I hate it when I meet with people who say they can help me and after I've met with them, it becomes obvious I know more than they do. And, in this last case that though he asked for a three day food diary & I sent that, along with a link to the GP diet, & some other explanatory materials, he didn't even make the effort to read those - well he read the food diary, those pages were all marked up.
This was the guy I take the meditation classes from - and he had made a suggestions before that helped my GERD go away (I'm still on the 2 nexium & 1 Zantac, but I'd been having constant breakthrough hell for months) -- and it was as easy as dring several cups of hot water a day. I lulled myself with false hope that he might actually know something that could help.
But instead of telloing me things that would expand my options he wanted to limit them even further. But at the same time, he was telling me to go back to three meals a day at amounts that I suppose aren't really huge but are just way more than I can eat anymore. And when I eat "big" meals they digest so slowly that they cause hypoglycemic crashes. This is really a bad idea.
For breakfast he wanted me to have a cup of quinoa with dried figs, a slice of spelt toat with ghee, 1/2 a grapefruit, and 2 scoops of this stuff called Sustain in water. Then lunch, another cup of quinoa with mixed vegetables, more spelt bread & ghee, and a cup of Dal (lentil soup), then dinner more quinoa & spelt toast & another 2 scoops of Sustain. That's a HUGE amount of, boring, food. Not to mention that the last time I had lentils I was in extreme pain for two weeks! I haven't really even tried any non-babyfood veggies other than sweet potatoes & mashed potatoes since I've been diagnosed, grapefruit is wrong on many levels with GP & GERD, and that Sustain stuff would cost $70 every two weeks & has 3 grams of fiber in it (He gave me a jar - though I suspect it was part of the price of the consult - he cost more than my doctor!). Don't figs have skin on them? I do eat quinoa (it's a complete protein by itself, 23 grams a cup & easy to digest), but in smaller amounts, and I don't want it all day, every day.
Oh, and he told me that I wasn't to eat anything with a mother, wheat, dairy, potatoes, or rice. Why on earth would I stop eating things I've figured out that I can eat?
Then the appointment ended in a way that creeped me out. As far as I could tell we were the only two in the building (Saturday appointment), & he kept telling me that I needed to call or e-mail him throughout the week, and to come back for more classes & Sunday meditation sessions, saying that I needed supportive compainions on my spiritual journey, then he hugged me for way longer than was comfortable & kissed my forehead.
I have one more meditation class left. I'm not even sure I want to go back for that now, though there will be others there. On the one hand I do, it's a good class & I think it's helping, but on the other hand, that really wierded me out.
I told him I'm not coming on Sunday - I go to Sunday School & Church & it's important to me. My friends through church are very supportive of me. And though I had been considering taking a yoga class there, I think I'll find a class somewhere else.
I just wish this creepy fiasco hadn't cost so much money.
Am I over-reacting?