a lesbian without a uterus, why couldn't you be pregnant?

Well, presumably this person wouldn't accidentally be pregnant so there is no reason to ask when her last period was.

And EVERY physician that a lesbian might see is aware of her sexual status? Hence the across the board question for every woman of child bearing age

[Anonymous]

Totally freaking hilarious that the lesbian said why ask this to a lesbian. I can't stop laughing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the question annoying because a decent number of women still bleed when they're pregnant — asking when somebody's last period was does not rule out pregnancy.

Also, I'm a lesbian.

LOL, unless you are a lesbian without a uterus, why couldn't you be pregnant?

Well, presumably this person wouldn't accidentally be pregnant so there is no reason to ask when her last period was.

Gold star!

Last time I got pregnant it cost me $15,000 and a team of doctors. It's really not a possibility for me to be pregnant and not know it.

[Anonymous]

Hate that question. I can never remember the date, and I have an atypical cycle anyway so the answer is irrelevant.

It's quite rare, but you could be pregnant AND think you're having a period.

Anyway, one of those medical things.

[Anonymous]

I get why they ask this, but sometimes it's pointless. I went in the other day to get my TB test. There is absolutely no way my TB test was a pregnancy symptom, neither the fact that I had one, or the fact that it was negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a hysterectomy, noted in the file, and still get this question.

That must get tedious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find the question annoying because a decent number of women still bleed when they're pregnant — asking when somebody's last period was does not rule out pregnancy.

Also, I'm a lesbian.

The bleeding in pregnancy does not frequently "look" like a period.

[Anonymous]

I'm 48 and they still ask me. In a couple of years I'm sure that I'll be asked that at a doctor's appt only to return home and find an AARP mag in my mailbox.

[Anonymous]

OP, you can get pregnant at 45. You can get pregnant through menopause. It's unlikely but it's possible. It takes one egg.

[Anonymous]

I stack my birth control, so when I tell then it's been 8 years, I get a really funny look.