It had been over 3 years for me since I had gone to our family doctor -- yes, very healthy -- knock on wood!

A few weeks ago, I called to have my files moved to my doctor's new office and they told me that my files had been sent to storage and would be SHREDDED if I didn't go to the doctor in the next 4 years (it is entirely possible that I would NOT!!!) or request a copy of them!

Needless to say, I think that secretary got into trouble once I spoke with several others in medical records who said that the files are put on microfiche... blah blah.

Anyway, I'm going to the doctor today just to get reinstated but with nothing major wrong with me.

I always have my annual exam with my OB/GYN coming up in August and just had my annual mammogram... I got very burned out on visiting doctors during my pregnancies!


When was the last time that you went to your family doctor?

I saw my doctor last August for my regularly scheduled check-up......GYN was three months ago.

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Last December for a UTI

I don't go to the doctor very often either.

I went in April after our cruise. I came back with one heck of a sunburn (acutally 2nd and borderline 3rd degree burns all over the front of my body). I wouldn't usually go to a dr for them, but this time it just hurt SOOOOO bad and my body was swelling all over. I'm glad I went to the dr because she gave me a cortisone shot and some painkillers. That truly hurt worse than any childbirth exp I had.

Love my doc.. I have to go every 3 to six months anyway to get refills.

I should probably start going at least once a year for a 'check-up'. Sometimes it seems like I take better care of my cars then I do of myself.

Oh Lord-- I wish I got a frequent flier discount for as often as I go! LOL

I see my regular doctor every 6 months for a thyroid check. I see my oncologist every 3 months for bloodwork/pelvic exam. (Lucky me!)

Holly

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I finally went for my 'yearly' exam back in March after not having one for 5 or 6 years. I went to a local clinic for a less expensive visit. I actually don't have a regular doctor. DH has gone to the same DR for a number of years but I think the DR is a quack. Whatever. Girls have a pediatrician but also go to the same clinic I did. LOVE LOVE LOVE the NP there.

Only when absolutely necessary. I even stopped taking Rx allergy and reflux meds. Sorry but I don't have over an hour to wait at appts plus 30 min. each way driving.

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Family doctor? What's that I was in and out of the OB/GYN almost all year last year, due to pregnancy, I just go to the Doctors Care place when I'm sick. I even took my daughter there when she had this disgusting rash/infection thing on her face and the pediatrician's office didn't even have an empty seat.. got seen at Doctors Care in 10-20 mins!

It's been about 1 1/2 years since I've been to the family Dr. In fact, in the last 6 years, I've gone to the Family Dr. twice -- once I was sick and the other time I hurt my ankle. I guess I'm just really healthy. I do go to the OB/GYN annually and the Asthma & Allergy specialist twice a year to renew my perscriptions.

My kids only went to the Ped. once this year, and that was for their annual 'well visit' -- they are very healthy too.

Sarah......mom to Jason & Devin

I see an ARNP instead of a doctor. Last time I saw her was last week for a sinus infection.

DH and I go to the same ARNP. We both like her. Usually we are in within 5 minutes of our scheduled appointment time. Plus, she can do most everything a doctor does, including write prescriptions.

I also go to her for my annual physical. I more comfortable with a female doctor for that sort of thing.

My son goes to the doctor approx. every 3 months, as he has Autism and needs the regular medication checks.

Just went about three weeks ago because I had strep throat. And I'm 50! lol I always go for my yearly and my mammo.

I spend so much time taking my children to the dr that I don't go myself. I hate going, even when I am sick. I am always told it is viral and that I should feel better in so many days or weeks. So I just don't go. Plus, I have 3 kids that seem to go to various dr all the time. Just last friday I spent over 2 hours at an appointment for my son, he had his flat warts removed. I was told they were molluscums by another dr and to leave them alone.

seems like I am there all the time...asthma, allergies, etc and I get bronchitis about 4 times a year...I changed to a new dr. about 6 months ago because she was closer but I am going to move back to my old ARNP...the doctor is not nearly as thorough as my ARNP...just moved son to a new ped. and DD NEVER gets sick(been on antibiotics 2x in 10 yrs)

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I'm only there a couple of times a year and only then so she will refill my meds. That's not counting migraine shots, I just call and Dh takes me they shoot me and I'm right back outta there. I haven't had a pap smear in almost 13 years. I really need to have one but I so don't want to. (especially considering all the female problems I have been having.)

The boys well I've asked to just rent a room and move in. They constantly have something wrong. They are rough and tumble boys. One of them ends up breaking something at least once a year. DS also has asthma so we are there alot for that.

Dh, is a pain to get to go but seems to be getting better about it.

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Its been about 12 years for me.It takes something drastic for me to go to the doctors.My back went out and I could not walk or barely move.I got attacks of it now and then for about 8 years but now I'm OK. It seems to have finally stopped happening.I don't know what triggers it but glad its gone.

I never go to the doctor, because I am so healthy (probably just jinxed the heck out of myself.) I do go annually for pelvic and for Mammos. I go to the Gyn for that. Take the kids annually just for well checks as they are both very healthy. But, I am not unlike most Moms I know in this respect.....we take so much better care of our kids than we do ourselves. It is stupid, because if we get sick (I mean really sick, not the sick but not sick enough that DH and kiddoes recognize that we need some TLC ourselves) who would take care of everybody else? I am the same with the DDS also, though. I take my kids every 6 months for their check up (have since they were 3----they have absolutely no fear of the DDS and enjoy going), and make appts for DH every six months too. But, it has been ......I am so embarrased to say....over 10 years since I have been myself. Of course, I have awful teeth and never saw a dentist myself until I was 14 years old for the first time. At that time my mother took me to a dental college for work.......this being a dental college, and considering the fact that I was 14 and had never seen a dentist, I had a ton of work and cavities to have taken care of. Well, dental students don't have much of a chairside manner, nor the gentle touch they might eventually have. The visit was very very painful......and the end result was that within 6 months, because of the shoddy work every filling had fallen out........Can you blame me for not loving the dentist?

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I normally go at least once a year (sometimes twice) but since I have been pregnant, my ob gave up on me about this mysterious cough I get at night (non-productive, dry, and persistant) anyway, he "pawned" me off on my family doc and my family doc threw his hands up saying why do you always make me earn that copay? He said he never has to work as hard for his other clients and he does with me. I guess being pregnant makes him open a different book lol!! He's always funny and makes me laugh and he does know what he's doing and has never done anything just to see if it works. He is always certain what will work and what will not. I love my family doc!! He ROCKS!

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They have set up a clinic here so that all teachers and their families w/ school insurance can be seen for free- I have been 3-4 times since they opened, as has dh.

I have also been to Vanderbilt to see a specialist 3-4 times this year, which is expensive and not fun lol.