Today I was refused a hysterectomy and was told that even sterilisation might not be available but she turned to my partner and asked if he would consider getting the snip.
Obviously she hadn't listened to the previous family history of cervical cancer, my own health, issues in my past and heavy painful periods...
She's asked one of her co workers to see me for a second opinion and even a clinical physiatrist. I even said I give her access to my therapy I recently finished, especially as by this point I was getting rather emotional (Once a got out my very supportive partner held me as I cried, I was so hopeful going into that appointment just to leave wanting to lay in traffic)
EDIT : I am in the UK so it's mostly down to the NHS which makes things tricky. I also have a disability (invisible one) which she briefly mentioned basically that's bad and even more off the table. She was also more on about regretting the decision. Even though since I was a little girl I've known I don't want kids, I'm also below the age they usually would even consider sterilisation (35) I'm 28.
Everyone in my life I have spoken to is outraged at this and more so to the fact that turning to my partner and asking him to get the snip would not solve the heavy painful periods etc the reason I'm on birth control in the first place, because according to this doctor that's working fine enough so keep with it. I don't want to be on that for life I'd really rather have the option I was recommended by doctor and now refused by female gyno. It wasn't my doctor who put the referral in but someone covering my doctor, who backed me up when I went in for the original appointment to get this started and she recommended a hysterectomy however on the letter she sent off nowhere did It say that as the gyno said it would have been outright refused before I even got the hint of an appointment
I am now asking my doctor when I see her again if I can be checked for fibroids (due to thr heavy painful periods along with some other things she has kind of put down to my overall health in the past)