Can I vent ??

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Finally had my appnt with my gastro to go over my labwork, biopsy results

from back in Nov and Dec.

My SIL went with me and my husband was meeting me over there.

I get the impression she assumes I was a drug user/addict or some other such

thing since she just had to mention that being the way it is contracted. Then

she tells me I have to sign a contract saying I will submit to random drug

testing and saying I will either abstain from sex while on treatment or use 2

forms of birth control. I can understand the part about the drugs causing birth

defects but......I am 50 and separated, not dating anyone and the birth control

seemed like a joke since I am in menopause as well.

Then she proceeds to ask me if I have been upset or depressed since the

diagnosis. I said " UH who wouldnt be when they find out they have a disease that

they have no idea how they got " BTW...I told her I thought I had Hep after she

did ever other test and found nothing wrong with me. So, she says " you need to

see a psychologist because if you go into tx depressed it will become 10X

worse and I know a woman that shot her husband while on tx. All I could say to

that was " good thing we are separated " *LOL*

Then she told me my symptoms were not hep related. HUH ?? Are nausea,

fatigue, headaches, pain in abdomen not listed as hep symptoms. She proceeded to

tell

me I had gerd and needed an rx for Nexium.

Well my SIL and I both had notebooks with questions and notes and my husband

did not show up. But as we were walking out of the docs office, there he was

sitting in the waiting room. He had been told by my docs ass-istant that I

already had someone back with me and he could not go back. I was never even told

he was out there waiting. Is there some kind of rule saying you can only have

one person in the " meeting " to discuss tx ??

So, I am going to find a new doc. Too many things about her that annoyed and

upset me. I felt like I was getting no good info or support. She also told me

I would lose my hair. I have read you may lose some hair but not all of it ?

Besides being confused I am now frustrated !!!!

And I am not doing tx !

Thanks for listening !

Pat