Around the middle of last year my side started hurting. I have had kidney stones before so figured it was just that again (it was about the same level of pain and in the same area) and since they did fuck all last time I figured it was bets to just tough it out. After several months the pain beat me in the middle of the work day, the combination of fatigue and the pain itself, i had to stop and the defeat coupled with the pain made me cry a little bit. My boss insisted I go to the hospital.
Since then I have been ignored or neglected by the hospital, through endless phone calls I did manage to get 2 tests done, then I roped in my GP and they did more tests in 1 day than the hospital did in a year, anyway, I have been over this several times and I dont want to be the guy who just keep complaining, so long story short:
I still dont know why my side hurts, or how to stop it, the pain prescription I got (after a year of nagging) is all but worthless, barely stronger than over the counter headache tablets, and I honestly dont know if this is something trivial they just havent figured out yet, or it is chronic, or it is terminal, I mean it took them a like 14 months to bother to test for a kidney infection, by which time it would have killed the kidney if it had been that.
All I know is that at any time without warning or provocation my side could start to hurt and keep growing worse until I am out of action, and it will get better and then worse again, and go on like this for a week or two, then go away again, and if I am too active, it will come back, and if I'm not too active, it will come back anyway, but not as quickly.
Even as I type this, my side is hurting, its about a 4 or 5 right now, but it was pushing me a little on thursday and friday.
I just wish the doctors would FOR FUCKING ONCE earn their pay and fix something. I CAN remember the last time I gained any worth from anyone in the medical profession, it was over 11 years ago, since then I have had kidney stones twice, accidentally stabbed myself in the hand, had diarrhoea for 6 months, damn-near crippled myself with a fall down the stairs (my left hip is still not great), and the only word that comes to mind when trying to describe the medical profession in those times is IMPOTENT! Any issue I have had either resolved itself, became chronic or I had to diagnose and self-treat, but I NEED help with my side, and they are as useless as ever.
Since then I have been ignored or neglected by the hospital, through endless phone calls I did manage to get 2 tests done, then I roped in my GP and they did more tests in 1 day than the hospital did in a year, anyway, I have been over this several times and I dont want to be the guy who just keep complaining, so long story short:
I still dont know why my side hurts, or how to stop it, the pain prescription I got (after a year of nagging) is all but worthless, barely stronger than over the counter headache tablets, and I honestly dont know if this is something trivial they just havent figured out yet, or it is chronic, or it is terminal, I mean it took them a like 14 months to bother to test for a kidney infection, by which time it would have killed the kidney if it had been that.
All I know is that at any time without warning or provocation my side could start to hurt and keep growing worse until I am out of action, and it will get better and then worse again, and go on like this for a week or two, then go away again, and if I am too active, it will come back, and if I'm not too active, it will come back anyway, but not as quickly.
Even as I type this, my side is hurting, its about a 4 or 5 right now, but it was pushing me a little on thursday and friday.
I just wish the doctors would FOR FUCKING ONCE earn their pay and fix something. I CAN remember the last time I gained any worth from anyone in the medical profession, it was over 11 years ago, since then I have had kidney stones twice, accidentally stabbed myself in the hand, had diarrhoea for 6 months, damn-near crippled myself with a fall down the stairs (my left hip is still not great), and the only word that comes to mind when trying to describe the medical profession in those times is IMPOTENT! Any issue I have had either resolved itself, became chronic or I had to diagnose and self-treat, but I NEED help with my side, and they are as useless as ever.