My nurse sucks

[Anonymous]

Title says it all really...I've had to babysit her the past two weeks prior to my cycle starting and now I guess I've bothered her so much she no longer responds to my concerns. Which were all valid concerns such as... "your email says you ordered my meds a week ago but the pharmacy has no order" type thing. Multiple issues like that. I'm due to start stims this week and I'm just over dealing with her. Is it too late to find a different nurse at this point?

[Anonymous]

No. I strongly encourage it. I stayed with a horrible nurse through my cycle, and it added ridiculous amounts of stress. I've posted this before but when I called right around retrieval her voicemail told me she'd be gone for three weeks. Never said a word to me, no backup, no coverage, nothing.

[Anonymous]

Are you at SGF?

[Anonymous]

If she's no longer responding to your emails or voicemails then yes, you have a right to ask for a new nurse.

[Anonymous]

I think in some ways your nurse is as important as your doctor. I have had a horrible nurse and a wonderful one, both at different times through SG, and the amount of stress that the horrible nurse added definitely affected more than my mood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think in some ways your nurse is as important as your doctor. I have had a horrible nurse and a wonderful one, both at different times through SG, and the amount of stress that the horrible nurse added definitely affected more than my mood.

+1

[Anonymous]

Yes I'm at SGF. I'm not sure what happened because she was actually very good for my first cycle. I also had emailed my Dr about something protocol related and received no reply from him either, which surprised me because he's been great in person. I don't think my question(s) are so bad as to not warrant a reply at all... No question is a bad question, but apparently it is at SGF.

The problem for them is, I'm also in the healthcare field so I know better than to just blindly sit back and let someone else handle everything. Being on top of things really is the key to getting a good result. I think they just don't like that I'm attempting to be an active participant in my care. It's really irritating.

[Anonymous]

A word of advice, a very similar thing happened to me at SGF. I am a nurse and although infertility is not my specialty, it seemed to really put them off when I pressed with questions.
I ended up switching clinics and haven't looked back.
Best of luck to you.

[Anonymous]

That's interesting. With me, my RE is better at getting back to me than my nurse. If I email the RE, the nurse all of a sudden will call and/or the RE will promptly answer my question. I think my nurse doesn't like me.

[Anonymous]

Get a new nurse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a new nurse.

Or at the very least CC the RE or someone else on any email you send her.

[Anonymous]

Random question - are you doing IUI or IVF? I don't know if it was a coincidence, but I found that with IUI (i.e., spending far less money) we didn't get nearly the attention we did with IVF. Again, might just be coincidence, but who knows...

[Anonymous]

agree with 12:09. It's pretty amazing how different you get treated.

[Anonymous]

Also at SG and wondering -- do your REs give you their email addresses? I didn't know it was ever an option to email my RE directly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also at SG and wondering -- do your REs give you their email addresses? I didn't know it was ever an option to email my RE directly.

Not OP. I never got my RE's email address (tho I never asked either).