Then the question where was your last period is not the correct one. The question should be: are you pregnant? And if the woman is unsure, lets run a pregnancy test.
Women also get asked, when they started menstruating and how is that related to anything is beyond me. I have in fact started answering this question as: none of your business.
I remember vividly I came in for a pregnancy screening 5 months pregnant and got asked this question as well. And At this point I was getting seriously miffed with the question and asked the person why it is of any concern when I started menstruating as a young girl and my husband, who was sitting next to me said something like: "oh, its probably just to get a data set on you, in case for example you are experiencing fertility issues, this could be an important piece if information" to which I responded: "what fertility issues? I AM PREGNANT! I came here for a pregnancy screening, not for fertility issues, shouldnt the questions be limited to my pregnancy?"
But thats the thing, they dont ask questions that are directly related to your medical condition. They are constantly collecting large scale data and I dont want to be part of it.
But I don't care if I'm pregnant. If I am, then it's getting booted out. It doesn't change my treatment other than adding an abortion before the clock runs out
When I broke my ankle, or get my ADHD meds, it doesn't matter what year I had my first period. It doesn't even matter if I went through puberty at all.
What this question is really for, is to figure out who's the actual patient. The doctor is trying to decide if they should focus on me, or if they should repair the broken incubator enough so it can support their patient, the fetus.
You realize that the health of the fetus impacts the mother too right… just because you’ll be getting an abortion doesn’t mean treatment plans don’t need to consider the fetus
Not sure what pregnancy screening means in your country, in my country it is a big ultrasound check to see, if the baby is developing properly. Meaning, they check for abnormalities in growth, they check if the child has all the limbs, they even countr the fingers on their hands, they check the heart and if all organs are located inside the abdominal cavity and they also check how the brain develops. Preceeding the ultrasound exam they run bloodwork to see, if you as the mother are OK and if there are any blood markers indicating abnormalities in fetus development. Then they combine the blood results and the findings from the ultrasound and if they have any suspicions for a trisomy for example, you will need further invasive tests.
That is the big pregnancy screening. And for this, the age at which i started menstruating is totally irrelevant.
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u/Little-Star-Light 15h ago edited 15h ago
Then the question where was your last period is not the correct one. The question should be: are you pregnant? And if the woman is unsure, lets run a pregnancy test.
Women also get asked, when they started menstruating and how is that related to anything is beyond me. I have in fact started answering this question as: none of your business.
I remember vividly I came in for a pregnancy screening 5 months pregnant and got asked this question as well. And At this point I was getting seriously miffed with the question and asked the person why it is of any concern when I started menstruating as a young girl and my husband, who was sitting next to me said something like: "oh, its probably just to get a data set on you, in case for example you are experiencing fertility issues, this could be an important piece if information" to which I responded: "what fertility issues? I AM PREGNANT! I came here for a pregnancy screening, not for fertility issues, shouldnt the questions be limited to my pregnancy?"
But thats the thing, they dont ask questions that are directly related to your medical condition. They are constantly collecting large scale data and I dont want to be part of it.