Any ideas what this could be?

[CheeryAlmond]

I'm 29, have been on the desogestrel pill for over a year now (no periods at all) and am sexually active with my partner.

Last night, I was really really sick. I vomited everywhere and started to feel quite hot and cold. Woke up at about 5am drenched in sweat. Went back to sleep and woke up again at 9 and I was completely covered in blood.
Thinking it was just a period, I put a tampon in and forgot about it.

I soaked through the tampon (heaviest flow) in 20 minutes.

Went to the toilet to change it and passed two massive (size of a golf ball) clots, then suddenly got extreme pains in my stomach - radiating up my back to my shoulder. I'm honestly in the worst pain ever.

My heart is going really fast, I feel freezing but my body feels hot, I can't stop shaking.
I'm frightened, I don't know what's going on with me.

Tried to go the walk in centre, but you need an appointment and they've got none today.

My dad is here at the minute and he doesn't do fuss (especially when it comes to illness). My partner told my dad to take me to the hospital (as he's working) but my dad isn't having it and I don't feel well enough to drive myself.

Has anyone got any ideas about what this could be and whether I need the hospital or not? I don't know what to do.
Thank you

(I apologise if this doesn't make sense, I'm in a lot of pain.)

Op I’m raging for you. Thank goodness for you, but also that dr that it wasn’t life threatening or he would have much explaining to do!
Have you thought about contacting PALS?

Ah the old 'it's just a period'.

I had this years ago (likely ruptured cyst) and the local hospital told me it was just a period. I was tachycardic and losing clots the size of golf balls.

Drove to another hospital 30 mins away where I ended up in for a week and on various meds, very very close to needing a blood transfusion.

I also had it, I was heamorghing after my daughter, and the hospital doctor said to me “do you normally use tampons and just don’t know what a period looks like.?”

And she was a woman too. She also wrote to my gp and said “this woman is having a period, if you do not know how to deal with periods, then please call for advice and do not Emergancy admit her again”

I was sent home and then rushed back in the next day and spent a month in total in hospital.

Curiously it was the male doctor who tried to prevent it. He told her not to release and thought I should be prepped for surgery. She refused and said it was just a period. The next day when I was rushed back he apologised and said because he was junior to her, she had dismissed his opinion.

Glad you are feeling better. It might be worth contacting PALS in a letter or email just to say how poor you were treated before you saw the gynae consultant and the delay in getting a scan. If nothing else then hopefully it will highlight the need for training and best practice. Copy in the consultant too.

@Bluntness100

I also had it, I was heamorghing after my daughter, and the hospital doctor said to me “do you normally use tampons and just don’t know what a period looks like.?”

And she was a woman too. She also wrote to my gp and said “this woman is having a period, if you do not know how to deal with periods, then please call for advice and do not Emergancy admit her again”

I was sent home and then rushed back in the next day and spent a month in total in hospital.

Curiously it was the male doctor who tried to prevent it. He told her not to release and thought I should be prepped for surgery. She refused and said it was just a period. The next day when I was rushed back he apologised and said because he was junior to her, she had dismissed his opinion.

Did you complain?

This is awful.

OP I'm glad you're in the right place and surgery is not necessary for now.

Ffs! I had to wait 24 hours when I had an ectopic for a scan. Then 72 hours to be operated on. It's just not on, why won't doctors believe us when we tell them there's something wrong with our bodies?
OP, I'm glad you are now being treated. I hope you feel better soon

Do they seriously think women make this stuff up and go to hospital and pretend to be ill just for fun or attention? It absolutely beggars belief.

I would complain to PALS too when you are feeling stronger. Don't copy the doctor n question in on the letter as it gives them a chance to cover their backs by the time PALS talks to them about it.

I hope you feel much better soon.

@CheeryAlmond pleased to hear you are starting to feel better 💐

Thank you for the update, I have been thinking of you
Hope you are up and about again soon

Did you complain?

No, it didn’t even occur to me, and the rest of the staff were good, well apart from one. Quite honestly I was too ill.

I did see her a couple of weeks later as she was on the ward and I was walking to the loo or somewhere and she just looked at me. We locked eyes, and she looked down,

I think thr moral is it’s not just men who do this to women, it’s other women.

Just wondering how you are doing now, @CheeryAlmond

I'm home finally. On pain relief still, fortunately didn't need surgery.

Have been told that any sudden,sharp pain/spike in temp.. and I must go straight back in.

Still all a bit crap, at least I'm home.

I'm going to make a complaint about the way I was treated at the beginning. It was dreadful to be fobbed off while feeling so crappy.

Thank you all for caring so much, it really means a lot to me. Especially when I was at my lowest.

💐

I hope you are getting the chance to rest and recover

Ah I'm so glad you're home and ok