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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: Hurtfulsplash on August 03, 2010, 08:16:41 AM

Title: Wait time for Endo?
Post by: Hurtfulsplash on August 03, 2010, 08:16:41 AM
So I made an appointment today with an Endo to start HRT, I'm very excited to actually have a date set up, but is it normal that the wait is 6 months?
Title: Re: Wait time for Endo?
Post by: lilacwoman on August 03, 2010, 10:44:26 AM
Quote from: Hurtfulsplash on August 03, 2010, 08:16:41 AM
So I made an appointment today with an Endo to start HRT, I'm very excited to actually have a date set up, but is it normal that the wait is 6 months?
we don't know where you are but it seems a long wait in any case.

Post Merge: August 03, 2010, 10:45:15 AM

Especially as the transitioner chooses the moment to transition - though lots of medcis think they hold the starting gun.
Title: Re: Wait time for Endo?
Post by: Hurtfulsplash on August 03, 2010, 12:37:32 PM
Unfortunately it was the first opening this doc had for new patients.
Title: Re: Wait time for Endo?
Post by: Jillary Woolen Xσx on August 03, 2010, 02:37:39 PM
My Endo Was The Same Way hurtfulsplash.

It kind of irritated me but there wasn't really much you can do...
even worse i had to reschedule my appointment because of insurance issues and
i had to wait another 6 months :/
I have no clue why it would have to wait that long especially because the appointments last no longer than a half hour :(
Title: Re: Wait time for Endo?
Post by: Colleen Ireland on August 03, 2010, 04:18:53 PM
I went to my doctor 2 weeks ago to ask for a referral to the GIC for assessment (CAMH), still no word of an appointment, and once I DO get an appointment, I'm expecting to wait months before the GIC visit.  Seems like a basic trans-fact of life... (sigh)
Title: Re: Wait time for Endo?
Post by: Hurtfulsplash on August 04, 2010, 03:21:58 AM
That sucks, I was expecting a couple months, not half a year. I wish I had made the call a lot sooner.
Title: Re: Wait time for Endo?
Post by: Nero on August 04, 2010, 04:35:59 AM
Seems rather long. Maybe your therapist can recommend someone else?
Title: Re: Wait time for Endo?
Post by: Hurtfulsplash on August 04, 2010, 11:32:55 AM
My therapist doesn't know anyone, I had to make hundreds of calls myself just to find this doc.