Need to vent

hi everyone @hanami @Snowie @Emelia8 @Shaz51 @tyme @Eve7 @MDT and others i have forgotten

I am not well. Sunday night hubby drove me to local hospital. I had terrible pains lower left abdomen; similar pain to my diverticulitis. i arrived at 10pm and did NOT see a dr until 10.30am the next day!!! I was given strong pain killers during the night by a nurse; but it was very hard to get comfortable or sleep in a waiting room. i managed to lay down on 3 seats but very uncomfortable. apparently there was only 1 doctor in ED the whole night. it was ridiculuous to the say the least. i got up at 6am and asked the nurse how much longer and she agreed it was crazy that i hadn't been seen. she assured me that at 8am the day doctors (3) will arrive and i would be seen. By 9.30am still sitting there in pain because pain meds weren't working i got very angry, tired, and started to cry. i was in pain and no one was doing anything.

finally get called in to a bed and dr comes in. i had bloods done, ECG and later a CT scan. the dr thought i may have a bowel obstruction, or diverticulitis or a cyst erupting. The scan came back all ok. But i still have this terrible sharp pain that comes and goes. They sent me home with a script for pain meds as they needed the bed for other patients.

i got home and went straight to bed, i was exhausted. before that i took a strong pain med and slept all night.

this morning i woke up and was sick in the bathroom. just now managed to keep down a piece of toast. But i am still in pain.

while in hospital i emailed my gastroenterologist in the hope that he could have admitted me to a private hospital, but he was in theatre all day. his office forwarded the email to his phone. my own dr is on leave until monday when i have an appt made already. but i think if today gets worse i will call an ambulance as i am home alone and go to a bigger hospital 1/2 hour away (hubby works there) and see what happens there.

i am not sure if things can be missed by a ct scan??? i have no idea what this pain is.

anyway i am going back to bed; its a horrible cold windy rainy day. not a good melbourne cup day.

love to all xxxxxx

Hi @BlueBay

What an awful experience you've had at the hospital! And they found no cause of the pain? Did they rule out food poisoning? I had food poisoning earlier this year and was in absolute agony with abdominal pain. I hope you get some answers soon.

Take care

Hanami

Oh dear @BlueBay that sounds awful, I am so sorry. Hope things settle soon, or at least you get some answers from someone as to what's going on, and then proper treatment can commence. You poor thing, it all sounds such a lot. Things will improve, they have to. Thinking of you, with love and concern.

Emelia 💕

Thanks @Emelia8 @hanami

im in so much pain

I don’t know what to do

I’m home alone

Hi @BlueBay,

I'm really sorry to read you are going through so much at the moment. The experience at the hospital sounds very stressful, I really hope they get the bottom of what is causing you so much pain very soon. Maybe (as you said) you would be better going to a larger hospital if you feel you need to go again? Hopefully at least they will be able to see you in a quicker time frame.

Please take care of yourself @BlueBay - I really hope the pain passes for you very soon.

FloatingFeather

Called an ambulance. They won’t come as it’s not urgent but have booked a taxi to take me free of charge to local hospital again. They won’t take me to big hospital.

@FloatingFeather @Emelia8 @hanami @Shaz51 @Snowie

Please take care of yourself @BlueBay - I'm sorry to read that you can't go to the big hospital but I do think you are doing the right thing going to the local hospital to be on the safe side. It sounds like you are in too much pain to not get some medical help.

Hope you are feeling a lot better very soon,

FloatingFeather

Ohhh my sister @BlueBay , hope you are OK

Waiting to hear from you and sitting with you ❤❤

I hope you get the help you deserve @BlueBay

Sitting with you hon 💜💜

hello my friends @Snowie @Shaz51 @FloatingFeather @Emelia8 @Eve7 @hanami and others following

After the doctor analysing all the tests i had done over the past 2 days he decided that there was nothing else the emergency dept could do. But he is thinking that the pain could be from the fibroid I have that is degenerative. He has ordered a pelvic ultrasound hopefully for today or tomorrow, they will call me this morning. He has said for me to see my gastroenterologist again.

I had hubby pick me up at 5pm and came home still with pain but mild now. I get home and hubby hasn't worked out dinner (i had chicken in the fridge); nothing was done. I was hoping that he would just say 'you lay down and i will organise dinner'. oh no. he says whats for dinner? i ended up telling him to cut chicken up and cook that i did some zucchini fritters and a salad.

I then put a load of washing on and hung inside on the rack; then i saw the bathroom floor was disgusting so i grabbed the stick vac and ended up doing the whole house while he was sitting down on his phone.

i then got dizzy and made a comment that i need to sit down and his reply was 'oh you're doing too much' - well who the f.....k was going to do it.

i ended up falling to sleep on the couch and went to bed. I am now waiting for a phone call to make appt for ultrasound and call from my gastroenterologist.

i got really angry with everything last night.

anyway, i managed to have a few crackers for breakfast, nothing else is appetising at the moment.

i want to go and buy some beef bones to make a broth - this will help my stomach.

i now realise that i have done far too much to make my life easier instead of asking hubby; but now when i am sick he doesn't know what to do. it's not that hard to quickly come up with something for dinner.

just annoyed.