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| | From:  wabbushon (Original Message) | Sent: 10/24/2008 5:20 AM |
After a hellish, humilating, tramatic, so bad, it's actually funny. A panel of drs. decided the only thing wrong with me is malnutrition from my bad diet for the past year [what diet?] I'd quit eating bit by bit for a year, then totally lost my appetite and hadn't eaten at all in 3 months.
Going back to the beginning, around a year ago, I went to my dr. to discuss the cyclic vomiting syndrome. I even wrote it down for him. He threw a manic fit, threw it back in my face without reading it and told me to go to a psychiatrist.
So, wondering why they gave me a dr. that doesn't actually practice, and quit taking medicaid patients immediately after me. So, I searched for a new dr. and none are accepting new medicaid patients. About a year later pain in my lower back and stomach and neuropathy drove me to go the the ER for something for pain. Well, I told the dr. the long story about the syndrome, and he basically laughed at me. But, they started sucking the blood out of me and taking tests. And, he put me on an i.v. He pointed out that one is iv fluids, one is an antibiotic and this one, he says, is a nausea medicine, called something, but I didn't catch the name. He wanted me to stay overnight to give me potassium, but, teed off about not getting anything for pain, I told him I could take them at home, bought a cab home for $20 and, spent another night in pain. A few days later, I was driven to back to Dr. Wacky, who after a coupla days sent to a clinic, who wouldn't see me because dr. wacky can't admit people to a hospital, and they sent met back to ER, where I allowed myself to be admitted, but after 3 days I was so disgusted, that when the dr. wouldn't let me out, I did an AMA. Stayed home a coupla days and went back. The nurse gave me morphine for the pain, which I've never had before, and it wasn't long before I had to jump up and barf. I made the comment that it just broke my record of not barfing for 2 weeks. I realized that the nausea medicine worked. A nausea medcine that actually works. Do you know what that means? If I had given that med. a year ago, none of this would have happened. One of the things I found out is that for some of us, the fear of vomiting everyday makes us paranoid of food, because you think everything you eat will make you sick, and eventually you totally lose your appetite and go 3 weeks without any food at all, like I did. A med that actually works. I almost died, I may still die I'm not afraid of death. As a matter of fact, I wore a do not resusitate bracelet. Trust me, I'd rather die then wake up in that hospital again. It will take months to recover, I can barely stand or walk. It's been a year of hell. And, there is a med that works.
If I'd been given that med a year ago none of this would have happened. I still haven't gotten sick since then. Have to relearn to eat food, but I'm not afraid of it, anymore. I stared down at that pineapple chunk and said you can't hurt me. and, salads, and dairy products. It was never the food.
I just have to avoid salt until the swelling in my feet and legs go down, if ever. I love salt.
And, I'm not in the mood for other's people's horror stories right now. Sorry. I'll write the whole story someday, It's so bad, it's funny.
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Get well Wabby  . I hope you get the treatments you need and are feeling better very soon. Blessed Be, --Badger |
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