We don’t know what’s wrong with her, but she’s in severe pain, can barely talk, and keeps collapsing. We’ve not only taken her to the hospital, but also to all sorts of specialists to check her out to find the cause and fix, and none of them can figure out jack shit. We already owe thousands of dollars now. This has been going on for a month where someone has to stop what they’re doing and take her to the hospital. They suspect it’s gas in her stomach, but still aren’t doing anything about it. They just send her home every time, just to come back the next day.
She woke up at 3am screaming in pain and I’m now in the waiting room.
My next concern is how long my family can keep up with these long hospital visits at a moments notice 24/7. We all have jobs, we all have college. We’re all missing work and school to do this, but at some point, our jobs and school will start complaining about our absence. I don’t know how we’ll handle another month of this with zero improvements or ideas on fixing her.
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Does she take ozempic? She could be having stomach freeze if so.
First you need to brush up on her condition and if it gets better on its own. If it needs treatment you need to document everything and take her to a hospital that did not cause her condition.
I’m no lawyer but if it turns out they caused this and endangered her life and put her through intense suffering just so they could deny they caused it that’s a lawsuit right there. It’s so blatant they will likely offer to settle and to repay what you have put out and pay for whatever the other hospital does to help her.
This is assuming there aren’t other factors you haven’t provided.
what’s happening here is gross negligence not greed, the doctors don’t get kick backs from you coming in so often, what it is is that they think she is faking and because she’s been to that hospital so much now they know her and are going to keep tell you nothings wrong with her until she’s too far gone for them to ignore it anymore. women’s pain is very very often ignored or minimized until it’s too late. someone needs to call the insurance company and get the name of a different hospital you guys can take her too, even if it’s further away, the specialists she has seen need second opinions. believe it or not this is not an uncommon experience that your mom is having right now.
I am not a doctor, but I have been there. I would recommend taking two gas-x, and then lying down on your stomach on a heated pad. If y’all can rub her back to kind of push some of the gas out that would also be extremely helpful but it should exit on its own. If she can tolerate pressure on her stomach I would put a pillow under the heated pad so that the heat is directly pressed against her body but also she has pressure into her stomach. I hope she feels better.
This happend to my sister after an appendectomy. She was still bleeding internally as they hadn’t closed up the blood supply to the appendix properly. The pain was basically blood on the diaphragm. She complained of pain before leaving the hospital and they suggested it was just the gas they pump in for the operation. Come to find out later it was blood leaking into her abdominal cavity.
I have chronic illness/pain. I never go to the ER cause they do nothing. I go through my drs. Your best bet is to contact the surgeon who did the surgery and tell them she’s having complications. If she had something like a laparoscopy there’s gas in there from the procedure and it can be painful but it shouldn’t be making her pass out. When I started looking for answers for my severe pelvic pain I was at the hospital a lot cause the pain was debilitating and drs weren’t giving me answers. The hospital eventually stopped helping me so I got a second opinion from another Dr who did help. I soon had a diagnosis and treatment.
Check she isn’t taking any medication that says take with food on an empty stomach. I missed that on a medication once and was taking it before bed and was getting horrible stomach pain in the middle of the night
Intermittent FMLA. And any family leave your company may offer.
If it occurred after surgery, no doctor is going to touch her with a 10 foot pole (except treating immediate symptoms) other than the surgeon. You need to follow up with the surgeon.
Honestly maybe she needs a patient advocate, they help navigate insurance crap but also advocate for/with doctor interactions. A advocate would be able to help look into short term disability since it seems like they would have trouble caring for themselves if theyre collapsing. Does she have a primary that you guys are following up with?
Hi my daughter had a similar issue after a surgery and had a CT scan. They found pneumatosis intestinalis, which is gas within the intestinal wall. She was life flighted to the hospital that performed the surgery. They would not confirm that the surgery had caused this problem. However the gas and inflammation was in the area where they disconnected the appendix from the intestines.
She had to stop any fluids/foods from entering her stomach due to the risk of intestinal rupture. They treated her with antibiotics and she got better after a few weeks.
Sounds like a gallbladder attack to me. Worst pain ever. Get an ultrasound stat
This happened to my sister for months until she discovered she had a really bad allergy to sesame.