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pfunk
01-22-2004, 11:52 PM
For anyone here who has been raped, could you please tell me how you came to be able to deal with gynecological appointments? It seems to me that with each appointment my anxiety becomes worse and more debilitating, not better. I don't know why this is but I can't do anything to help myself with this at all. I mean it has been into the double digits in years since this event happened and I really think I am getting worse and not better. Is that even possible?

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bjinfp
01-23-2004, 05:00 PM
Call your nearest rape crisis center and explain the situation. Ask for a referral to a woman physician that deals with rape victims. When you call the doctor for an appointment, ask for an office visit first, where you just sit in the doctor's office with a desk and chairs, and talk with her about your feelings and problems with anxiety about the exam. Make sure she understands how you feel. Discuss together what can be done about how the exam is conducted to make you feel safe. Agree mutually that at any time during the exam if you are feeling bad or too scared to continue, that the exam will stop, either until you can continue or have it rescheduled. It would probably be best to take it slow, and talk with the doctor during the exam to let her know how you are doing. Also, having an understanding and sympathetic female nurse assisting can be very comforting. Good luck. Write back a post and let me know how it goes. You are not alone.

pfunk
01-24-2004, 01:01 AM
The problem I have found though with that is that when some gynecologists know that you have been raped they assume your symptoms to be psychosomatic and if you do have a true gynecological problem they don't do anything about it. I have only been to one doctor in my whole life who has been compassionate about this.





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