Bledsoe Maya MD

My husband and I agree with every one of the negative reviews of Dr. Bledsoe. She is condescending and rude. When waiting for a ultrasound you wait a minimum of 30 minutes even if you are early. And when they make you get a ultrasound on every IUI is completely a waste of time and money. They will not give you a IUI unless you get a ultrasound everytime. All they care about is milking the desperate couples and making sure there % of fertility patients is high. We have left this office and are already happy with our new Doctor and staff. The front desk girls job is to constantly talk about «payment» they forget to tell you directions on what is going on. She has the bed side manners of a motorcycle mechanic. No offense to those hard working people. I’m in the process of reporting her and this office to the state medical board.

Still love Dr. Bledsoe. She stays up to date with my medical information and takes extensive notes on her computer. She’s friendly and warm, humble, kind, and extremely polite, interested in all aspects of my health, and willing to spend whatever time is necessary to answer my questions. I just saw her a day ago for a checkup, and maybe waited three minutes to be seen. Her office staff and nurses are wonderful too. I truly can’t understand anyone giving her a one star review. I consider her tops in the profession. Maybe people who saw her as part of their pursuit of pregnancy had other issues going on which bled into their impression of her as a person and a physician.

In my opinion, Dr. Bledsoe is condescending and her tone passive aggressively rude.

Honestly I’m shocked the handful of 5 star reviews on here, seriously shocked. Maybe she saw all the one star reviews and decided to change her style? Because when I saw her a few years ago for infertility she made me feel like an idiot every time I saw her, and I always left in tears, with more questions than answers! Zero bedside manner, zero empathy. I was trying to get treated for PCOS but she was only focused on the fertility part. «It doesn’t matter if you have PCOS, let’s just get you pregnant.» Then after we spent a great deal of money and time for one round of AI, she tells me as I’m laying on the table waiting to get «fertilized» that even with everything we did, we only had less than a 2% chance of it working. SERIOUSLY!?! I never want to see this woman again. Long story short, we adopted from foster care! Working with the state was less stressful than our time with Bledsoe, and free!

Dr. Bledsoe has been awesome and supportive through one of the scariest experiences of my life. A large nodule was found on my thyroid and it could have potentially been cancerous. She advised me to get a second opinion and to speak to a surgeon. I did see the surgeon a week later and had my thyroid removed due to the size. All of the advice that she provided has been dependable, helpful and most of all lifesaving. I feel great because Dr. Bledsoe is so thorough in monitoring my TSH and calcium level. I also appreciate the additional information she provides on managing and maintaining a healthy life style without a thyroid in addition to follow up communication she provides after my appointments. I have a peace of mind knowing that I have a strong endocrine doctor as a part of my health care team.

Personally, I don’t believe all the bad reviews on this Unilocal site. I was referred to Dr Bledsoe through another doctor in 2009. Every single time I have been, I’ve been cordially invited into the office, I never wait more than 10 minutes, my visits are thorough, intensive, personal, friendly, engaging, and I leave not frustrated, smiling, ready to continue to conquer my thyroid (I have for the last 20 years).
Hands down the best DOCTOR I’ve actually had in a comprehensive way. Straight forward and to the point with a smile, thanks Dr Bledsoe for keeping your staff staying on top of my bloodwork and visits (I am bad about keeping up with it all)

Dr. Bledsoe has been amazing. I have had nothing but good experiences with her and her staff. I began seeing her last year for infertility and PCOS and she is so very thorough and has great bed side manner. I am always seen without much of a wait. Dr. Bledsoe always took the time to answer my questions and resolve my concerns. I would recommend her to anyone!

Meeting with Dr Bledsoe was pretty good. I felt like she listened to me regarding my basic thyroid problems. It just felt like there was a disconnect when I was talking with her.
I did have major issues, they kept loosing my records, so even though I have been on thyroid meds for 20yrs+ I could never get an appt.
When I did get an appointment, they ‘lost’ it. they were able to squeeze me in and I had to wait quite a bit. they seem to have MAJOR issues when it comes to scheduling.

I just walked in from my first appointment with Dr. Bledsoe and I am puzzled by the negative reviews here. Everything was seamless and pleasant (as pleasant as doctor visits go) from start to end. I didn’t even have time to settle in my seat at the waiting room when a friendly and kind nurse called my name (I was on time for my appointment). Dr. Bledsoe came in just a couple of minutes later — she did not keep me waiting at all. She was friendly, patient, listened to me and answered all my questions. She addressed all my concerns, made herself available if I needed to call her in the future, and overall was the most pleasant doctor I have met.

I have been trying to get an appointment with this doctor for the past week, but I was informed that I could not be seen without a referral even though my insurance company doesn’t require it. I’m so happy and consider myself lucky after reading all the horrible reviews. I’ve seen a few other endocrinologists in town and find them all to be the same — very uncaring about a disease that affects a person as a whole. How are they still able to run a practice and what happened to having good ethics? I’ll have to continue my search.

I am surprised at the reviews on here, I had a wonderful experience with Dr. Bledose and the staff at Austin Regional Clinic.
I saw Dr. Bledsoe for infertility treatment, I was diagnosed with PCOS. And after everything I had read online, I was thrilled when she didn’t try to put me straight on metformin or other insulin medication. (PCOS is related to insulin.) In fact I never touched or even discussed insulin medication with her or my other doctors. Dr. Bledsoe put me very in charge of my fertility and let me choose what steps I wanted to take, and when to take them based on how ready I felt. I was never pressured into any treatment.
I worked with Dr. Bledsoe from February 2013 to November 2013 when I became pregnant (yay!) and every appointment she was kind, caring, and explained every level of diagnostic and bloodwork to me. She answered my million questions, her staff was amazing and fought with my insurance numerous times to get me the fertility medication I needed. Christine in her office is fantastic, and these ladies treat you like you are the only patient they have. I never felt shoved aside or like I was one of many patients.
Dr. Bledsoe outlined everything for me right up front, what the different fertility treatments looked like and how IVF would be the last step, and hopefully we wouldn’t need to go there (and we didn’t.)
Dr. Bledose is knowledgeable, kind, compassionate, and if you’re seeing her for infertility, you can see from her waiting rooms (all the pictures of babies from happy parents) that she is successful. I am so glad that I got Dr. Bledsoe for my endocrinologist to treat my fertility issues. She was phenomenal, always made me feel comfortable with every step of treatment, didn’t over prescribe things to me, and got the job done — I got pregnant! Once I was pregnant, she was thorough in checking all my levels until I cleared the first trimester, which truly put me at ease. She is phenomenal and I hope you have the chance to work with her!

Not my recommendation.
I am an educated professional and I know the importance of nutritional supplementation — and let’s just say we are not on the same page with regards to nutrition and how much it plays into a persons health. She said that she gets all her nutrition from the foods she eats … with this comment I am positive that she does not.
SO NOT ON THE SAME PAGE.

I was just curious to see how she ranked on here, and wasn’t going to write a review. Until… I see that my experience was just like everyone’s. I wish I had read these before wasting my time and going! Yes, she was extremely late for my appointment time, but I get it. I work in the medical field too, and know how things happen. So I’m generally more patient because of it. But what blew me away, was right after introducing herself upon entering my exam room, she tapped her watch and said «We need to hurry this, because it’s almost 5.» Really lady?! I waited to see YOU, not the other way around. I took a deep breath, and tried to shrug it off. Two more times within a few minutes, she tapped her watch again. She didn’t listen to anything I was saying, and basically handed me a name brand script and told me to follow up with my PCP. I asked her if she had samples I could try and was told by Dr. Bledsoe they don’t carry them. BS! I know the rep that comes to your office and delivers them, as well as your nurse told me earlier you had tons of them! Needles to say, a huge waste of my time, and the least compassionate and most unprofessional Dr I’ve ever met

I’m so glad I got a second opinion. Dr Bledsoe prescribed synthroid for a high TSH level without checking my T3 or T4 thyroid hormone levels. I don’t have thyroid disease. Two clues she missed are I have almost no symptoms of thyroid disease and the medicine produced the opposite results from what she said should have happened. When I asked a about this I was quickly told to go see my GP. Dr Maya Bledsoe is more cattle herder than physician. Perhaps she gets a bonus for prescribing the meds.

Wow, after seeing so many bad reviews I felt like I had to write mine.
I couldn’t be more pleased with Dr. Bledsoe. I started seeing her in October of 2010. That year I received some lab results stating that I had high calcium. I gooled it and found out that I could have Hyperparathyroidism. I looked for a specialist and came accross her.
We did additional labs and she confirmed I had hyperparathyroidism. She recommended surgery and I had it done that December. I had so many questions regarding my diagnosis and she was wonderful! She answered every one of them and she never rushed me.
Mid 2011 we discovered that I actually have MEN1, a genetical disorder. That is what caused hyperparthyroidism. Again, she was very thourough and answered all of my questions. She referred me to MD Anderson in Houston and I began treatment there.
After a few more surgeries I decided to take myself off my medication, for no real reason. I was just too lazy to take them. Dr. Bledsoe has me do routine labs every 3 – 4 months to monitor my condition. In my labs she noticed things were off with me. After consulting with her I explained I had taken myself off. She reminded me how important they are and told me that if I didn’t take care of myself, this disorder could kill me. She then told me something that has forever changed me. She asked what were to happen to my son if I were to die because I was too lazy to take my meds, she knows I am a single mother. That made me realize that she does care for her patients. She has been absolutely wonderful. She’s held my hand as I’ve cried, she told me to make lemonade with the lemons I was dealt with. She has been so supportive and patient with me as I continue to struggle with my disorder.
She is also great at communicating any issues that come up with my MD Anderson doctors. My MD Anderson doctors also know her and speak very highly of her. I feel that I have a great medical team helping me get though this, and it all started with Dr. Bledsoe!

I almost never write reviews for anything online. Mostly because reviews are either written by people that are mad or have an axe to grind or by review shops. And just like a review shop that is paid to write good reviews. A single person can post several bad reviews, have their friends post reviews and so on. Basically you can’t trust a thing you read.
This time I felt I should say something. Dr. Bledsoe is very thorough, very very thorough. For Low T she does a blood panel every 3 months. Seems like a bit too much but Testosterone is a dangerous performance enhancing drug with possible bad side affects. Because of this we knew right away when a blood test popped something abnormal and the result was heading something potentially life threatening off at the passs. If you are concerned you for your health or that you may die, then she is a good Endo to see. She doesn’t take chances and covers all the bases. I’ll admit I don’t like having to do extra tests and see other doctors to cover test results that are off in another area. But at the same time, life is precious and those extra things could catch something big. She is pleasant enough as far as I’m concerned. I have had multiple visits and I have never waited more than 20 minutes. But I know that for the best service get your appointment as early as possible. All it takes is 1 or 2 patients running late, which is rampant in Austin, for the doctor to be 30 minutes behind. Oh yeah and if you hate waiting now, just hang on to your hats once Obamacare is fully implemented. Anyway I diverge. Additionally Dr Bledsoe and the nurse seem to spend plenty of time. Usually Dr Bledsoe seems to kind of hang on a bit just to make sure I have a chance to say the last word. I’m 43, soon to be and have Low-​T. It didn’t take them a year to call me to tell me either, but guess what I am concerned enough about my own health that I call back when I think there has been enough time, say a week.
I personally prefer doctors be straight with me even if it hurts a little. If you don’t understand the tests results, forget asking her, hell any doctor for that matter. Most of them don’t have time to explain results that may have taken them a semester of med-​school or an advanced biology class to understand. Get a copy of the results, go home and use the thing you just used to write your bad reviews to look it up. It’s called «GOOGLE» and taking charge of your own medical choices. Contrary to many many people’s beliefs, doctors do not know everything. If they did, no one would ever be sick, cancer would have been cured 100 years ago and so on. Most of them specialize in specific areas for a reason. Because it is more beneficial to the patient. This means they do not and will not know things like all the interactions of medications you are on from another doctor are going to affect you. If anyone can tell you this information it isn’t even at the doctor, it’s the PHARMACY. You can also «GOOGLE» the drugs, and OMG you would not believe the information on this thing called the Internet about drugs and drug interactions. I wonder how many of the reviewers on here have even ever read all the drug interactions and warnings for the medication you take? Listening to the warnings on a commercial doesn’t count.
Also, I saw Monica R stated a relatively young guy was told to get a bone density test before Testosterone therapy. And Monica R couldn’t believe that, she thought it was stupid. Again more uninformed people. I’m not even sure adopting is a good idea in her case. I’m going to guess they or she or he didn’t even bother to question this or maybe look up the side-​affects of testosterone therapy. I for one looked up the side affects before I ever asked for replacement therapy. Testosterone is a steroid used illegally as a performance enhancing drug, guess what those can have bad bad side affects. One of the bad side affects of T therapy is BONE LOSS. The bone density test to start with isn’t to see if you already have bone loss, it’s to get a baseline so that future bone density tests will allow Dr Bledsoe to see if the T therapy is hurting your bones.
What it seems to me is that everyone on here complaining is forgetting YOU are paying her. It’s no different than paying a mechanic, she just happens to work on your body’s endo system. If you are paying you have the right to stand up and say, whoa, just a minute, you are replacing the windshield wiper when I came in because the tire is wobbling? Not a great parallel story but you get it. Ask questions, call back and ask questions, use that thing called «GOOGLE». Doctors just don’t have the time to explain the details of every test result number to you. If they did, they’d see ½ the patients and charge 2x. If they say it’s good, it’s good, then move on. If it is bad, ask questions. If you want to know more get a copy and google it.

LITERALLY THE WORST DOCTOR I HAVE DEALT WITH IN MY LIFE. When I checked this review site several years ago (sadly, just after leaving Dr. Bledsoe’s care) she literally had 27 negative reviews out of 31. Since a number of those reviews have been cleared with time, I would like to add my voice.
Dr. Bledsoe is an unpleasant person, a questionable doctor, and runs the worst type of patient mill. Every appt I had with her for 1.5 years involved waiting 45 – 60 minutes just to be seen with the actually appt running 3 – 5 minutes. She would scowl with impatience if I had the gall to ask any question that hampered her rapid escape from the room and only give brief, terse answers.
I came to Dr. Bledsoe with a very advanced case of Grave’s Disease (a type of hyperthyroidism). Despite claiming to me to be a thyroid expert (her specialty is actually fertility NOT thyroid, she is qualified to handle basic thyroid but not a complex case like mine) she was unable to handle my case.
Further, she became increasingly hostile towards *me* each visit as my thyroid was not responding to treatment as she expected, as if this represented something willful on my part (all while I was literally dropping with illness). In all actuality, the fault lay with her for misrepresenting herself as a thyroid specialist when she was in no way (emotionally or medically) qualified to treat my complex and advanced case.
Additionally, on top of the already very severe thyroid issues, I became desperately ill while being treated by her. Because of the timing, I assumed it was part of the thyroid illness and told her about it. She first reacted with hostility as if it was all a cheap sham to get a work excuse, and when I persisted over several visits, she declared that there was absolutely no medical reason for me to feel as bad as I did and that I needed to see a psychiatrist!
uh, how about actually exploring the medical situation before deciding that I must be crazy or depressed (and I decidedly was neither, though having a doctor I was turning to in severe illness blowing me off was a pretty major emotional blow), first?
In the end, the additional health problem turned out to be the very well known neurological side effects of a medication I was (inadvisably, I now know) on to treat the side effects of the thyroid disease. Even if she had somehow never heard of their potential for severe side effects, the medically appropriate thing to do would have been to at least examine the medical situation instead of dismissively sending me off to a psychiatrist because my health problems must all be in my head.
So, to wrap up: highly unpleasant, total patient mill, doesn’t appreciate questions, not a great doctor, and wanted to send me to a psychiatrist when she couldn’t figure out why I was feeling sicker than she thought I should. AVOID AT ALL COSTS– YOU CAN DO BETTER WITH ALMOST ANYONE ELSE!!!

I decided to see Dr. Bledsoe last year because my husband and I are having trouble getting pregnant. My OBGYN recommended her to me because I have an abnormally thin uterine lining. My husband also suffers from low testosterone so we were told that she could treat us both simultaneously.
One of my side effects of the thin uterine lining is a lack of a menstrual cycle. Bledsoe said the only thing I can do to «fix» my problem was to go on birth control! I explained to her that I felt like it was counter intuitive since birth control would make it extremely hard to become pregnant and she would not offer any other alternative for me. She saw me for 5 min (for each visit) maximum and would not stay any longer to answer my questions. I left both appointments in tears and she acted as if I were being irrational for being upset. She told me I could always adopt!
My husband experienced similar issues with feeling dismissed by her. His visit lasted maybe 5 minutes. My husband has a growth on his pituitary gland that causes his body to not produce testosterone. He has been taking steroid injections to have normal testosterone levels. Instead of offering some sort of testosterone replacement therapy (since steroids kill sperm) she insisted on bone density tests! My husband is young and has never even broken a bone! My husband has since seen another endocrinologist who is helping him with TRT. My husband saw Bledsoe one year ago and her nurse just called us last week to tell him «HE MAY have low testosterone.» YOU THINK? We obviously already knew that! Thanks for telling us a year after our appointment.
PLEASE do not see Maya Bledsoe! You are on HER time, not yours. She will not be available for questions and she does not take the time to listen to your situation. You are just a chart to her.

I saw Dr. Bledsoe a number of years ago for an issue. I was kind of shocked by her big pharma. approach… i.e. dose me up to get rid of my problems. It’s funny because after a sample dose or maybe just naturally my symptoms cleared up and never came back again. She also didn’t explain much about what was going on, and I still have a big question mark in my head about the whole experience.
Recently, I was having some different issues and out of fear ran back to her to try to figure out what was going on. Again, I was just shocked at her approach… lots of testing and then a call to drugs. No real explanation of what was going on with me. When I asked her if there was any natural cures to what was happening, she said, I’m an an MD, and I just know how to prescribe medicine.
Okay, I understand that is her training, but I just think you can at least be open to less invasive treatments or know about them? At first she seemed pleased that I was interested in what tests she was doing and paying attention, but then she sort of treated me with contempt by the end of the appointment.
Her nurse was supposed to get back to me about something and never did.
I’ve made an appointment with someone else to try to figure out what is going on and not with one of «her» other doctors as she recommended.
On the other hand, even though I didn’t see her for this, she does have tons of happy moms and dads and babies on her wall that she apparently helped enlarge their family. So I don’t know, she might excel there. I don’t have any experience with her there.

Note: This woman is an endocrinologist.
I would prefer to give this woman zero stars. I guess having 57 degrees/​diplomas/​certificates plastered on your walls doesn’t mean any one of them is for learning a decent bedside manner and some tact, or even that you’re a very good doctor at that.
I was diagnosed with Grave’s disease by my stellar PCP Dr. Kravitz, my case was severe enough that he got me in with Dr. Bledsoe ASAP. I did not realize I was going to have to have my thyroid removed, when Dr. Bledsoe informed me I was upset and started to cry. She brusquely stated that once my thryoid was gone I would «be able to handle bad news better.» I could not believe my ears.
Things just went downhill from there. On one appointment after my thyroidectomy, after I had been on the hormone replacement for a month, Dr. Bledsoe actually held up the lab diagnostics report and squealed that my levels were great but did not bother to explain to me what each thing meant, what normal levels are, etc. She then quickly blew off my questions about not feeling that great mentally and physically, literally told me to «talk to my PCP because she could not help me» and ushered me out the door as fast as she could.
Oh, and her nurses are incompetent. I had different nurses calling me and telling me different things after I would have blood work done and in one instance the nurse didn’t even bother to note on my chart the things she said; the following day a different nurse called with different information and seemed confused by the fact that a nurse had already spoken to me the day before. I’ve called the nurses with questions, they’ve said they will ask the doctor and then I never heard back from them.
To cut this short, Maya Bledsoe seems more interested in choosing her outfit for the day then helping her patients. I could never get an appointment after 10:00 am and I can only assume this is probably because every day is a half day for Dr. Bledsoe, she just seems that type. I would not recommend her to my worst enemy or anyone for that matter.