Jenna Starko

I saw her when she was working for Amne Alaniz. She had a very cold and harsh attitude toward me. At the time I had an ovarian cyst that was causing a lot of pain for me when I would go to work. I could walk around ok for the first couple of hours but after that it felt like a sharp rock was stabbing me from the inside and the pain was really intense. I had a stand up and walk around retail job on a sales floor with 7-8 hour shifts and the pain was so bad after the first couple of hours that I couldn't get through the whole shift. The gynecologist office who had referred me had allowed me to go on leave for a few weeks and I was hoping to get that renewed with Jenna since I couldn't get through a whole shift. Before these symptoms developed and before I had a problem with the cyst, I had a previous bad experience with an OTC medicine where I had to go on a liquid diet for three days to get my stomach to stop hurting even though I had taken it with food. My GI doc at the time… told me not to take that. I had also taken so much of another OTC medicine recently that my liver bloodwork was bad. Jenna wanted me to take those and go back to work even when I explained to her the history I'd had with these medications. When I told her that I didn't think that would be good, and that I'd already been overdosing on the second one she offered a prescription as an alternative but said not to drive with it. I asked her how I was supposed to get to work and back without driving and she said that's not her problem if I lose my job . She said to take it after I got home. When I tried to explain that walking for more than a couple hours at work was what was triggered the pain and that's when I would need the pain relief, she scoffed at me and said coldly "You can walk! Nothing about this stops you from walking!" She wouldn't listen when I tried to tell her the first two hours were OK but after that it hurt too much. I got the impression she believed that I was just trying to get out of work and making excuses. It was embarrassing and infuriating because I was actually trying to save my job. I left in tears unsure of what to do and if I was going to lose my job/insurance. I ended up having to drive to work, take the prescription my car, then drive home at the end of my shift when it had partially worn off. The pain had to be relieved at work to make it through the shift. She wouldn't listen when I tried to explain that walking around/bending, etc. at work was what caused the cyst pain to flare up. It was still painful to work and I had to take short steps but the stronger medicine made the pain bearable enough not to have to go home but I was still hurting when I left work and one time I fell asleep at a stop light on the way home which was very scary for me and dangerous for me and others because of the position she put me into. Where I live here in Houston there were no good public transportation options. Her whole attitude was pure contempt that I couldn't endure feeling like I was being stabbed from the inside.