Glad to heae that you saw your doc and you've gone for some blood tests. Do write when you've got the results!
I'm pretty shattered after the endoscopy yesterday. The proceedure itself was definately copeable, but the worst of it was the doc himself! I had a real problem with his attitude ~ he wouldn't let me tell him what I needed to. There were FOUR men in the room when I went in ~ as well as the doc ~ and I wasn't even told they'd be there, or asked if I minded! I did mind! They were junior docs apparantly. Then when I was lying on the couch with the plate already between my teeth and waiting for the tube to be inserted he had a long phone call with his secretary who'd apparantly lost some important notes! His irritability wound me up and I just thought he was totally insensitive to the patient on the couch waiting for him to start an endoscopoy proceedure!
The endoscopy showed up some erosions in a couple of places which will have led to the gastritis that I'm currently experiencing.
I came out in tears ~ I just felt that he should have dealt with me differently. The upshot is that the nursing staff told him I'd had a problem with him and he gave me the opportunity to tell him exactly what that was ~ and I did!
He blames our health system for putting him under so much time pressure ~ all the same................
Anyway ~ enough of that ~ now I need to think about how to go forward ~ I feel I need some prof input ~ back to acupuncture very possibly!
Hope you're feeling better today, and feel that you've got your doc's support!
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Abigail endoscopy experience!
