I'm elderly?!?!?!?

[hbear]

I logged onto my OB's site to check my lab results, and it was posted with the phrase "elderly multigravida"

I'm 34!!!


I know, I'll be 35 when baby gets here, and I had resigned myself to accept "Advanced maternal age", but elderly? You've got to be kidding me!

[papie]

:::crying:::

I am 36!

:::shakes cane:::

[ringstrue]

lol I'm 34 too.

It's a medical term. Considering women can technically start reproducing as pre-teens we are certainly at the other end of the spectrum. It's a classification so they can develop your medical care appropriately.

There are a lot of terms in medicine that are also used in common terms (that sometimes shouldn't be). For instance, if a patient isn't eating, they will be described as having anorexia. The actual eating disorder we are familiar with is called "Anorexia nervosa".

[picksthemusic]

Yeah, medical terminology sucks donkey balls sometimes. I'm 34 too, and it kills me that if I want another baby after this one that I'll be AMA (advanced maternal age).

[D2M]

Another old fogie checking in. Get off my lawn, kids.

[melsamoony]

I hate the way they term these things, it is cruel.

[papie]

Feb 20, 2014 11:21:35 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

lol I'm 34 too.

It's a medical term. Considering women can technically start reproducing as pre-teens we are certainly at the other end of the spectrum. It's a classification so they can develop your medical care appropriately.

There are a lot of terms in medicine that are also used in common terms (that sometimes shouldn't be). For instance, if a patient isn't eating, they will be described as having anorexia. The actual eating disorder we are familiar with is called "Anorexia nervosa".

It's like a miscarriage being a spontaneous abortion.  I think it is an old term.  MIL says she remembers crying at the ER in the early 80s when some nurse came to ask for her yelling "It's for the abortion?". 

[bowies]

I might be willing to share my walker with you, but if you're in need of dentures, you're on your own.

[daisycat]

Yep. I got the elderly designation too.

Think we can start getting out senior discounts now?

[katinthehat]

Sorry I missed this post. I was at the Denny's Early Bird Special.

[centralsquare]

I'm elderly then, too. Ancient even, at 38.

How about this gem: my doctors site shows your weight and BMI at the top of every page. To PREGNANT WOMEN.

[mannah]

These posts have me laughing outloud--I totally agree! This medical language is BS and makes us sound defective. My personal favorites are "incompetent cervix" and "an unremarkable ultrasound exam".