A review of Capital Women’s Care
I’ve always been a pick-you- gyno –out-of the-yellow-pages kind of girl, since all I needed was the birthcontrol prescription, and the gyno was the gatekeeper of the goods. At my University Health Center, the kind nurse- practitioners understood this truth and happily forked over the birthcontrol prescriptions and answered any questions I had.
After, I graduated and moved to DC, it was time to go to a grown-up gyno, and I simply called a few random ones and picked the one that had appointments available. Low and behold, I stumbled on Doctor Constance Bohon, who decided to discuss my fertility and the way its being destroyed by my fat, issues I did not ask anything about. When she brought up her “concerns” I told he that I appreciate the information; however, I was comfortable with my body. The Good Doctor, actually went to tell me that, it is a major problem that when I look in the mirror, I think ‘this is me” and I am ok with it. She knows some older women who are like that, but me at me young age, I can still change, thus I should not accept my body.
In the process of my short visit she also managed to mention that she has “friends” who do not accept pregnant patients who smoke tobacco… I am surprised the doctor accepts patients who are fat, but then, I guess it’s an economic necessity.
I also did a bit research to see what everyone else thought about Bohon, and following bit of medical wisdom was attributed to her by the Washington Post:
“In pregnancy, the uterus weighs a lot more, and jogging puts extra strain on the ligaments around it. So that can start to drag the uterus down”
The general guidelines of this topic seem to be, if you used to run, nothing wrong with continuing to run during pregnancy. Don’t believe me, give it a google. And, the uterus will just have to learn to catch up!
Thank you Doctor Bohon for your good advice.
As annoyed as I was at the time, I did not bother to write this post, I just went on with my life, until today, when I needed Capital Women’s Care (a practice of many gynos, one of whom is Bohon) to call in my birthcontrol prescription to a pharmacy in New York City, which they finally agreed to do, after I lost it and screamed at them in front of my entire office.
Thank Capital Women’s Care for the excellent care you provided today.
At the end of all that, I was not able to pick up my prescription after all, because the medical insurance will not cover it until tomorrow!
And what is the point of this rant?
We need some way of knowing which doctors are going to judge us, and which doctors will treat us? If only there was some kind of forum where we could trash gynos we hate and celebrate gynos well love… is there such a thing already, and I just don’t know about it?
funny how she’ll write you a rx for birth control which will majorly shut down your fertility but has an issue with your weight which has a much smaller impact on fertility.
when extreme, both being underweight and overweight can cause infertility, but looking at the wide variety of body shapes around it seems fat as well as thin people are managing to reproduce just fine.