Have A Good Old Moan....

Deloria, that's really bad--abdominal pain is not a wait and see situation.  I had a bowel infection and IBS and was in excruciating abdominal pain, and my GPs (I ended up seeing two of them in the space of a couple of days) insisted that I go to A&E if the pain did not subside in a couple of days or if I developed a fever or started to feel run down.  I know you've already been once, but just testing for a water infection is not sufficient.

You should demand an ultrasound immediately, and if your GP won't do it, go to A&E and insist on more than a dipstick test.

I agree that you should absolutely go to a&e. It could be something completely easy to treat, but it's best to be looked at. Hope you feel better soon!

Deloria, that's really bad--abdominal pain is not a wait and see situation.  I had a bowel infection and IBS and was in excruciating abdominal pain, and my GPs (I ended up seeing two of them in the space of a couple of days) insisted that I go to A&E if the pain did not subside in a couple of days or if I developed a fever or started to feel run down.  I know you've already been once, but just testing for a water infection is not sufficient.

You should demand an ultrasound immediately, and if your GP won't do it, go to A&E and insist on more than a dipstick test.

They've ruled out ectopic pregnancy because of the negative tests and his rough handled press on my tummy, that was my second gp appointment and last night at the hospital so that's already 3 🙁 I'm snuggled up with a hot water bottle at the minute if it really doesn't ease up I'm going to try a gp referral, it's just so frustrating that daily tasks like standing up hurts as much as it does

thats so awful. if it were me i would go back to the hospital, be very firm and agressive but still professional, and demand that something needs to be done and you cannot wait around for your GP you are in so much pain it is severely affecting your every day life. ive had several medical issues in the past, one being MRSA that i got from a botched emergency c section and they aere complete effing idiots. for 5 months i felt like effing death. i was in so much pain, white as a ghost, it was not healing, no matter what meds they gave me or how many drs or hospital visits it just got worse and they just kept putting me off like it was all in my head and it wasnt that bad. fed up feeling like i wasliterally dying, im not even being sarcastic, i went to a defferent hospital system, oakwood instead of henry ford, and IMMEDIATELY they took care of me and did everything that henry ford hospital system shoud haev been doing the past 5 months....

they did blood work, took cultures, etc. they said my hemoglobin was 7, its supossed to be 14 so i was very anaemic (so thats why id been seeing spots constantly! looked like fruit flies everywhere!) , and allll the different meds they gave me have absolutely zero affect on mrsa, not even in the slightest. they immediately put me in with their top infectious disease dr, which HF never did i was being treated strictly by their idiot Ob/gyns the next day. she looked at my charts and said i am lucky to still be alive that she couldnt believe i was alive standing in front of her.basically the MRSA had been running rampant for 5 months. she ordered high dose iron for the anemia, a picc line inserted into my arm, and IV antibiotics every day, ordered a home  nurse come to the house everyday for a week and i could have kept him coming everyday, or choose to let jake my fiance learn what to do from the nurse. unfortunately but thankfully jake has a ton of experience from taking care of his dad for years so it was 2nd nature to him.

so basically, if i wouldnt have gone to the other hosp system i would have died. so i really think you should go somewhere else and explain the whole situation and be very firm. ive learned with some places, you have to be ver yfirm because they assume they know wverything and assume that a lot of people come in because they are drug seeking and exaggerate things. i would definitely go somewhere else and politely demand that something be done.

just had a full on, heart palpitation, dizzying panic attack, and I dont know why. 

I've had a horrible week, one of my dogs got poorly and basically his intestine went inside itself and didn't go back and twisted itself so he has to have emergency surgery to cut away this part of his intestine, we just got him back today and on the way home someone drove into the side of my car, i had to call the police as they refused to give me insurance details (group of 4 young lads) and threatened to punch my husband, my son jumped off the sofa yesterday and smacked his head on the floor so we had a trip to the walk in clinic as he had a huge lump, and im full of cold so officially feeling sorry for myself now xx

two of my toes and part of my foot has been numb since last night because I wore heels all day :S

thats so awful. if it were me i would go back to the hospital, be very firm and agressive but still professional, and demand that something needs to be done and you cannot wait around for your GP you are in so much pain it is severely affecting your every day life. ive learned with some places, you have to be ver yfirm because they assume they know everything and assume that a lot of people come in because they are drug seeking and exaggerate things. i would definitely go somewhere else and politely demand that something be done.

I went back to my GP and saw a different doctor on Friday who straight away said I had to go to the surgical assessment unit and scared me so much as he said it could be a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, an ovarian cyst or appendicitis all of which would have needed surgery. While I was there though they did a scan and blood tests and all other sorts of things and said that they can't find anything but that I do have a temperature and a bit of swelling in my tummy so to take paracetamol and ibuprofen spread out over 2 hours which should ease the pain a bit. Apparently missing a whole period and being late for the next one isn't something to worry about because you can just stop ovulating, I thought this only happened when you started menopause! But they've said not to worry and maybe a couple months on the pill will settle everything down : Still no answer really but at least there's nothing to panic about I guess

Glad you finally saw a doctor who took you seriously.
Hope you get well soon.

So glad you saw a GP who treated it with the seriousness it deserved and managed to rule out anything major.  Hope you feel better soon, and that they manage to figure out what it is now that they know some of what it isn't.

I've had both children off school poorly most of this week, they're both nearly better which is good, but I've got to do some decorating today & tomorrow and I'm now just so tired from being up most nights with my daughter and not feeling so great myself. Bluerghh, hoping I don't get as bad as they've been!

im so annoyed and irritated with everything right now. i wish i could just take a vacation, seriously. my insurance was cut off for BS reasons, so now i have no idea what to do with my 2 bulging discs, figuring out whats going on with my body as ive been having atremendous amount of MS-like symptoms off and on over the past several years - they did an MRI which my nero said he doesnt see any lesions...but a lot of times you can have horrible symotoms for years before lesions will appear on an MRI. so, im just left with random pain that will last for a day to a couple months, then il be fine for a month then il have some other crazy weird pain, like it feels like a boa constrictor around my upper back?? il have that for a couple months then it will stop, my vision rx in my right eye has quadrupled in strength over the past year and now i cant see out of it well again so i know it got worse...i could go on and on about it..... and i had very abnormal, mid grade result from my obgyn that needs to be biopsied, cant get that done now unless i pay out of pocket...and my GP wont refill my prilosec for my acid reflux or my other 2 rxs unless i see him, so id have to pay for the office visit and for the rxs out of pocket....its all so expensive its rediculous.

my son broke a pair of my glasses a few months ago, and just broke my only other pair today. so now i not only have to pay for a new eye exam, now i need new glasses too, and il be needing contacts again too, which are really expensive for my eyes...

theres a bunch of other stuff...i just want to take a little mental health vacation lol. im so stressed out idk what to do...

I'm feeling really down and lonely. I just moved from Leeds to Birmingham a couple of months ago for my PhD and I don't know anyone -- and right after I moved I got really sick: had infected kidneys, urinary tract and uterus. I've been bedridden for a lot of the time since, and even though I'm much better now, I still get so tired sore easily and can't do all the things I used to just take for granted (and also can't drink). I'm so behind on my work it feels like I'm running but staying standing still. And worst of all there's no-one I can really talk to or hang out with because I don't have any friends here, I can't even just go and have a cup of tea and a chat to get out of the house and out of my own brain for a little while. I feel so sad and worried all the time.

And this weekend, I was meant to be going to visit one of my best friends in London and another best friend would be there and I was looking forward to it, but in the end I couldn't go because I have a chapter draft due Monday and I'm too knackered to travel. So I don't even have my boyfriend to talk to or my best friends to phone because they're all having fun in London without me.

It's been one of those weeks where everything has gone wrong -- the highlights being losing about 3000 words of work that I had to try and write all over again from scratch (when I'm already so behind); falling over twice and badly bruising myself down both sides; locking myself out of the house in the cold and having to pay a locksmith £260 to get back in.

I know there are worse things in life, but, I just feel right now like I'm totally alone and I can't do anything right and I'm never going to feel normal again. Sorry about the tiny violin solo/massive moanathon.

Hope you all feel better soon!

had a really shitty and rude customer today.  took all my willpower not to cry in front of him. Wanker!