Vent. Waiting until November isn't healthy. I'd go back and talk to your GP. For me, my GP (internal medicine) handled it all. Maybe she shouldn't have, but I picked her out because she's sharp, does her research and is pretty conservative with treatments. My guess is that she'd have called in an endocrinologist if she had gotten in over her head.

Without going political, sometimes our health system really s*cks; other times, I am amazed. For example, a few months ago, at my physical, the GP found a lump in the breast that I hadn't. Talk about the perfect health care solution. Her PA set up a mammogram/ultrasound/biopsy for first thing the next day (apologizing that there wasn't anything for the same day). By the time I left the clinic I had the diagnosis (it was a cyst). Too bad all healthcare doesn't work that way.

Kick that GP of yours....you shouldn't be waiting until November (just my non-medical 2cents, depreciated for inflation it ain't worth much).