A couple of weeks ago, shortly after Thanksgiving, I took this diet pill to help my fat bum lose weight, right? Well, I started having this pain in my back right under my right shoulder blade, kind of radiating under my arm pit. My first thoughts were OMG, my kidneys!! So, I drank even more water and cranberry juice to rid myself of the damaging diet pills and to feel better. The pain only increased, it did not go away and it hurt for about 4 days when I called to make an appointment with the Dr.

 

So, I go in and tell him about my problems and he started pushing on my stomach and OUCH!! It hurt and he listened to me breathe and pushed on my sore back a little. He ask me had I been working out, because he knows I was trying to lose weight(hence the diet pills), and of course I said yes, because I had been.

He decides to do a urine analysis and a back x-ray. The urine test is clean but there was a slight problem with my x-ray. Okay, if you are squeemish, stop reading now...

 

My bowels were clogged up and he asked had I been constipated... I said, no more than normal!! He laughed and said it was normal for women to be irregular and prescribed me a muscle relaxer and a laxative. He told me he was going to treat the pain as a strained muscle and help me return to regular with the medicines he gave. Told me to take it easy, not to lift any thing over 15 pounds and to drink lots of water. I already drink tons of H2O so I said no problem.

 

He told me to call him back in a week if the pain had not relinquished itself and he would order an ultrasound of my gall bladder... :(

I went with it. I do not believe it was a muscle because I played most major sports as a child and teenager and know that familiar pain of sore muscles. Still, I went with it and said ok.

 

Now, it has been a week since I saw him and the pain has decreased, but has not gone away. I notice the pain more after meals, and before bedtime. It is a radiating pain under my right arm and under my right should blade. It hurts randomly, seemingly for no reason, and is a sharp intense pain... Then it fades away until the next time it decides to grace me with it's presence.

 

I have not called him yet because I feel like I am just delaying the inevitable...on purpose. I don't want to have an ultrasound...They are expensive. I don't want to have surgery because I am starting Uni this semester and I can't miss school. But, I need to take care of myself... AHHH!!

What do I do???

 
   

 


 
 
tchmymndisback on
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Call the doctor. Don't wait, it may still not be that big of a deal, but could get worse.

mythoutsonit on
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You think so?? I think I trust you since you are a MOM of many more years than I... Thanks,
tchmymndisback on
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well, hubby and I don't have insurance, so everytime something comes up we just want to wait it out, and more often then not it's just gotten worse, and ends up costing more money.
mythoutsonit on
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Yeah, that sucks. One of my friends at school was really sick last semester and we told her to go to the Dr and she did not have insurance. Finally she went and she said that was the best $175 she ever spent..
tchmymndisback on
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Thats how I feel when I have had a bladder infection, and even a few months ago had a peice of glass in my eye,i didn't know till I finally decided to go to the eye doctor and found that it had scratched the crap out of my cornea. I walked out of there feeling like it was the best 200 bucks spent. But, we still have some medical bills still to pay. It sucks.
mythoutsonit on
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Man, that is nuts.. I cannot believe you had something in your eye like that... WOW!
tchmymndisback on
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Yeah it was, I woke up feeling like I sometimes do, and needing to rub my eyes. It bothered me more so I tried to get what I thought was some "sleep" out. couldn't find anything, I laid back down, hoping it would be gone when I woke back up. Nope, by now my eye is read and burning, and I thought I had pink eye. I played with it so much that I moved it across my eye, and it stuck in the corner of my eyelid on the inside, so the second have of the day I was in so much, I couldn't move my eye, it had to stay straight, cause then I had sharp sharp pain that just made me bawl. The sun was blinding, so I had to keep it covered, even inside, but especially out. I just finally decided I had to go in, something was not right, I had cried for hours. I walked out of the office feeling SO much better. But it made me and those around me, think twice about rubbing our eyes. Never felt pain so aweful before, and I gave birth 3 times and have been in two serious accidents lol.
mythoutsonit on
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ewww... ouch!
sissygirl12 on
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You should definitely go to the doctor! It could turn out to be something that really needs attention.
I know what it feels like to miss something in school. And it sucks. I had a lump in my breast and I put off getting it checked for months, thinking that it would go away...it didn't and I finally had to go to the doctor. I even ended up having to have surgery to get it removed and missed the first two days of my classes last semester. It sucked, but I'm glad I went. The lump was benign, but it could have not been, then I would have been S.O.L.
mythoutsonit on
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I know. That is scary, I gues I am delaying it because I know what it could be...
sissygirl12 on
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I know exactly what you mean...I knew that it could potentially be really bad...so I just let it go..

 
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