What’s wrong with me, hospital clueless

Pain worse than childbirth and unable to wee - that's a kidney stone waving flags in their faces.

Kick up a fuss and get PALS on board. You'd never be treated like this if you were a man writhing in pain and unable to wee. This is outrageous.

Honestly, the worst pain I've ever had was a kidney stone blocking my urethra. Ended up with lithotripsy to break it up. I was never so glad as to see gravel in my wee!
(I've not had kids/severe gynae pain, but I've had a couple of spinal surgeries and a knee replacement: the first few hours of kidney stones beat them all.) Good luck, OP

I had something similar. Sudden intense pain. Called an ambulance. No infection found ɓut when in A&E my legs couldn't hold me up and I was unable to pee, although pain subsided Stupid doctor tried to tell me it was a tummy upset and sent me home. I saw my GP who thought - probably correctly- that it was a trapped nerve. It got better over a few days but there was a numbness in part of my leg for some time ( couldn't fell touch or temperature). Never happened again.

Sounds like gallstones. I had gallstones blocking my bile duct and it developed into Pancreatitis. Had a stent put in and 6 days in hospital. Pain was excruciating. Like labour.

Have they done CRP blood test to look for infection?

Could be cholecystitis or perhaps pancreatitis?

siunds like agony. I hope it is fixed quickly

I had something very similar last year. The pain was unreal. I was crying my eyes out and bent over anything. Going on all fours to see if that would help the pain. Then I couldn’t pee but felt like a needed to. I was heavily pregnant at the time too. After 3 trips to maternity triage, they diagnosed me with a kidney stone. By the time I got an ultrasound, I had passed the stone but they could see the damage. Does the pain feel like it’s starting to move round from the back?

The pain you describe can be gall bladder pain - sometimes people's stones don't appear on CT scan. Women say they would rather give birth twice in a row than have gall bladder attacks.

Did they do a contrast (add a dye into your veins) when they did the CT? Do you have family history of gall bladder problems? Its more common after pregnancy as hormones encourage development of the stones.

I am not sure though about the no wee.

But regardless, have you heard of the NICE guidelines? They are the guidelines in the UK that doctors/hospitals have to follow - if you can work out how the hospital is meant to treat you in the NICE guidelines and start dropping this into conversations ie the NICE guidelines say X then the hospital has to listen to you.

Did your blood test show higher than average liver results? if yes then drs should be considering Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography to check for gallstones.

Diagnostic tests | Diagnosis | Gallstones | CKS | NICE

Suspecting gallstone disease | Diagnosis | Gallstones | CKS | NICE

from the NICE website:

• Some people with gallstone disease do not have classical symptoms or signs and present with mild and varied symptoms such as indigestion, intolerance to fried or fatty food, or epigastric pain.
• Consider gallstone disease in any person with any abdominal symptom that is not confirmed to be due to another cause.

as well as:

• An abdominal ultrasound examination — this may confirm the presence of one or more gallstones.
• The absence of stones on an ultrasound scan does not exclude their existence.

Not an expert but doesn’t sound like you should be discharged. Can you ask for a second opinion using Martha’s law?

Don't do this. AI simply summarises a lot of Internet hot air and scares people. Press for a proper diagnosis and proper pain relief.
And don't get your medical advice from here.

Cauda equina?

Why on earth the fact that it's not gynae related a reason to discharge you?How about all the other things that can cause these symptoms? Are these somehow irrelevant just because they're not gynae related? It doesn't make any sense.

This was me last week. Kidney stone lodged in my urethra blocking my kidney and became infected. Never felt pain like it and came on so suddenly. I had a stent fitted and iv antibiotics. But nothing touched the pain, codeine, morphine nothing and I was being sick too. Definitely ask them to check
for stones x

This is what I was thinking. Cauda equina syndrome is a medical emergency and causes you to be incontinent. Ask the question OP. Hope you feel better soon. 💐

I was going to go out on a limb here and suggest it could it be a pedunculated fibroid that's twisted ? ( I had that and it was very painful) However, I see you've had a transvaginal scan and all looks normal.

No other ideas.

Hope you feel better soon x

It sounds like gallbladder to me. I went to A&E with horrific pain which I’d had for 24 hours but was sent home with a kidney infection. 5 days later I could hardly walk and ended up on a drip for a week and emergency gallbladder removal.

Pain sounds absolutely classic for ureteric colic.
What scan did they do?
Non-contrast CT KUB to diagnose and find the little bugger.
Hope you’re feeling better soon.

Gallstones, kidney stones, kidney infection, diverticulitis or spinal would be my guesses

Ru on MJ sounds like gallstones

FIL went for a wee a couple of years ago and minutes later was sweating with pain, couldn't walk or move and then couldn't urinate. It was kidney stones and they'd lodged somewhere when he went for a wee.

That's exactly what happened to me when I discovered my gallbladder needed to come out. Usually can be diagnosed with a simple ultrasound

Sounds like my daughter who had this with gallstones and had her gallbladder removed

This. Scans only showed “free fluid” nothing else.

It’s generally reckoned to be an absolute nightmare trying to persuade the surgeons to actually see a woman of childbearing age with abdo pain. They always claim it must be a gynae problem. Misogyny in medicine.