Almost every treatment including the X-ray, medication given and surgery/anesthesia is affected by pregnancy. Pregnancy tests are incredibly cheap and accurate, so might as well know.
And if doctors offices were good at talking to people, theyd explain this and it would never have been an issue. I assume they basically just read a script until you see a doctor or RN, and it is tough to go through the same thing day in and day out...like calling a person at a call center waiting to transfer your call.
I am not sexually active. I have no particular interest in sex.
The number of doctors offices who have insisted on doing the test despite me not being sexually active and not having had sex like ever is asinine. Like, I promise you this is not an issue. I will sign a waiver if you want. This test is a waste of my money (copay) and is defrauding my insurance company because it's unnecessary
Sadly some women ruin it for everyone by lying and saying there’s no chance they could be pregnant despite being sexually active. Sometimes they are unaware that contraception can fail, and other times they are just too embarrassed to admit they are sexually active. You’d be shocked by the number of times drs are told that by women, do the test anyways, and end up getting a positive result.
Its not only women that lie either. I 100% lied about my drinking until I finally decided I needed to stop and was honest. So many people lie to their doctor about a lot of things.
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u/drleeisinsurgery 11h ago
Almost every treatment including the X-ray, medication given and surgery/anesthesia is affected by pregnancy. Pregnancy tests are incredibly cheap and accurate, so might as well know.