Not fixed yet??
I posted this as my new blog post, but figured I would put it out here, just in case anyone else can shed some light :)
Almost exactly one month to the day since my last surgery, I was at work (Memorial Day), been feeling great, not just fine, but great! I ate lunch, and a few hours later felt really bloated, and had some abdominal pain, but even that didn't get me down, I worked the rest of my shift and wasn't worried because it was a completely different pain that what I used to have! I still have calorie issues, so even though I didn't feel great, I still felt like I had to eat dinner, so I ate...and then that old, familiar, horrible feeling started...the bad nausea started creeping in, I popped a Phenergan to try and stop it, no luck, then it moved on to the inability to swallow my own saliva, which is bad enough, but then you add hyper-salivation to the mix, terrible, and then the pain, back in the same old spot, Left upper/lower quadrant abdominal pain that was easily a 9-10! I just looked at my husband and said this must be a nightmare because I thought we were done with this. So, after some debate, and a call to a wonderful friend, we ended up in the ER AGAIN!! As most of you know, I work in the ER, so they have gotten quite the education about my problems, and are wonderful, they got me comfortable, somewhat, pain was still about a 7-8 after meds, and I spent the next 5 days in the hospital, mostly getting fluids (NPO of course- couldn't pay me to eat at that point), and then the GI doctor wanted to repeat the colonoscopy/upper endoscopy that was done in February to see what was going on. My advice, if you have to have the prep for the colonoscopy, do the pills, not the gallon of go-lightly (funny name for that stuff), just make sure that you get some anti-nausea meds on board before taking the 32 pills!! So, a diagnosis of a bad case of gastritis, and a Psych consult later (oh yeah, the fun never ends! I must be NUTS because they can't figure it all out!) I will agree that the stress of being sick for over a year is probably not helping, but I refuse to believe that it is the SOLE cause. So, here I am, not sure if I even want to bother finding out what it is that makes me sick, or just manage life with 2-3 visits to the ER each month?? I know some of you suffer with similar issues, I'll take any advice at this point. I haven't completely lost my sense of humor yet, close though.
Almost exactly one month to the day since my last surgery, I was at work (Memorial Day), been feeling great, not just fine, but great! I ate lunch, and a few hours later felt really bloated, and had some abdominal pain, but even that didn't get me down, I worked the rest of my shift and wasn't worried because it was a completely different pain that what I used to have! I still have calorie issues, so even though I didn't feel great, I still felt like I had to eat dinner, so I ate...and then that old, familiar, horrible feeling started...the bad nausea started creeping in, I popped a Phenergan to try and stop it, no luck, then it moved on to the inability to swallow my own saliva, which is bad enough, but then you add hyper-salivation to the mix, terrible, and then the pain, back in the same old spot, Left upper/lower quadrant abdominal pain that was easily a 9-10! I just looked at my husband and said this must be a nightmare because I thought we were done with this. So, after some debate, and a call to a wonderful friend, we ended up in the ER AGAIN!! As most of you know, I work in the ER, so they have gotten quite the education about my problems, and are wonderful, they got me comfortable, somewhat, pain was still about a 7-8 after meds, and I spent the next 5 days in the hospital, mostly getting fluids (NPO of course- couldn't pay me to eat at that point), and then the GI doctor wanted to repeat the colonoscopy/upper endoscopy that was done in February to see what was going on. My advice, if you have to have the prep for the colonoscopy, do the pills, not the gallon of go-lightly (funny name for that stuff), just make sure that you get some anti-nausea meds on board before taking the 32 pills!! So, a diagnosis of a bad case of gastritis, and a Psych consult later (oh yeah, the fun never ends! I must be NUTS because they can't figure it all out!) I will agree that the stress of being sick for over a year is probably not helping, but I refuse to believe that it is the SOLE cause. So, here I am, not sure if I even want to bother finding out what it is that makes me sick, or just manage life with 2-3 visits to the ER each month?? I know some of you suffer with similar issues, I'll take any advice at this point. I haven't completely lost my sense of humor yet, close though.
Jules RNY 10/30/2007
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