kirstymc
23-02-15, 19:16
Hi,
About a week and a half ago I was taken to hospital with really bad back/rib pain, the pain in my ribs was on my right hand side. Was kept in for tests/chest x-rays and an ultrasound found gall bladder inflammation.
Was in hospital for a few days on an antibiotic drip (which was rough, couldn't stop throwing up every time I had a new drip) then last Monday they discharged me on a five-day course of antibiotics. Was told I need to come back in six weeks for a clinic appointment, and would eventually need to have my gall bladder removed.
I went on holiday the next day until Saturday, a friend's wife who's a GP said I'd be fine to drink on my tablets but not to go crazy, so was drinking shandys (half beer, half lemonade). Apart from the last night where I had a couple of shots because they gave us them for free in the bar :doh:
Today was my first day back in work, loads of people asked me how I was/what had happened throughout the day, one person went "oh a friend's wife had that and died". I've still got a dull pain in my back/under my right shoulder blade, but hadn't thought much of it... Until then. So I then googled to see if it was common to still have this dull pain, and first thing I saw was "potentially serious condition".
So of course I've completely lost my mind.
I've been suffering really bad with my anxiety lately, and this hasn't helped. I'm convinced this dull pain means the antibiotics haven't worked (because of my own stupid fault) and it's just going to get worse and I'm going to die. Or what if it's something else entirely that they've missed?
Actually shaking writing this, my heart's going and my breathing's crazy. Can't seem to calm down. Wish he'd never said anything to me :frown:
About a week and a half ago I was taken to hospital with really bad back/rib pain, the pain in my ribs was on my right hand side. Was kept in for tests/chest x-rays and an ultrasound found gall bladder inflammation.
Was in hospital for a few days on an antibiotic drip (which was rough, couldn't stop throwing up every time I had a new drip) then last Monday they discharged me on a five-day course of antibiotics. Was told I need to come back in six weeks for a clinic appointment, and would eventually need to have my gall bladder removed.
I went on holiday the next day until Saturday, a friend's wife who's a GP said I'd be fine to drink on my tablets but not to go crazy, so was drinking shandys (half beer, half lemonade). Apart from the last night where I had a couple of shots because they gave us them for free in the bar :doh:
Today was my first day back in work, loads of people asked me how I was/what had happened throughout the day, one person went "oh a friend's wife had that and died". I've still got a dull pain in my back/under my right shoulder blade, but hadn't thought much of it... Until then. So I then googled to see if it was common to still have this dull pain, and first thing I saw was "potentially serious condition".
So of course I've completely lost my mind.
I've been suffering really bad with my anxiety lately, and this hasn't helped. I'm convinced this dull pain means the antibiotics haven't worked (because of my own stupid fault) and it's just going to get worse and I'm going to die. Or what if it's something else entirely that they've missed?
Actually shaking writing this, my heart's going and my breathing's crazy. Can't seem to calm down. Wish he'd never said anything to me :frown: