Dr. Laval delivered my son and she is the reason he is here and healthy! She diagnosed me with pre-eclampsia and sent me to the hospital ASAP! Once there, she induced labor, was curteous and answered all my questions, and when the time came to make a decision for an emergency cesarian, she didn’t hesitate because my son’s life was in jeopardy. I have nothing negative to say about Sharon!

I’ve never written a review on here before but I had to after how disappointed my experience with Dr. Laval has been.

My period became extremely erratic and my family doctor sent me for a couple ultrasounds which found some cysts on both ovaries. I was on the waitlist for an MRI and referred to Dr. Laval by my family doctor for specialized treatment.

My first appointment with Dr. Laval was through virtual care (she showed up late), during which she told me not to bother going for an MRI because all women have cysts. She prescribed me oral birth control and the meeting was over in less than 10 minutes. I was left feeling unsettled as this is my first time having cysts or anything unusual with my period in 20+ years.

After the first appointment, I checked reviews on here, and while I did find her to be brisk I didn’t think my experience was as bad as some of the horror stories on here. I told my family doctor about the experience and she told me to get the MRI and she’d send Dr. Laval the results.

MRI was a few weeks later. It went fine and my family doctor called me after she got the results. MRI found the cysts to be in line with endometriosis. Family doctor asked if Dr. Laval had phoned me to follow up yet and I said no. Family doctor confirmed she had a copy of the results and seemed baffled as to why a gynecologist wouldn’t follow up with a patient about this.

Time goes by and we hit my first scheduled check-in with Dr. Laval to see how the birth control is working. I was on a 90 day pack of Indayo, meaning I only had a period every 3 months. Everything with the period was normal at this point, but nowhere in the 7 minute appointment did she talk about the MRI results and a diagnosis of endometriosis.

I stay on the pill for two, 90 day periods but find that towards the end of each pack I start getting breakthrough bleeding for days at a time in quantities more than just spotting. I tell this to Dr. Laval at the second scheduled check in, at which point she switches me without choice to Brevicon. The appointment lasted under 10 minutes again, with no chance for questions.

I start on the Brevicon and immediately don’t feel well. All oral birth control makes me somewhat nauseous, but Brevicon has been the worst by far. When I start a new pack, I feel nauseous all day and usually vomit in the morning. It mostly goes away during the first week, but when I get hungry the nausea comes back, meaning I have to eat right before bed or risk waking up in the night to vomit. I try calling Apple Tree Medical Center to schedule an appointment with her to discuss switching medication. After spending 10-15 minutes making multiple attempts to navigate their phone system, I’m told I can’t contact Dr. Laval because I already have an appointment with her in a few months (to follow up with how I’m doing on Brevicon). It’s at this point I ask my family doctor for a referral to a new gynecologist.

Unfortunately, the wait time is long, but I continue to take the Brevicon and do my follow-up appointment with Dr. Laval. I’m notified by text that Dr. Laval currently has 3 appointments ahead of mine. It takes her 15 minutes to join the call (the math works out to her spending less than 5 minutes with each patient). I report feeling extremely nauseous on Brevicon. She tells me to take Gravel and stay on Brevicon. The call lasted approximately 3 minutes.

I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, but my experience joins the list of bad experiences. She was late to every call we had and rushed through them. Going through Apple Tree Medical Center is the only way to contact her and they are extremely difficult to deal with. Being forced on a birth control which makes me nauseous is impacting my day-to-day life and she has yet to acknowledge me having endometriosis more than a year after my MRI.