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i had a tooth filled yesterday. i'm alive. if i can make it through that, daunt can make it thru anything. oh yea, he's daunttless, he can make it through hell and back. so this is nothing for him. oh yea, daunt, how's that bi*** 1st grade teacher of mine doing down there? or did you forget to talk to her AGAIN???
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I have no idea. Heres the rundown, don't read it if you don't want details, seriously.
Sunday, Sept 22: Awoken from a deep sleep at 6:05am. I thought I had slept wrong and that it was back pain so I start exercising a bit to loosen up the muscles, partway thru my second spinal twist I realize its an excruciating, stabbing pain that I figured something had burst or was about to burst. My initial thought was kidney, but I was also concerned that my appendix had burst. Completely, off the charts excruciating pain. I rush to the ER, puking and going into shock from the pain, it was quite fun. I get to the ER, they assume kidney stone, they take me in for a quick CT scan, think they see a 3mm calcium stone. I'm on more drugs than I can name, demoral, toderal or something, levaquin, some other stuff but suffice to say nothing was affecting me, I'm still in excruciating pain so they give me HUGE doses. I'm naturally unaffected by such things, when I had my wisdom teeth out it took me like a minute/over a minute to pass out even though it was supposed to take 5-7 seconds. : ) So, by the afternoon all the pain meds are worn off, I feel fine, I know I'm not dying and I don't really care about the pain. The doctor wants to see if I can stay at home on oral pain meds until it passes, however the pain never comes back so I check myself out of the hospital, they get me some pain meds and some antibiotics and I go home.
Monday, Sept 23: After surviving the night, I wake up Monday in pain and start taking the meds. Discomfort keeps growing and growing, by Monday night I'm in excruciating pain but I just gut it out because I"m a sick bastard and because I think the kidney stone is passing. Well, after 7 hours of laying on my bathroom floor with a jug and a strainer for my urine, in excruiciating pain and puking, I decide that maybe its not coming out, and maybe I should get some help. : )
Tuesday, Sept 24: Its now technically Tuesday morning, so I go back to the ER, they dope me up and decide to put a stent in. A stent is a tube that they feed up the wang and into the kidney, not exactly the most appealing thing that you can present a young male with, however, the way its described to me the stent will only be in for a little while and it will get the stone out and that you're supposed to feel a million times better once its in, no pain, no discomfort, so I give them the go ahead. I get the stent in and they send me home. Total, complete, and unbelievable amounts of pain, but by now I"m pretty much used to it so I"m starting to desensitize. Oh yeah, earlier puking in the hospital, puking at the x-ray, blah blah blah.
Wednesday, Sept 25: So I go back to the urologist, puking in his office in terrible pain, not taking well to the stent at all. I go in, doctor takes some x-rays, says its in the right place and can't figure out why I'm in all sorts of pain, looks at me blankly and says "Well what do you expect me to do about it?" I'm like, you gotta be f-ing kidding me. So I request stronger pain meds, he's like "Oh, yeah, I guess we can do that." I head home with lortabs, puking, discomfort, popping pills like mad.
Thursday, Sept 26: After a day of suffering, still peeing in a plastic bottle and straining all my urine/blood, as it looked like hawaiian punch from all the blood, waiting for a stone to come out, by nighttime I just can't take it anymore, and let me tell you, I can take a ****load of pain. So, in excruciating, unending agony we call the ER again, we get a different urologist who I guess is the head of their practice or whatever and he says come in Friday for an 8am surgery and we'll take the stent out, I'm like, sounds good. I suffer thru the night Thursday because I don't feel like going to the ER, and go in Friday.
Friday, Sept 27: So, Friday I go in, get the stent out, specifically ask the doctor, did the stone come with the stent. No. Originally I thought the stent made the passage big enough for the stone to come out, but apparently it just dilates the tube so that the stone tumbles out when they pull the stent out. However, no dice. So, I'm feeling way, way, better after the stent is out, but I"m still not good. They hook me up with some perkisets and send me on my way. For the first time in a week, no puking, just excruciating amounts of pain. Yay for me.
Saturday, Sept 28: Discomfort that I know is actually lots of pain, I'm just completely desensitized, still don't feel well but I"m on a lot of perkiset.
Sunday, Sept 29: Discomfort that I know is actually lots of pain, I'm just completely desensitized, but I still don't feel well. However, determined to gut it out I stop taking the perkiset.
Monday, Sept 30: I go in for my follow up with the Urologist, still in pain, its just not excruciating. I'm tender and it causes pain when he pushes on my abdomen. He orders X-rays, I get them, no stone, all they see is a lot of gas in my system. WTF? No stone? WTF? So, he speculates that it might have came out with the stent, no dice, we asked the doctor specifically. So, then he speculates that maybe it was a Uric Acid stone and it doesn't show up on the X-ray. However, Uric Acid is due to a deficiency in the way your body processes, I sure as hell don't have a deficiency and the medicine that they give to dissolve Uric Acid stones raises your urine PH to over 7. My Urine is naturally over 7, so theres no way a stone could have ever formed in my system and now they can't see a calcium stone. So, they send me over to get another CT scan to see if I have a stone in there, because its much more definitive. No stone. So they continue to speculate its gone and I'm just having residual discomfort. I go out to eat on Monday night thinking I"m ok, not such a good plan, start to feel worse and worse, bloated, painful, but I suck it up and go home.
Tuesday, Oct 1: Pain and discomfort in my chest, stomach, spine, lower back, lower abdomen. I deal and go about my business, thinking that I'm on the road to recovery. The pressure in my chest is slowly increasing, but I just go about my business.
Wednesday, Oct 2: Yet again, awoken at 4:13am with excruciating pain in my chest, stomach, spine, lower back, lower abdomen. Major, major pain and pressure. I figure it was about as excruciating as the first day, but I had so much pain it just didn't seem to matter anymore. After the 7 hours on Monday I just wasn't feeling much pain anymore. I have a high tolerance and when added to all the pain I'd been in, I just couldn't feel it as much, however, by no means did I feel good or happy so its off to the ER again. I get to the ER, they order X-rays, all they see is a lot of gas in my system, no stone or anything. I go home. As the day goes on, I get more and more and more pain, to the point where its excruciating at night. Then, some family friends who all had gall bladder problems were like, that sounds exactly like the problems we had. My mother calls me and tells me what her friends tell her, I"m like, damn. Call the ER, they're like oh yeah, I guess that does sound like gall bladder problems, you should definitely come in here. Figures, does a single doctor EVER think of something that fits the diagnosis, nope. So, I go back in that night at about 10pm and stay till 2am. Lots of pain and discomfort. They get me an ultrasound, which let me tell you, it isn't nearly as fun when they're looking at your liver and gall bladder instead of a baby. : ) The test proves to be inconclusive, so I'm scheduled for a hydascan (sp?) the next day.
Today, Oct 3: I go back in to the hospital for the hydascan. A hydascan is a two part test where first they inject you with radioactive isotopes that are attached to liver enzymes, and then they stick you under a nuclear radiology machine and watch the isotopes, it lets them see how your body is functioning. The second part of the test they inject you with a chemical that makes your body think you've just eaten a big, greasy, disgusting meal with lots of dairy products, which triggers your gall bladder. They then watch to see how your gall bladder functions. Well, they inject me up and I get under the scanner and we wait, its supposed to take 20-30 minutes for the gall bladder to visualize, in rare cases 45-60. Well, at 20-30 minutes my liver was fully lit up, but no gall bladder, so we wait 15 more minutes, still only my liver is evident but there appears to be a bright spot where the tube leading to the gall bladder is. So they tell me to walk around for 15 minutes, and then they'll put me under the scanner again at 60 minutes to carry out the second part of the test. So I walk around for 15 minutes, come back, and they put me back under the scanner and my liver and small intestines are lit up, but still no sign of the gall bladder. So I fail, which is a good and bad thing. See, the gall bladder has to fill up with isotopes for them to be able to see how its functioning, however, since that test basically says I have no gall bladder, but yet, I know I do and one was clearly evident in the ultrasound, theres definitely a problem. : ) It can mean a number of things, the most common being that:a) my gall bladder is messed up and they have to cut it out.b) there is some sort of blockage, my gall bladder works fine but for some reason something got stuck in the duct, a calcification or something, or a gall stone. Blow up the blockage and go back to normal, or cut it out.c) theres some sort of blockage due to the fact that my gall bladder is ****ed up and they have to cut it out.
So pretty much, if its determined for sure that something is wrong with my gall bladder, I'm going in for surgery. Yay for me. Thats the whole saga thus far, any questions?
Sunday, Sept 22: Awoken from a deep sleep at 6:05am. I thought I had slept wrong and that it was back pain so I start exercising a bit to loosen up the muscles, partway thru my second spinal twist I realize its an excruciating, stabbing pain that I figured something had burst or was about to burst. My initial thought was kidney, but I was also concerned that my appendix had burst. Completely, off the charts excruciating pain. I rush to the ER, puking and going into shock from the pain, it was quite fun. I get to the ER, they assume kidney stone, they take me in for a quick CT scan, think they see a 3mm calcium stone. I'm on more drugs than I can name, demoral, toderal or something, levaquin, some other stuff but suffice to say nothing was affecting me, I'm still in excruciating pain so they give me HUGE doses. I'm naturally unaffected by such things, when I had my wisdom teeth out it took me like a minute/over a minute to pass out even though it was supposed to take 5-7 seconds. : ) So, by the afternoon all the pain meds are worn off, I feel fine, I know I'm not dying and I don't really care about the pain. The doctor wants to see if I can stay at home on oral pain meds until it passes, however the pain never comes back so I check myself out of the hospital, they get me some pain meds and some antibiotics and I go home.
Monday, Sept 23: After surviving the night, I wake up Monday in pain and start taking the meds. Discomfort keeps growing and growing, by Monday night I'm in excruciating pain but I just gut it out because I"m a sick bastard and because I think the kidney stone is passing. Well, after 7 hours of laying on my bathroom floor with a jug and a strainer for my urine, in excruiciating pain and puking, I decide that maybe its not coming out, and maybe I should get some help. : )
Tuesday, Sept 24: Its now technically Tuesday morning, so I go back to the ER, they dope me up and decide to put a stent in. A stent is a tube that they feed up the wang and into the kidney, not exactly the most appealing thing that you can present a young male with, however, the way its described to me the stent will only be in for a little while and it will get the stone out and that you're supposed to feel a million times better once its in, no pain, no discomfort, so I give them the go ahead. I get the stent in and they send me home. Total, complete, and unbelievable amounts of pain, but by now I"m pretty much used to it so I"m starting to desensitize. Oh yeah, earlier puking in the hospital, puking at the x-ray, blah blah blah.
Wednesday, Sept 25: So I go back to the urologist, puking in his office in terrible pain, not taking well to the stent at all. I go in, doctor takes some x-rays, says its in the right place and can't figure out why I'm in all sorts of pain, looks at me blankly and says "Well what do you expect me to do about it?" I'm like, you gotta be f-ing kidding me. So I request stronger pain meds, he's like "Oh, yeah, I guess we can do that." I head home with lortabs, puking, discomfort, popping pills like mad.
Thursday, Sept 26: After a day of suffering, still peeing in a plastic bottle and straining all my urine/blood, as it looked like hawaiian punch from all the blood, waiting for a stone to come out, by nighttime I just can't take it anymore, and let me tell you, I can take a ****load of pain. So, in excruciating, unending agony we call the ER again, we get a different urologist who I guess is the head of their practice or whatever and he says come in Friday for an 8am surgery and we'll take the stent out, I'm like, sounds good. I suffer thru the night Thursday because I don't feel like going to the ER, and go in Friday.
Friday, Sept 27: So, Friday I go in, get the stent out, specifically ask the doctor, did the stone come with the stent. No. Originally I thought the stent made the passage big enough for the stone to come out, but apparently it just dilates the tube so that the stone tumbles out when they pull the stent out. However, no dice. So, I'm feeling way, way, better after the stent is out, but I"m still not good. They hook me up with some perkisets and send me on my way. For the first time in a week, no puking, just excruciating amounts of pain. Yay for me.
Saturday, Sept 28: Discomfort that I know is actually lots of pain, I'm just completely desensitized, still don't feel well but I"m on a lot of perkiset.
Sunday, Sept 29: Discomfort that I know is actually lots of pain, I'm just completely desensitized, but I still don't feel well. However, determined to gut it out I stop taking the perkiset.
Monday, Sept 30: I go in for my follow up with the Urologist, still in pain, its just not excruciating. I'm tender and it causes pain when he pushes on my abdomen. He orders X-rays, I get them, no stone, all they see is a lot of gas in my system. WTF? No stone? WTF? So, he speculates that it might have came out with the stent, no dice, we asked the doctor specifically. So, then he speculates that maybe it was a Uric Acid stone and it doesn't show up on the X-ray. However, Uric Acid is due to a deficiency in the way your body processes, I sure as hell don't have a deficiency and the medicine that they give to dissolve Uric Acid stones raises your urine PH to over 7. My Urine is naturally over 7, so theres no way a stone could have ever formed in my system and now they can't see a calcium stone. So, they send me over to get another CT scan to see if I have a stone in there, because its much more definitive. No stone. So they continue to speculate its gone and I'm just having residual discomfort. I go out to eat on Monday night thinking I"m ok, not such a good plan, start to feel worse and worse, bloated, painful, but I suck it up and go home.
Tuesday, Oct 1: Pain and discomfort in my chest, stomach, spine, lower back, lower abdomen. I deal and go about my business, thinking that I'm on the road to recovery. The pressure in my chest is slowly increasing, but I just go about my business.
Wednesday, Oct 2: Yet again, awoken at 4:13am with excruciating pain in my chest, stomach, spine, lower back, lower abdomen. Major, major pain and pressure. I figure it was about as excruciating as the first day, but I had so much pain it just didn't seem to matter anymore. After the 7 hours on Monday I just wasn't feeling much pain anymore. I have a high tolerance and when added to all the pain I'd been in, I just couldn't feel it as much, however, by no means did I feel good or happy so its off to the ER again. I get to the ER, they order X-rays, all they see is a lot of gas in my system, no stone or anything. I go home. As the day goes on, I get more and more and more pain, to the point where its excruciating at night. Then, some family friends who all had gall bladder problems were like, that sounds exactly like the problems we had. My mother calls me and tells me what her friends tell her, I"m like, damn. Call the ER, they're like oh yeah, I guess that does sound like gall bladder problems, you should definitely come in here. Figures, does a single doctor EVER think of something that fits the diagnosis, nope. So, I go back in that night at about 10pm and stay till 2am. Lots of pain and discomfort. They get me an ultrasound, which let me tell you, it isn't nearly as fun when they're looking at your liver and gall bladder instead of a baby. : ) The test proves to be inconclusive, so I'm scheduled for a hydascan (sp?) the next day.
Today, Oct 3: I go back in to the hospital for the hydascan. A hydascan is a two part test where first they inject you with radioactive isotopes that are attached to liver enzymes, and then they stick you under a nuclear radiology machine and watch the isotopes, it lets them see how your body is functioning. The second part of the test they inject you with a chemical that makes your body think you've just eaten a big, greasy, disgusting meal with lots of dairy products, which triggers your gall bladder. They then watch to see how your gall bladder functions. Well, they inject me up and I get under the scanner and we wait, its supposed to take 20-30 minutes for the gall bladder to visualize, in rare cases 45-60. Well, at 20-30 minutes my liver was fully lit up, but no gall bladder, so we wait 15 more minutes, still only my liver is evident but there appears to be a bright spot where the tube leading to the gall bladder is. So they tell me to walk around for 15 minutes, and then they'll put me under the scanner again at 60 minutes to carry out the second part of the test. So I walk around for 15 minutes, come back, and they put me back under the scanner and my liver and small intestines are lit up, but still no sign of the gall bladder. So I fail, which is a good and bad thing. See, the gall bladder has to fill up with isotopes for them to be able to see how its functioning, however, since that test basically says I have no gall bladder, but yet, I know I do and one was clearly evident in the ultrasound, theres definitely a problem. : ) It can mean a number of things, the most common being that:a) my gall bladder is messed up and they have to cut it out.b) there is some sort of blockage, my gall bladder works fine but for some reason something got stuck in the duct, a calcification or something, or a gall stone. Blow up the blockage and go back to normal, or cut it out.c) theres some sort of blockage due to the fact that my gall bladder is ****ed up and they have to cut it out.
So pretty much, if its determined for sure that something is wrong with my gall bladder, I'm going in for surgery. Yay for me. Thats the whole saga thus far, any questions?
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Hey Daunt, good luck with the surgery. I would think that the doctors would not have such tunnel vision with something like that. I mean when you're faced with a problem, and what you do to solve it fails, you try something else. You don't do the same thing repeatedly, and sit around and wonder why you're wrong. As far as the pain, it's just the initiation into demigodism. You're just earning you spurs;) We all went through it.
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damn daunt , go rest stay, away from the computer for awhile .
wtf are you on some HMO or what ? sounds like some ex military docotrs or something
i hear ya tho dude , ive had 3 odd ball problems all my life that docotrs kept dismissing , turns out there all linked to some hormone issue that i found out thru some reasearch, docs just want the money its hard to find a good one these days ..and no one of the problems isnt my spelling
anyway dude , sorry to hear bout all the problems , hope you can get back to railing s14 soon
wtf are you on some HMO or what ? sounds like some ex military docotrs or something
i hear ya tho dude , ive had 3 odd ball problems all my life that docotrs kept dismissing , turns out there all linked to some hormone issue that i found out thru some reasearch, docs just want the money its hard to find a good one these days ..and no one of the problems isnt my spelling
anyway dude , sorry to hear bout all the problems , hope you can get back to railing s14 soon
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No kidding, I thought about asking the few if they were corspman or medical officers earlier in their life. : ) Thats just about the only place you get misdiagnosed all the time. : ) I suppose its a good thing I didn't go into the service or I would have gotten a discharge. Also, I'm ont on a HMO and my insurance company is gonna be *** raping the hospital when this fiasco is over. Hehehe.
Also, thats what I figure too Adam, I figure I'm going thru all this suffering to make up for my promotion to Demi-God and the successful launching of my business. : ) The truly sad thing is WE CALLED THE DOCTORS and told them what was wrong. Thats the part that gets me, they didn't keep diagnosing, they kept misdiagnosing, we, laymen idiots came up with the solution using the internet and talking to people. It makes you wonder what that decade of training really means. : )
Also, thats what I figure too Adam, I figure I'm going thru all this suffering to make up for my promotion to Demi-God and the successful launching of my business. : ) The truly sad thing is WE CALLED THE DOCTORS and told them what was wrong. Thats the part that gets me, they didn't keep diagnosing, they kept misdiagnosing, we, laymen idiots came up with the solution using the internet and talking to people. It makes you wonder what that decade of training really means. : )
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Update:
Today, Oct 4: So, I go into the hospital again. The story now is that I had kidney stones and now I probably have a liver/gall bladder problem. How can that possibly be, how can two things go wrong at the same time. Well, apparently the extreme amounts of drugs I was taking tend to have liver side effects, which in turn is ****ing up my gall bladder. Yay for me. So now, the story is suck it up, deal with the pain and discomfort for another week while they check my blood tests and everything to see if I still have abnormally elevated liver enzymes. Check it again, if they're going down, then take another hydascan when they're normal and see if it was a temporary thing, or if they're going up figure out what the hell to do now because I've developed another problem due their treatment. Oh yay. : ) However, I'm home again and will probably be home all weekend, so hopefully I can get things rolling for work again. See ya.
Today, Oct 4: So, I go into the hospital again. The story now is that I had kidney stones and now I probably have a liver/gall bladder problem. How can that possibly be, how can two things go wrong at the same time. Well, apparently the extreme amounts of drugs I was taking tend to have liver side effects, which in turn is ****ing up my gall bladder. Yay for me. So now, the story is suck it up, deal with the pain and discomfort for another week while they check my blood tests and everything to see if I still have abnormally elevated liver enzymes. Check it again, if they're going down, then take another hydascan when they're normal and see if it was a temporary thing, or if they're going up figure out what the hell to do now because I've developed another problem due their treatment. Oh yay. : ) However, I'm home again and will probably be home all weekend, so hopefully I can get things rolling for work again. See ya.
Dude, :flamer the hospital. If all those drugs did cause the current malady, then I hope you can get some compensation. You should for all the misdiagnosis. This ordeal has probably taken more out of you than you are showing. You've got my sympathy, unless you don't want it or somethin like that :peace
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:;laughs:: nah, I'm pretty resilient, my family is angry as hell though. : ) However, theres no way to prove misdiagnosis, plus, they all stand by the fact I did have a kidney stone and its a known side effect of the pain medications to have liver side effects so theres really no room for a lawsuit, even if there were chances are I wouldn't pursue one. : ) Thanks for you sympathy, I'll survive though. : )
I've always felt kind of sorry for Daunttless. 
It didn't take a serious illness to make me feel that way. j/k Hey good luck buddy. If those doctors keep jacking you around, you should swing on over my way. Chicago has a lot of world class medical facilities. I think Iowa is about one rung above Canada, in terms of medical treatment. Keep us posted.
It didn't take a serious illness to make me feel that way. j/k Hey good luck buddy. If those doctors keep jacking you around, you should swing on over my way. Chicago has a lot of world class medical facilities. I think Iowa is about one rung above Canada, in terms of medical treatment. Keep us posted.-
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Daunttless wrote:DauntTless = Bad *** Mofo. : )
Thats all I gotta say about that. Jesse, do you see two T's in my name, yes, yes you do, just like you saw two balls right before I dipped my man sack into your alimentary canal and tickled your soft pallete while you gave my man juice factories a tongue bath.
lmao. That ruled.
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Daunttless wrote:DauntTless = Bad *** Mofo. : )
Thats all I gotta say about that. Jesse, do you see two T's in my name, yes, yes you do, just like you saw two balls right before I dipped my man sack into your alimentary canal and tickled your soft pallete while you gave my man juice factories a tongue bath.
I think those exotic stories you have been talking about reading are going to your head....
I dont think i have ever had any sort of homosexual thoughts like that one you just expressed, i dont even know what to say.....
:P
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