What’s wrong with me, hospital clueless

[elm26]

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?

I havent said it doesnt exist and I dont know any doctors. What are you talking about?

Yes @bigboykitty has made a bit of a tit of herself

Yes this is what I had, discharged despite being in pain and apparently gallstone stuff, only months later to be told no gall stones despite some scans saying I did have them. What happens to these things I wonder

And no proper pain control

Mine was too big to shift anywhere, but I understand small gallstones can be passed out of the body.

This isnt true, its the bullshit they spout to make you go away. MRI will give them a much better idea of where the endo is.

It need not be gynaecological. Kidney stone? They hurt like hell. They could check for bowel problems too.

Exactly. It’s nonsense to say to refuse to leave or to demand this or that test.

I haven’t read anymore messages but quick update I got home and had a bath and collapsed in our bedroom, ambulance called I was sick again and screaming in pain I don’t remember a great deal other than my 3 year old screaming, being at hospital and being refused gas and air and morphine then I was on an operating table and I woke up 20 minutes ago on oxygen and all different machines. I’ve got 3 laparoscopic cuts and I’m bleeding vaginally. Nobody has spoke to DH either they called him at midnight to let him know I’m stable and on the ward and they’d talk to
us today and wouldn’t tell him anything over the find so now I’m really scared and confused from all the painkillers. My blood pressure is 83/42 and says 88 with oxygen.

Sorry id that doesn’t make sense

@elm26 hopefully they'll give you a clear explanation today.

being at hospital and being refused gas and air and morphine then I was on an operating table and I woke up 20 minutes ago on oxygen and all different machines. I’ve got 3 laparoscopic cuts and I’m bleeding vaginally

huh? So you were given a general anaesthetic and underwent an operation? What op?

Wishing you well and hoping that you get some answers today

Clearly you were not alright to be discharged! I'm sorry you were not treated appropriately in the first place and I hope that the findings turn out to be something fixable. If you have the strength later on, consider making a complaint that they discharged you when you were still in considerable pain that they hadn't found a cause for

I hope you get some answers today. Your poor experience has made matters even more traumatic.

Make a request for your notes as soon as possible.
Difficult to think properly when you are so unwell.
Get OH to take notes as much as possible.
You may need these.

If you are unwell and you know it, then you are, tests can only do so much. If nothing can be found it does not mean nothing is wrong. It means they have not found the issue. They are not looking for the right thing. Pain like this is not normal.
And clearly something is not right.
The question is what?

Hopefully the surgery you underwent yesterday will have gotten to the source of your pain. Your husband was called and you were backon the ward at midnight.

You've just woken today and the doctors will be around to tell you what has happened shortly, hopefully. I hope you're comfortable now at least.

I think the OP is saying she has woken up from the morning 20 minutes ago. The OP's DH was told she was stable at midnight, so presumably she had the op in the very late evening last night.

It sounds like the type of marks my daughter had after having her appendix out, the pain also sound quite similar (she had a ruptured cyst on her ovary which was contributing to the pain)

Curiouser and curiouser.

Do they still keep notes at the end of the bed?

Notes haven't been at the end of beds for years - data protection risk if anyone can pick them up.

OP, I hope you get answers when the doc comes to see you. I agree with PP about getting your husband to take notes - and both of you should write down everything you remember about your treatment up to the previous discharge. Use this thread as a reminder.