Getting a Referral to an Endocrinologist from Primary Care Doctor

[sneakersjay]

ACK.  I'm really not in the mood to come out to every last person on the planet at the moment but the endo requires a referral from a primary care doc, not a therapist.  How do you go about telling/convincing your primary care doc to give you the referral to the endo?  Do endos take referrals from therapists?  Everything's getting so complicated...

Jay

[Kate]

ACK.  I'm really not in the mood to come out to every last person on the planet at the moment but the endo requires a referral from a primary care doc, not a therapist.  How do you go about telling/convincing your primary care doc to give you the referral to the endo?  Do endos take referrals from therapists?  Everything's getting so complicated...

Every endo and doc is different. The endos my therapist wanted to send me to were OK with just a letter from her (my therapist). But every endo sets their own rules.

How do you convince your doc? Well, maybe take a letter from your therapist to your doctor which explains that you've been diagnosed with GID.. and just explain the endo situation. I'm not quite sure what sort of "referral" the endo is looking for though, since your doctor probably isn't qualified to diagnose GID? Does the endo want medical clearance on your overall health perhaps to begin HRT?

~Kate~

[sneakersjay]

I think it's just a paperwork thing, that the endo knows I have a valid reason to make an appt and am not self-diagnosing.  I didn't tell the receptionist what the appt was for.  I talked to the guy who referred me to this endo (he uses her) and he said that the primary care doc shouldn't have an issue, and I could get a letter from my therapist explaining my GID and there should be no issue with referral.

So...I have a primary care appt Thurs, I should officially have my T letter in a few weeks, and I feel like a kid who just got a present. 

Jay

P.S. Kate, how's your jewel today?  Feeling better, I hope.

[Kate]

So...I have a primary care appt Thurs, I should officially have my T letter in a few weeks, and I feel like a kid who just got a present. 

Yaaaaay Jay! That's so cool! So it is going to work out it seems?

P.S. Kate, how's your jewel today?  Feeling better, I hope.

Awl thanks, a little better, but it comes and goes. But I feel a TON better emotionally knowing it's not something serious. I can deal with pain, just not the depression of worrying is was from something BAD

~Kate~

[Laura91]

So...I have a primary care appt Thurs, I should officially have my T letter in a few weeks, and I feel like a kid who just got a present. 

Yaaaaay Jay! That's so cool! So it is going to work out it seems?

P.S. Kate, how's your jewel today?  Feeling better, I hope.

Awl thanks, a little better, but it comes and goes. But I feel a TON better emotionally knowing it's not something serious. I can deal with pain, just not the depression of worrying is was from something BAD

~Kate~

I am glad that you are feeling better (emotionally speaking), Kate.