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What’s wrong with me, hospital clueless

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elm26 · 26/03/2026 15:24

Yesterday at 1pm, I put my 6 month old on the rug with his toys and went for a wee.

As I was walking back I had a sudden severe pain in my right side radiating into my lower back and up to my shoulder, I was in agony.

I called DH who was luckily only on a job 15 mins away, he came straight home and took one look at me and called ambulance, I was shouting out in pain they gave me gas and air and morphine.

I had an emergency CT when dye last night and also have a catheter as lost the ability to wee. Nothing showed on CT, they got me settled on morphine and today I’ve had a transvaginal scan which shows ovaries and womb look normal.

Gynae can’t find a reason so they’ve stopped painkillers and just giving me paracetamol but somethings wrong I feel like somebody’s twisting my insides. The gynae consultant was horrible and said the surgical team will come see me if they think it’s worth it?? So I’m waiting for that if they come.

I’m in so much pain and genuinely scared they’ll send me home not knowing what is wrong with me.

Has anyone has anything similar?

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SoloCat · 26/03/2026 15:32

I lost count of the amount of times I went into retention and had to go to A&E for a catheter. Also had severe pain, given morphine too. Nothing showed up in tests and it turned out to be an embedded UTI.
I know how frustrating it can be to have something as painful as you are experiencing and to not be taken seriously. I do hope you get some answers, definitely keep pushing as pp mentioned.

JulietteHasAGun · 26/03/2026 15:30

Shoulder pain is often referred from gynae/abdominal type area. It’s why you often get shoulder pain after gynae procedures. Are you weeing ok now? Bowels open? Passing wind?

BillieWiper · 26/03/2026 15:28

Can you do a bowel movement? Could it be a volvulus, which is twisted bowel? It can feel like it's affecting repro organs or bladder etc sometimes? Is your belly very swollen?

Did they scan lower GI?

I'm sorry you're going through this and hope they find out what's wrong x

knackeredmumoftwo · 26/03/2026 15:28

I've had a burst ovarian cyst- agony but nothing to see on scans

Canopop · 26/03/2026 15:27

Have they done blood tests? It’s not kidney stones is it? Are they doing any more scans?

OhBotherSaidPoo · 26/03/2026 15:27

Gosh how scary.

Have you tried running your symptoms through AI as a starter for 10.

tipsyraven · 26/03/2026 15:25

Not had anything similar but stick to your guns and refuse to be discharged until the surgical team see you.

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