I ended up in the emergency room, and stuck in the hospital for several days. It was the same thing that happened to me last Easter, and then again, not long after coming home from that. I got very severe pains in my lower stomach and had to the rushed to the hospital. After CAT scans, Ultrasounds, HIDA scans and an EGD, they still can't be sure what is wrong, and ultimately released me.
The EGD is where they put a scope down the throat to examine the interior of the esophagus and stomach. The HIDA scan is where they inject you with a radioactive isotope and put you under a scanner to watch how your blood flows from organ to organ. In my case, they were watching the liver, gall bladder, small intestine and pancreas. I had to lie perfectly still under the scanner for two full hours.
So, I went to the ER on Monday around 9:30 PM, and didn't get out of the hospital until Thursday at 3:00 PM. Like before, they told me it is not my appendix, not my gall bladder, not my stomach, and not my liver, and though my pancreas was a slightly off, that it could not cause the severe level of pain I had, nor would it be where I felt it. I am where I was last Easter - knowing what it isn't, but not knowing what it is. Oh, and I've even had scopes rammed up my tail hole to figure things out, no less than five times now! At least they don't get their throat scopes and butt scopes mixed up!
This is way past frustrating and scary, since I've now been in the emergency room three times for the exact same thing. Each time, they emphasized that coming in was good, because I could have died from the symptoms I was having. And, I am told, if the pain comes back, that I'm supposed to go immediately to the emergency room again! Eating doesn't seem to cause it. Not eating doesn't seem to cause it. It's just plain frustrating.
Being stuck in a hospital for several days, on a clear liquid diet, is definitely not my idea of a good time!
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02 Mar 2018 12:18 CET
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