Wow what an interesting past couple of weeks. It all started on the Monday after conference. Before me and Kev got married I started to get really bad pains in my upper quadrant, mostly on my right side (ended up in the ER and was diagnosed with gastritis). I've had those pains a couple times after we got married, but nothing like I did on monday. That monday I woke up having several bad pains, normally if I take something like Nexium it goes away. Well by the time I got to work the pains had not gone away and they felt as if they were getting worse, I decided that it was NOT gastritis and that I needed to go to the hospital. So I spent 3 hours in the ER with them telling me that my gall bladder was fine and that I had hepatitis. I of course freaked out, working in the medical field I knew how serious hepatitis was.
After being referred to a family doctor she then told me that I was contagious and that I could not work for 2 weeks, granted I had already taken monday through friday off because we had to wait for the blood tests. My first thoughts were how in the world can we afford to do that? Kev is going to have to work extra hours just to make all our bills on time.
The following tuesday I had more blood tests done to see where my liver enzymes were, and my boss called me to tell me that they were dropping which really ment I did not have hepatitis and that I was go to the office on wednesday to have an exam. Here I am thinking what in the world is going on with me? At this point I was still having the pains every couple days, I was told I could not take anything for it because it had to pass through my liver. I was still exhausted and did basically nothing all day but sleep and lay on the couch. After my doctors visit on wednesday we came to some kind of conclusion. I was diagnosed with a viral stomach infection, and the reason my hepatitis tests came back positive was because I had received the vaccine several years ago. If the pains do not go away or they continue to get worse then I will have a hidascan done where they will inject dye into my gall bladder and when it contracts if I get the same pain then my gall bladder will more then likely need to be removed. I really am happy to finally get to the bottom of all of this. I go back to work on monday, and after taking the rest of last week off I'm finally starting to feel a lot better.
3 years ago
2 comments:
Wow, what a week or two you have had. I'm glad you are starting to feel better and hope that you don't need any more tests.
wow, hope everything works out. I am a little confused about the end result...maybe I just read your post to fast, but I am sure you will post more when you figure out what in the world is going on.
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