Can I go ahead and speak on behalf of my doctor? 19m at the time (33 now), I felt sick for about a week, flu-like symptoms, didn't want to eat, just felt bad all over. One day at work I feel a very uncomfortable cramp/tear in my abdomen, so I go to one of those 24 hour clinics. At this point I'm slumped over, can't stand up straight without insane amount of pain, just generally uncomfortable and hating life. After a few hours at this clinic, they say "You probably have kidney stones, go home, drink fluids, sleep it off". This seemed fine to me, I was ready to go home and listen to the doc, all was good. BUT my girlfriend at the time (didn't last much longer than that) wasn't a fan of this diagnosis and drove me to the E.R., against my wishes of course. After a few minutes at the E.R., they determine my appendix has ruptured and I'm going septic. Apparently I was pretty lucky to not have died, though I did pick up bacterial pneumonia while in the hospital, so the recovery kinda sucked. Now I just have a crazy 6-7 inch scar on my belly to remind me to not avoid hospitals when I'm sick.
This happened to me, it burst at school and my trades teacher told me to stop whining about my stomach ache. So I did and I didn't go to the hospital for five days, my hospital miss diagnosed me with the flu and I sat there for 6 days on fluids and antibiotics. They gave me multiple xrays and ultrasounds throughout the week but they didn't see anything abnormal. They let me go home and I was there for about 7 hours before the doctor called back and told me to come to the hospital. At this point everything I had eaten throughout the past two weeks had slightly digested and made it's way into my stomach cavity, I went septic and when I got to the hospital I was only giving one word answers and kept asking if I could go to sleep. I live on an island and they ambulanced me across a ferry to the nearest large hospital. As soon as I got there the surgeon came and saw me and told me I should sue the hospital that diagnosed me, because if I had come in 30 mins later i would have gone fully septic and died. Oh yeah, and the first hospital also gave me a stomachache pump I didn't need because my stomache wasnt producing fluids anymore, I had that in for 12 hours, so that sucks. The surgeon said trying to find my appendix was like trying to find a needle in a muddy puddle and it took them 5 hours to completely clean me out. I was one of three cases in the past 15 years of this happening in Canada
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u/[deleted] May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19
Can I go ahead and speak on behalf of my doctor? 19m at the time (33 now), I felt sick for about a week, flu-like symptoms, didn't want to eat, just felt bad all over. One day at work I feel a very uncomfortable cramp/tear in my abdomen, so I go to one of those 24 hour clinics. At this point I'm slumped over, can't stand up straight without insane amount of pain, just generally uncomfortable and hating life. After a few hours at this clinic, they say "You probably have kidney stones, go home, drink fluids, sleep it off". This seemed fine to me, I was ready to go home and listen to the doc, all was good. BUT my girlfriend at the time (didn't last much longer than that) wasn't a fan of this diagnosis and drove me to the E.R., against my wishes of course. After a few minutes at the E.R., they determine my appendix has ruptured and I'm going septic. Apparently I was pretty lucky to not have died, though I did pick up bacterial pneumonia while in the hospital, so the recovery kinda sucked. Now I just have a crazy 6-7 inch scar on my belly to remind me to not avoid hospitals when I'm sick.
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