(12-19-2019, 01:44 PM)Plmnb Wrote: [quote pid='324772' dateline='1576776888']
I hesitate to just complain because people can (and have) accused me of having 'other health issues' or they imply its some mental problem.
I am a new member. Joined this month. I sometimes feel like I am posting too much or posting things people don't care about. I'm pretty sensitive and a few times I have felt like I have annoyed one or another poster.
BUT, for the majority of replies I am very grateful. I believe I have already made great progress in getting the proper treatment. (My journey goes back a little over 7 years).
The most important thing I want to say is this:
From the time I was 10 years old I would complain about my back hurting. I would even go to visit my grandmother and tell her I had to sleep on the floor because it hurt my back too much to sleep on a the bed. I didn't have the pain 24 hours a day/7 days a week, but pretty often.
I saw many, many doctors over the years. I had a dr. tell me it was a "female" problem, I had a dr. tell me it was allergies...even had surgery on my nose,
I even had a dr. tell me it was in my head.
As I got into my 30s and 40s there were times that the pain would hit me and I wanted to kill myself. Sometimes the pain would not be just in my back, but in my chest so that I thought I was having a heart attack.
The only things that would help were long hot showers, drinking, and other stuff.
Finally, on my birthday one year I was at dinner at my in-laws. I couldn't even sit up. I went to the ER, again..this time a miracle. The ER dr. said he thought he might know what was wrong. They did an ultrasound on me and it turned out I had
MASSIVE gallstones. So big that they called in other techs to see. They asked me if I had ever heard of the Hope diamond.
I had major surgery, out of commission for a month.
Side note: years later I "diagnosed" a couple of other people, including my own daughter. When she was about 11 or 12 she would wake up in the middle of the night in agony. Just like me. I told her dr. The dr. said "enh" she would take a look next time my daughter got a UTI. Long story short...dr. called my husband, told him not to tell me...but I was right! Gallstones.
Bottom Line: Fight for your right to get the RIGHT answer!!!!!
Plmnb
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