Seriously considering going to hospital
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Seriously considering going to hospital
I'm seriously considering going to hospital. I don't know what to do
Sweetie, if you feel you really need to go you probably should.
You could be dehydrated.........
Is it because of D / nausea...... or just the pain (I don't mean to imply that the pain is less important by using the word just).
I really can't tell you what to do.
Love, and thinking of you..... Shirley
You could be dehydrated.........
Is it because of D / nausea...... or just the pain (I don't mean to imply that the pain is less important by using the word just).
I really can't tell you what to do.
Love, and thinking of you..... Shirley
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-- Winston Churchill
Lisa,
Sorry you accidentally cut yourself, on top of everything else. Unfortunately, it seems that bad days can always get worse.
This is a cruel disease, because it tends to kick us when we're down, and it finds ways to worry us when we're most vulnerable. It seems to know that doctor's offices are closed on weekends, so the only way to get help is by going to the ER. I can recall many times when my symptoms were so bad, going into a weekend, that I swore that on Monday, I would call my doctor to get some relief. As it turned out, though, by Monday, I usually felt much better, so I didn't call.
Over the years, I've experienced various types of pain - I've accidentally cut off the end of a thumb on wood-working machinery, I've fallen about 15 feet out of a tree, and landed on my back, I've fallen out of the back of a truck trailer, which resulted in a broken arm, which had to be set without the benefit of pain-deadening drugs, I've had two major, emergency abdominal surgeries, and many, many minor incidents that I've long since forgotten, but I can honestly say that the most pain that I've ever experienced, has occurred during episodes of MC reactions. The migraines were debilitating. The joint pains, (especially my knees), were sometimes so bad that I had serious trouble just trying to walk. I couldn't sleep sometimes, because my neck and back hurt so much. But the worst pain was in the gut - the abdominal and pelvic pain was so bad at times that it was beyond description. We sometimes have strange thoughts at such times, because I remember thinking, during some of those episodes, that if the pain of childbirth was that bad, then no language would have words for "brother" or "sister", because no one would be willing to go through that more than once in their lifetime.
It seems strange that some of us have no significant pain with MC, and yet others can have such extreme levels of pain. It's a puzzling disease.
I hope you're feeling much better by tomorrow.
Tex
Sorry you accidentally cut yourself, on top of everything else. Unfortunately, it seems that bad days can always get worse.
This is a cruel disease, because it tends to kick us when we're down, and it finds ways to worry us when we're most vulnerable. It seems to know that doctor's offices are closed on weekends, so the only way to get help is by going to the ER. I can recall many times when my symptoms were so bad, going into a weekend, that I swore that on Monday, I would call my doctor to get some relief. As it turned out, though, by Monday, I usually felt much better, so I didn't call.
Over the years, I've experienced various types of pain - I've accidentally cut off the end of a thumb on wood-working machinery, I've fallen about 15 feet out of a tree, and landed on my back, I've fallen out of the back of a truck trailer, which resulted in a broken arm, which had to be set without the benefit of pain-deadening drugs, I've had two major, emergency abdominal surgeries, and many, many minor incidents that I've long since forgotten, but I can honestly say that the most pain that I've ever experienced, has occurred during episodes of MC reactions. The migraines were debilitating. The joint pains, (especially my knees), were sometimes so bad that I had serious trouble just trying to walk. I couldn't sleep sometimes, because my neck and back hurt so much. But the worst pain was in the gut - the abdominal and pelvic pain was so bad at times that it was beyond description. We sometimes have strange thoughts at such times, because I remember thinking, during some of those episodes, that if the pain of childbirth was that bad, then no language would have words for "brother" or "sister", because no one would be willing to go through that more than once in their lifetime.
It seems strange that some of us have no significant pain with MC, and yet others can have such extreme levels of pain. It's a puzzling disease.I hope you're feeling much better by tomorrow.
Tex
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