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Re: ER visit
From: Sarah (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Aug 28 20:32:02 2006
I am so sorry to hear about your day. I ended up at the ER three times
before I was diagnoised with endo. and Motrin is going to do nothing! I
always have strong medication my obgyn prescribes me for the days where
I am double over in pain. I suggest you keep some sort of medication on
you for those days otherwise it will be a long day, i learned the hard
way....I hope you dont have another day with the pain you had today!
At Mon, 28 Aug 2006, anonymous@obgyn.net, wrote:
>
>UGGGGH. I thought that maybe I could ward off my evil period by
>skipping the placebo pills and going into the next pack. NOT.I took the
>last Zovia and Prometrium Saturday night and then took Loestrin 24 FE
>last night. Starting on Sat, I was having pain in that same familiar
>place but it was early. Usually doesn't start till around Monday
>morning. It was increasing and it really hurt, but I thought too soon
>for this. Then I decided I was going to skip into the next pack and
>avoid a period. My body had other plans. Was taking lots of Motrin.
>But was ok. Then this afternoon I was really hurting. I started
>bleeding. So much for skipping into teh next pack. So I called my ob's
>office, (he is on vacation till after labor day) Now he has two midwives
>and a NP who have RX writing privileges. I was really hurting at this
>point. I got the nice nurse. Well she used to be the nice nurse. She
>lectured me on how I should have asked my OBGYN for a rx at my last
>visit (How the hell am I supposed to know when he is going on vacation?
>Every month I hope it will be better, so I don't ask for pills in
>advance. He doesn't give me refills on them unless I call in). Then
>she lectured me on how my body has to get use to taking the pill and
>that every body is different. That I keep switching (MY DR SWITCHES THE
>PILL NOT ME< I HAVE ONLY ASKED TO SWITCHED ONCE AND THAT WAS WHEN HE PUT
>ME ON LOVRIA WHICH IS THE SAME THING AS SEASONALE) Then she told me she
>didn't have anyone who would or could write me that rx for Darvocet (she
>made me feel like a druggie for asking!). She asked me if I had tried
>Motrin. DUH. She really made me feel like I was a nuisance and not a
>real issue. I don't know why she got into this but she said well he
>gave you samples of the BCP (loestrin) and I said yes 4 months worth.
>She said you won't be even through with the 1st pack and you already
>have an appt with him on the 7th. I said yes I had questions for him
>from my last appt. She said well I don't see any point of you having
>THAT consultation. You don't need it. That is NOT when he told you to
>come in. I said no but I have questions that need to be answered and
>options that need to be gone over for that consultation and THAT is why
>I am having it. (This is the FIRST time I have ever made an appt
>outside of my intial appt when I was pregnant on my own. All of my
>other appts have been directed by him. We are talking two years worth
>of appts now). Then she said well try taking motrin before you go to
>bed. If you are REALLY still having a problem tomorrow morning call in
>and I will see if I can get someone who will write you a RX.
>
>I don't understand. My dr and his staff were great. This nurse made me
>feel like I was some druggie, minmized my pain, and made me feel like an
>idiot for calling. That I was bothering them. NOW I AM PISSED.
>
>I picked up my daughter an hour and 15 minutes after this call and by
>this point I was doubled over in pain in tears. The daycare teacher
>wanted to drive me home and I wouldn't let her because I live less than
>a mile away. I get home and my husband opens the front door to help me.
>He sees me and I am in tears from the pain. He says what is wrong and I
>tell him. He said did you call the drs office? I told him what
>happened. He said get in the car everyone. He took me to the ER and my
>daughters to his mothers. Once at the Er, they have me give a urine
>sample. Even though the waiting room is packed, they take me straight
>back. I had an awesome ER dr. As soon as she pressed on my right side
>I was in tears again and about to go througfh the roof. We went over my
>history. i didn't tell her what happened with the nurse, just that my
>dr was on vacation and I was out of pain killer. That we had been
>through all the tests, bloodwork, etc. That if she didn't belive me she
>could check the computer from January. She said she thought it sounded
>like endo. She said usually it is a process of elimination. But the
>period pain and ovulation pain were big indicators. The fact that my
>pain is in the same area every time. So she ordered me a big fat dose
>of Toradol as an antiinflammatory shot and a big fat dose of demerol. I
>am feeling much better. She also sent me home with a rx for 16 Darvocet
>which will get me through to next month. She held my hand and said
>hopefully this is the worst of it. She was fabulous! I wanted to hug
>her right then and there and thank her for believing me. She did talk
>to me about a lap and said that was the only way to diagnose it. She
>said my dr was probbably going through all of the medical stuff first
>and then the lap would be the next step. I told her I had the appt on
>the 7th and she said keep that appt. She said she wasn't a gyn but it
>definitely sounded like endo and sounds like everything else had been
>eliminated.
>
>I am home now and dh is getting my rx filled. I made darn sure that my
>OBGYN and my PCP got faxed records that I was in the ER. I know that
>the nurse will be calling tomorrow to see what happened. I am going to
>tell her that when you have a patient that has pain bad enough to cause
>them to double over and be in tears, motrin is NOT going to cut it. It
>was serious and it hurt like hell and I was not going to take motrin and
>deal with it. There is no way I could have gotten through a week
>without help. I'm just really pissed off right now that I know that
>there are OTHER people in that office who could have written me a rx and
>didn't and I had to end up in the ER.
>
>Now I have more stuff to discuss at that appt on the 7th that I
>apparently don't need!
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