My stomach felt much better yesterday during the day. I managed to eat toast for breakfast and a lean cuisine meal for a late lunch. DH gave me a couple of chocolate truffles and those seemed to go down just fine too
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We were going to Mongo's Grill, but by the time that we got there I realized that I felt so ill that I couldn't eat. (You know I am really ill if I can't eat :> ) He didn't want to eat alone, so we actually just decided to go back home so that I could go to bed. I was really disappointed, but I was feeling so miserable that I thought it was the best thing too.
Instead of going home, we ended up going to the ER. My abdominal pain had spread to my right side, I was terribly nauseated and the pain radiated through my back. I was practically in tears.
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We had to wait forever in the ER and then finally were taken back. My blood pressure was a whopping 170/80 which is very high for me. I'm usually about 110/80 or so.....
The doc assumed that it was either my stomach or my gall bladder after examining me. When the doctor suggested that the gall bladder would be most likely I joked:
"yah, I know...fair, female, fat, fourty, fertile. That's me."
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He balked "are you a doctor too?"
"No, I'm just a dawkter's wife." :>
The abdominal ultrasound was fine though (always eases my mind), my lipase checked out and....a chest x-ray was normal (yeah! That was sort of an added bonus!).
I was told that it could still be my gall bladder but that I wasn't "hot"...or that it was a stomach ulcer. I'm to follow up with my internist and was given prescriptions for a variety of stomach things (in case that is what it was) as well as pain medication.
Seriously...last night I felt like I was in labor it was so painful.
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I have lost 6.5 pounds as of this morning because of not being able to eat much and because I've felt so nauseated. I guess....that is the silver lining! Hey....whatever it takes to lose weight, huh?
So that's my story. I'm just left with a dull aching pain today...I don't think it's my stomach....because eating food doesn't make it better or worse....at least for hours. I think, honestly that this is payback for eating too much McDonalds.
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I managed to eat some plain oatmeal this morning.....and a #8 value meal sounds awful.
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