I am feeling very let down and fustrated by being left in pain with no diagnosis
Has anyone else had similar symptoms to this as I am at a loss what to do. I am an experienced nurse and can't pin point what this is and the Drs seem stumped too.
I have had right shoulder pain that gradually worsened over a week, and started radiating to my right chest. I took the usual pain killers of Paracetamol, Ibruprofen and added Codeine. However the pain wasn't controlled.
I was woken up early hours of Thursday night with crushing pain to my right shoulder and chest, i fekr lile my body was in a vice. I called 111 and was advised to go to ED.
ED gave 10Mg IV morphine which only dulled the pain. I could not sit down and was restless having to constantly reposition to try and relieve the pain. After 4 hours in ED I continued to ask for pain relief and the pain was still unbearable. The nurse was ablut to give me some more morphine when the Dr walked over without introduction and told her to take it away as nothing was nothing was wrong with me and I was to be discharged. I was crying and this point as in so much pain, and had not been examined by a Dr at all. He told me my ECG, chest x ray and bloods and observations were normal. Therefore didn't need to be there. I questioned why so had so much pain in that case, he briefly examined me then came back with a discharge letter and a prescription of just 2 co codamol tablets!! I was in so much pain I was incoherent and could barely walk to the taxi to go home.
I went straight to the GP, who again examined shoulder, heart, lungs abdomen and found nothing wrong and sent away with Co codamol. I was sign posted to go back to ED if I have another severe pain attack. Which after the last time is the last thing I want to do!
Before this I hadn't visited the GP for over 5 years, never been in hospital or even had an ECG. As a nurse I would never go to ED unless it was necessary but was in the most severe pain of my life but was made to feel like a time waster .
I'm now off sick from work on co codamol which is not managing my pain but feeling it is pointless to go back to the Dr - Help!
What would you do? I feel let down, should I complain, should I back to the GP until I get a diagnosis?