Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Just got back from the doctor...I'm going to cry it went so badly!

Kelly, I'm answering your question with another story.

Before I had my right knee arthroscopy to remove all the broken cartiledge in my knee (I used to be a runner and broke it all), I was in a great deal of pain. My doctor didn't want me running anymore, but I insisted, so he sent me to a specialist for pain shots.

Anyway, that "specialist" was a first-class jerk. For one thing, he was running really late. My appointment was the last of the day, and he was annoyed because he was missing out on his basketball game with none other than one of my bosses -- an attorney in the firm where I was working -- a "friend" of his.

That jerk of a "specialist" hurt me, but worse than that, he treated me like I had inconvenienced him BIG TIME, and then left me all alone, leaving me behind in his office!

He sat on the stool and I was sitting on the examining table. He reached for the needle and growled at me, "now don't kick me!" I didn't know what he meant until he stuck that needle in me and gave me the most excruciatingly painful shot I've ever experienced in my life. It's a good thing he warned me not to kick him, because I WOULD HAVE! He tossed the needle aside as he stormed out of the office with not a word to me. I sat there in excruciating pain, waiting for the door to shut behind him, and then I broke down. I wasn't about to cry in front of him (even if I had the chance). I couldn't climb down from the table because I was in such pain. I heard the sound of his car leaving the parking lot, "peeling a wheel" in the gravel, just before my hubby came in to see how I was. Everyone in the office had left hubby and me behind, and the office was dark. I cried all the way home, in the worst pain I've ever had.

The next day in the office I told my boss what a jerk he had for a friend. I SOOOO did not care about anything but letting my boss know just how awful this so-called "specialist" was.

You know what my boss replied? He said, "yeah, and you should see him on the basketball court. He's a lot of fun, telling us how to play and how we should get off the court. He's a real jerk."

Your GI was no better than this idiot. And your doctor needs to know not to refer other patients to him.

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