GI issues take 2
Jul. 10th, 2021 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hypatia42Turns out I had a whole organ trying to kill me. One of the "fun" things about getting a medical zebra, EDS edition, is that the classical symptom presentation is often lacking due, ostensibly, to elasticity of connective tissue. This means when you call the nurse line with X symptoms they don't have any reason to think you might have an organ trying to go kill you. Now, had the nurse on said nurse line asked a few more questions she might have had the same puzzled look and desire for more answers than the urgent care could provide that the urgent care doc did. Luckily he did and sent me for acute diagnostic care where I got blood work, a urinalysis (kindly not a pregnancy test thank you), IV toradol, and a bag of fluids. I would havev gotten a CT that day but another medical zebra condition, MCAS, means I'm sensitive to contrast. So I got sent home with Prednisone and orders to come back the next day.
The next day, it took another 4 sucks to get an IV placed. Everyone was looking at me in sympathy. A bloody hour it took!!! Then CTv and wait for results. Doc sucks her head in the door and says, "It's your appendix. You're going to the ER." Excuse?!! This does not fit into my plans. Can I say least leave the IV in drive I'm pretty sure there aren't any others in my arms that haven't been stuck in the past 24 hours??
So that's the story of how I got emergency surgery for the removal of a vestigial organ that decided to wage war on the rest of my body. I presented with atypical symptoms, upper middle GI pain, none in the lower right quadrant. Oh and the CT results showed my uterus as "unremarkable" despite being missing...
The next day, it took another 4 sucks to get an IV placed. Everyone was looking at me in sympathy. A bloody hour it took!!! Then CTv and wait for results. Doc sucks her head in the door and says, "It's your appendix. You're going to the ER." Excuse?!! This does not fit into my plans. Can I say least leave the IV in drive I'm pretty sure there aren't any others in my arms that haven't been stuck in the past 24 hours??
So that's the story of how I got emergency surgery for the removal of a vestigial organ that decided to wage war on the rest of my body. I presented with atypical symptoms, upper middle GI pain, none in the lower right quadrant. Oh and the CT results showed my uterus as "unremarkable" despite being missing...