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Hospital visit. anyone good with anatomy?
I'm looking for a second opinion. I went to the emergency room yesterday due to a nagging pain in my pelvis, and I'm unhappy about my diagnosis.
Here are my symptoms:
almost 5 weeks ago, I went to bed with the most horrible pain in the left side of my (high) abdomen, near the base of my rib cage. I woke up the next morning, and now had a pain in my pelvis, just to the right of my hip bone. My thought was, "I ate something crazy and it's moving through my intestines. It will be gone by tomorrow". I ended up vomiting violently that night (and only that night).
The crazy pain turned into an ache, and has persisted for this entire time. It doesn't matter if I lie down, twist, turn, jump, squat, etc, the pain is the same. I always feel uncomfortable no matter how I move. So yesterday I went to the hospital. The doc kept telling me it could be my ovaries, and a ruptured cyst on there or something. So they spent four hours doing ultrasounds, vaginal probes, and a pelvic exam, only to rule that out. Though they did find a cyst on my right ovary. I have to go in for another ultrasound for that guy in two weeks. Whatever.
Back to my main problem. Doc thinks I have kidney stones. Or had kidney stones? But they took an ultrasound of my bladder (which, by the way, is no where even close to where this pain is!) and it looked fine. Although all the other symptoms fit (sudden pain in abdomen/kidney area, vomiting, persistent discomfort, ache in pelvic area), I can't get over how far off to the side this pain is. How can it be kidney stones if the pain is not anywhere near my bladder or kidneys?
And now today my kidney hurts (on my back way up near my ribcage). GRAAARG!
Re: Hospital visit. anyone good with anatomy?
I have no experience with kidney stones...however my first thought was cysts. Both my sister and I have had them and what we experienced sounds very similiar to your symptoms. However, if the doctor ruled them out, then I guess I'm no help.
Were you put on anti-biotics for the right ovary cyst to try to dissolve it?
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No, they just told me to come back in two weeks for another ultrasound. No meds. They didn't seem too concerned about them. I asked flat out "is this common in women?". And the doc said, "oh yeah" and explained the difference between ovarian cysts or follicle cysts or some jazz. He said I don't have the usual kind women get when they ovulate (where cyst clusters form to compete to be the viable follicle or something). I'm at the end of my cycle and ovulated two weeks ago already. He said I have some other type of cyst (which is still common) that is just some cyst filled with a bit of blood or whatever.
I didnt have front pain with kidney stones...i had three.......I ended up in the ER and almost was admitted....but i threw up and couldnt get comfy and felt like ass...but i still was the new member educator of my sorority, secretary of the student body SGA, and took 6 classes....it was insane....
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honestly...unless they're too big to pass (which they should have seen in the US or an Xray.....all you really can do is take 80 mg of advil/pain relief of choice, and drink drink drink.....cut high levels of calcium as thats waht the stones are...(i always do more water/juice when i eat alot of dairy in one day....just to make sure. and i get a twinge where it was before
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it actually takes three bouts of "pain" to pass each stone. there are bends in your urinary tract that every time it hits a bend it gets "stuck and your body works to keep it going...thats why it hurts...
I just thank god im not a GUY!
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Yeah, the doc was acting as though they didn't see a stone, and that I'd probably passed it already. And--in passing--it had inflamed something (I'm guessing one of these bends in the tract?). though--again--about the positioning of it, I'm still confused. The pain is constant and only just beside my hip bone. Hopefully it will be gone soon though.
I just called my parents and told them about it, and they're all freaked out about the cyst thing. I calmed then down I think.
I'm drinking lots and lots of water and taking advil for the pain.
Thanks for the advice girls!
A few weeks ago I went through something similar and was in incredible amounts of pain. I didn't have kidney stones, but did have a kidney infection.
I am surprised that they didn't prescribe an antibiotic or something. Anything actually.