WIBU to never tell the neighbours why I was admitted to hospital last night?

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I've realised the title sounds very ominous. It's not. Bear with, bear with.

So yesterday evening, with a 2 year old in bed and newborn twins on my lap, I started to notice a stabbing pain low in my tummy. Within ten minutes my boyfriend had had to remove said offspring from me while I crawled naked upstairs in agony. And ten minutes after this he was ringing an ambulance because I was mute with pain.

By the time I came downstairs for said ambulance, he had half the contents of our local pub in our kitchen taking orders on how to look after our brood, while I hobbled into the pain van, guiltily knowing I was taking with me my EBF newborns' breakfast, lunch and dinner. And leaving my toddler to wake to the neighbourhood and its mum (literally) downstairs.

Well, upon arrival at hospital, the pain actually soon subsided. To the point that I was sent home.
It was passed off as a medical mystery, and we could relieve our kind friends and family of their duties (and allow them the resume the birthday house party my boyfriend had also interrupted in search of babysitters, and re-park the cars he'd rallied while waiting for the ambulance).

Well upon waking today, I've pottered about, still in pain, confused and a little concerned, and sent thank you messages around.

Everyone went out about an hour ago, and left me with the newborns for a while. Thought I'd take the opportunity to go to the loo...

WIBU to never, ever tell the entire neighbourhood, the in laws, and my sweet, wharp speed boyfriend that it turns out it was all because of a massive poo?

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I must say I'm disappointed op.
I thought you were going to tell us. You did the loudest longest fart in front of a gorgeous Doctor.

Why not? It's HER home

Lol, well I didn't say it wasn't permitted, I simply was curious. No need to go on the attack, maybe find something else to be offended by, something real?

Fencesitter you posted "published statistics show for 2016, of the 23.7 million A&E attendances last years, something like 5 in 6 attendees were utterly pointless".

Please can you provide a link to the published report?

FenceSitter01

So should everyone in chronic, unexplained pain wait at home in case it's caused by poo? Sure, a few might die along the way, but think of the queues in a&e

You can google it devil just like I did 4 minutes ago

Congrats on your poo

I still remember my first post baby poo nearly 15 years ago. I cried.

Could have been worse. At least you didn't then call out the Fire Service having posting aforementioned poo between two panes of glass.

If anyone asks I'd just go with the 'lady problems' excuse as it usually deters further questioning.

Don't tell them! What a relief it wasn't anything more serious. I am normally very against people going to A&E unecessarily, but we cannot always tell what is causing us pain, and in the op's case it could have been much worse than a poo! A health scare that turns out to be something minor is not the same as irresponsibly wasting NHS resources.

"When I need an opinion mummymeuister I'll get it from someone qualified"

Me too, which is why if I had strange abdominal pains postpartum, I would seek the opinion of a qualified health professional. Like the op did.

...and my qualifications are what exactly FenceShitter01? ah that's right you don't know.

and if you don't want opinions, don't post on an opinion forum like MN then all your problems would be solved.

there is a world of difference between someone who has just given birth to twins have unexplained pain and people who pitch up because they cant be arsed to wait for a GP.

go on. ask a midwife. what if something had been left behind. septicaemia - oops there I go again using words I have no idea what they mean.

No need to go on the attack, maybe find something else to be offended by

I didn't 'go on the attack', nor was I offended.

Are you Miranda?

Just tell them it's 'womens problems'. Half won't want to hear and the other half will have enough empathy to not ask anything further.

Don't worry, it happens. I've been rushed to hospital with suspected appendicitis, which turned out to be severe period pain.

As for wasting A&E time. You weren't. What if it HAD been something more serious? The people who waste A&E time are the drunks who fall over,. bash each other or otherwise do stupid, dangerous things.

MummyMeister FenceShitter

No need to tell your neighbours and your secret is safe with us. Glad it wasn't anything more serious than it was.

FenceSitter, inappropriate post and inappropriate NN.

Aww op

I once laid on my bed one night in absolute agony in my stomach , felt absolutely shocking and couldn't move for pain ! I didn't know what to do . Dc asleep , no partner here , thought I'd just lay there and see if it went off

Fell asleep and then woke up and did the most epic turd . So that was that then !

*fencesitter" - because a visit doesn't result in an intervention doesn't mean it was pointless to go and checked out. What a ridiculous and potentially dangerous statement. There are all sorts of things that might be life threatening and the medical advice is to go to A&E, though of course one always hopes it turns out not to be the life threatening scenario.

Ooft I was almost in hospital with unexplained abdominal pain that was absolutely agonising and it did turn out to be wind. After a toot or two or was miles better. However no one knew what was causing it and it was absolutely horrendous so of course I'd go to hospital.

OP did they give you a laxative? Normally one of the first treatments for abdominal pain.

Ha ha! I'll join you in the ambulance calling hall of shame.

Ten minutes after the paramedics arrived and two hours after starting to writhe in agony, scream, sweat, go pale and floppy. My 5yo let rip a massive fart and was right as rain.....

Paramedics we're lovely and said I'd done the right thing.

An ambulance was called for my dad once thinking he was having a heart attack, turns out it was just particularly bad wind. The crew were rather jolly about it and said they would rather attend when people have pains like that and it just be wind, rather than people not call and in fact be having an actual heart attack.

Crapping can be a serious buisness. I was only sent home from a+e once on the premise that I promised to go straight back if I didn't crap within a short time frame so I could be admitted.

Yanbu. Tell no one for fear of twats like those exposed on this thread.

I went to hospital two days before my period aged 16 with sever pain in my abdomen. A and e referred me to a ward for observation. The sister of the ward berated me for being a silly little girl wasting her time with period pain. I left.

Three days later I was blue lighted back my appendix having burst with sever blood poisoning.

If in doubt and severe pain - hospital is the right place for you.

Hope you got out of bed first, clumsy!

I didn't 'go on the attack', nor was I offended

Ah, it was the electronically shouting HER that threw me,,,.

Fencesitter Going to A&E because you are experiencing extreme pain is not an instance of unnecessary use, even if it turns out to be nothing. Going to A&E because of a hangnail (a real life example) is.

The "necessity" of going to A&E is not determined by the outcome - it's determined by the seriousness of the discomfort and/or the potential diagnosis.

I ended up in hospital with the worst stomach pain I've ever had only to find out that it was colic. My brother laughed at me for going to hospital with wind, but it worse than labour pains.

Fence sitter isn't sitting on many fences today.

We took #2 son to the ER once for what turned out to be gas. He was crying in pain, and was vague about where the pain actually was, as we were concerned it might be his appendix. After an ultrasound, they found there was just a lot of trapped gas.