So last week I thought I had caught the flu from hubby but come the wee small hours of Saturday morning I am in so much pain I don't know what to do. The pain started Thursday morning and kept on getting worse but I thought it was body aches from the flu that I was getting. Saturday we go to the walk in clinic at our Dr. office and there is a 1:15 min wait. I am crying in line waiting w/ hubby and then I am having to breath through these things like they are freaking labor pains. Only about 10 mins later my name is called, they apparently when you are complaining of sever abdominal and back pain they get you in asap. 2 nurses and 1 doctor later I've been asked 5 times if I could be pregnant, the even did a pregnancy test, a blood draw and urine test, everything looks good. They start speculating gall stones since it runs in my family and once upon a time someone told me they saw I had one, during a baby ultrasound. They can't get me in for an ultrasound right then because I had eaten in the last 10 hrs, they scheduled me for one the next morning. That night was the best I had felt in days but in the morning I woke up w/ sever hunger pains and the gurgling and pain radiating from my under my ribcage around my right side to my back. Ultrasound results unfortunately didn't shed any light on the situation. No stones or abnormalities in my kidneys or my gall bladder. I was praying and praying there wasn't something wrong with my gall bladder and I am so thankful there wasn't but now I am like well WTHeck is wrong with me? Followed up with my Dr Monday and they can't get me in for an official apt for 2 weeks. O_O I told them that the pain is there when I have an empty stomach and that I originally thought it was just really bad heartburn combined with reinsuring of my trampoline injury, the flu from my hubby and maybe even some gas. I had told them all this on Saturday too but I was in so much pain and it had lasted for so many days we wanted to get everything checked out.
Incase it is maybe an ulcer also on Monday I started taking some OTC heartburn meds to see if that helps and if so then I probably have an ulcer on my hands. Monday I took a pill and it is still there but I've read it can take a while for this stuff to give you full reliefe. The googling I've don't on ulcers sounds like I could totally have one. It is caused by over using anti-infmalitories and I know I've been taking to many lately. I keep on telling hubby that I need to go off them cold turkey because for a while I was taking them multiple times day. Onto Tuesday my pain was back in full force I went back to the walk in and my blood pressure was through the roof. They are doing more labs and I am waiting for the results on that and they said they may have to do a CT scan if we can't figure out what is going on. GREAT!!! I borrowed my parents at home blood pressure machine thing and it has been so high I went back into today to have the nurse retake it and yep still CRAZY, 174/107, I have no idea what is going one with me. On Saturday my blood pressure was fine but by Monday I am off the charts. So I was racking my brain trying to figure out what changed between now and then and the only thing is the fact that I added the Zantac 150's like the Dr said to. So I started googling if they have any effect on blood pressure and found people claiming that they do. So I stopped taking them today in hopes that my blood pressure will return to normal. Tonight I am feeling pretty good and according to my parents BP machine I am in the mid 130's over upper 90's. Better but still to high to be normal.
My anxiety has been in full swing because I can't find out what is wrong with me. I keep on toying with the idea that I need to go to the ER if we don't figure this out because at least at the ER they will give me an answer before I leave. Where the regular Dr is working on process of elimination and I keep on having to go back. I have another follow up tomorrow morning and I told hubby if all of a sudden pain stays away & my blood pressure goes back to normal I am going to have mixed feelings. I'll be happy I'm better but I'll be like well then WHAT THE HECK was happening?? I almost expect them to redo blood test tomorrow.
Thanks to all these fun times I have not been able to do any training. And with my blood pressure being so high I don't even know if I can train. I will ask the Dr tomorrow about it and see what they say. It has been a very frustrating week full of pain, anxiety & panic attacks. I would love to just get back into the groove. Feeling very frustrated and worried about training. Hopefully tomorrow will come with answers. :-/
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