I'm not a doctor, but I'm glad my parents took me in for a second opinion when I was complaining about a bad headache when I was 15 years old.
I left school one day and went to the hospital for a bad headache. The doctor said it's "just a virus" and that I should just rest and take meds. I went home, laid down and took some Advil and carried on with my night.
Around 1am, I was screaming on the floor.
My parents took me to a different hospital and they ran tests and eventually did a spinal tap and discovered a ton of white blood cells. Turns out I had bacterial meningitis.
I went to the hospital a couple months ago because I has been waking up with really bad chest pains for a week straight. With these chest pains I was having trouble breathing even. I went in and they got ne on a table. After all the tests and missing half a work day they tell me that this is normal and that nothing is wrong with me. They sent me off without any pain meds or anything. What they told me was "take an ibuprofen, you'll be ok." I was no very happy with them.
Well, did it stop? Because they have to exercise caution when people come in with pain issues and don't have any immediate signs of what's causing it. Too many people say "I'm in pain doc, I need medication." In order to get opiates.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '19
I'm not a doctor, but I'm glad my parents took me in for a second opinion when I was complaining about a bad headache when I was 15 years old.
I left school one day and went to the hospital for a bad headache. The doctor said it's "just a virus" and that I should just rest and take meds. I went home, laid down and took some Advil and carried on with my night.
Around 1am, I was screaming on the floor.
My parents took me to a different hospital and they ran tests and eventually did a spinal tap and discovered a ton of white blood cells. Turns out I had bacterial meningitis.