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Hi, All. Yesterday morning, about 10 a.m. so, and while working, I started to get what felt like gas pains in the abdomen but onlly from the umbilicus down (it did go all the way across and ended up causing a mild backage - no pain any further. They were constant and unrelenting, No relief. I took to gas pills, wated a littlle while, took 2 more, pain getting worse. I had 3 ways of describning the pain: 1. The (minimal) paring knife pain - hurts, only about enough to make you yelp a little (i'm not a screamer when get I hurt, I usually let out a cuss word and move on. OFtentimes, the Cussword is long, made up and ends up sounding ridiculous.l but one cuss word usually does the trink. I think when I broke u. Then were was the last pain - the burning torch pain. My pain was b/l, lower quad, but the burning torch pain was specifically related to the baddder area whenver palpated, no matter how lightly.
Well, day 2 of this new illness here, I'm 42 years old,, never had a child (though lifting way too many boxes too have for me made my uterus prolapse) and now I've got a new problem.
I did a bunch of those
OK, little hx:
incon
PMH
Lowered seizure threshold, broken foot, sepsis twice last summer, etc.
PSH
1. T&A
2. Diagnostic laparoscopy for infertrility.
3. Same as #2.
5. Lap Chole.
6. Partial abld hysterectomy. I retained ovaries since I was only 40.
7. Repair of rotator cuff where mesh covdrfed area of missing cervix.
SOH
No drinking, no drugs, smoke 1 PPD.
Family Hx:
Grandmother with SLE and rheumatoic arhtritis, died in her early 60s, htn (thoser mine is awesome), hypercholsterolemia (mine's great too and they even repeat the HDL evey time because they think the machine iw rong). Mom with lots of back issues, has had neuro Sx on both neck and LS spine. I already several bulging disks.
Review of system:
General: WDWNWF, 5'4", 1`15 lbs. HEENT - terrible eyesight since chiild hood, wear contacts. HEENT okay. Heart: By MP ususally runs pretty low, around 104/40 or so unless i'm in pain, which is uusally the reason I go see the doctor.
For obvious reasons, rest of PE deferred.
Went to ER after 3 people made me go. Was going to wait it out (why not - waited out blader infection 1o days and broken foot 5 days) but I called the nurse from my ins. and she told me to go there immediately. Went, got evaluated. CT ab/pel. I've had bladder stones but no stones in kidneys or ab. The CT showed an extremely large bladder. One may think nothing of this finding, but I's had other tests done and each indicated I have a "rather small bladder" (I think my male pug was born with something simillar - a 2 inch intestive - LOL). Findings so far are enlarged bladder, no stones, and then the ER doc says to me "As far as your urinalysis, it is way out of this word and I don't know wha tto say abut it, whatever that means.
Ideas anyone?
Thanks!
Tammy