health: May 2008 archives
Another Trip to the ER!
[ rakaur on Wed May 14 at 06:16 PM // category: drugs, health, life, pain ]
I ran out of medicine, and I was doing alright for a week or so but then it started hitting me hard. Last night it was bad, and then all of a sudden started shooting down my left leg (which it has never done before) and it was awful. I started feeling sick and having the usual bowel issues that accompanies my symptoms. I didn’t want to go, because they never do anything for me, but I didn’t know what else I could do, so I went to the ER.
I got there and did the usual questions and they took me straight to the back. Walking was painful. As soon as I got back there a doctor came in and I gave him the symptoms and a brief history and the first thing he said is “it’s weird that your ESR and CRP are normal… but have you heard of ankylosing spondylitis?” That makes like four or five people that have suggested it. He told me to forget my regular doctors and go see a rheumatologist. He asked me what medicine I had and was appalled that all I take is naproxen. He gave me a shot of hydromorphone (Dilaudid) which totally took the pain away, and he gave me a script for a handful of Vicodin. I was almost in tears I was so relieved.
I tried to call my PCP to make an appointment with a rheumatologist but apparently there aren’t any at my hospital. That means I’d have to pay upfront for one. I really don’t know what I’m supposed to do about this. I’m now accepting PayPal donations (only partly joking I’m afraid).
I’m unsure what to do. Fingers crossed I guess.
-- rakaur // 2008.05.14 @ 06:16 PM
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