what the heck is this?!

[ktbabe]

So yesterday i developed an intense pain in my lower left side, right down below. I kind of thought it might be a cyst that burst or something as i have had ovarian cysts in the past (although they never gave me issues). I called nhs direct to get advise as it really hurt even walking i was in agony..they advised me to go to a&e. Went there and they told me i needed antibiotics as they thought it was a bladder infection and that i would need to see my gp.

Got an appointment with my gp later that day who seemed to think it was some sort of pelvis infection possibly from a burst cyst so gave me 2 different types of antibiotics and sent me on my way.

last night i was in agony and the pain spread all the way across to the right side and then moving up to just below my ribs. Today the pain is right at the top of my abdomen in the middle mostly and seems to have eased down the bottom. it hurts when i breathe in, when i move, when i lie down, stand up and even when i eat. the pain also seems to radiate into my back. it feels like i have been punched really hard in that area (but i havent been injured there at all). if this was an infection of the pelvis/bladder/burst cyst...would the pain spread to the top of my abdomen?

(oh if its any relevance, i had my gallbladder removed 11 years ago so i know its not gallstones)

Appendicitis? Have you a temp? Nausea or vomiting?

Poor you.

kt...you still get gall stones even though you have had your gall bladder out. It just means that there is no storage area (ie the gall bladder) for the stones to be stored where they get bigger. You can still pass smaller stones at any time. I had mine out last year and i thought the same as you till i spoke to my consultant.

KTbabe

A & E certainly have their place but you should have been put on the gynaecology ward when you arrived there. This was outside their remit.

Do not let yourself be mucked around further with in ignorance (this does not sound at all like a bladder infection).

I would return to the GP and insist on an urgent referral to a gynae and do not take no for an answer. Pelvic pains like this should always be properly investigated; you have clearly not been properly investigated to date but have been fobbed off instead.