Ready To Pick
Monday, May 21, 2012
Unbelievable Pain
Monday, April 30th started off as a regular day for me and at the end of the day I hit the gym, got in a good boxing workout and headed home. I scheduled a workout with a friend for 6am Tuesday morning so I wanted to get home, shower, eat dinner and get to bed as soon as possible. But after my shower my back really started aching. I took a few Advil and went to bed. In the middle of the night I woke up in excruciating pain. My very low back was twisted up in knots and my pelvic region felt like someone had reached inside and was ripping out my insides. I was doubled over, hardly able to breathe and wailing in pain. It lasted what seemed like an eternity but was probably more like 10 to 15 minutes. I faintly remember David waking up and asking me if I was ok. Once the pain stopped I thought OMG WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! I texted my friend and said no way could I workout I had done something to my back. Tuesday morning came and I was feeling better. I started working and mid morning, wham, another episode. I laid on my massage chair and started doing deep breathing techniques, but nothing helped. I moved to the couch hunched over and rocking back and forth again taking deep long breaths. Once the pain subsided I looked at the clock. I could've swore 15 minutes had passed. At this point my whole body is sore. Obviously no gym again that night, decided to take it easy. In the middle of the night another episode hits, this one lasting about 25 minutes. The whole time I'm hunched over the porcelain fixture in the bathroom heaving, which I know is from the pain. I start digging through every medicine cabinet, closet or drawer I can find trying desperately to locate ANYTHING stronger than Advil. I found a bottle with 3 Darvocet so I pop one of those and also found an ambien and take that. It does nothing. I'm doubled over on the floor if not pacing back and forth just trying to breathe. My poor husband is lost. He asks if there's anything I want or need or what can he do. All I can muster in response is please put me out of my misery. Wednesday morning rolls around and I've had all of 2 hours of sleep. I feel like I've been hit by a bus. I sit at my computer, get on a conference call and try to patiently wait til 9am when my Ob/gyns office opens. You see, I've had a host of female problems and had just seen them the previous week as something felt off and I wanted them to run some hormone tests, etc. I had been on new birth control pills since January and hadn't had a cycle since. At this point I was convinced I had an ovarian cyst rupture. I leave a message and the PA calls back at lunch. She said your tests look pretty good, pregnancy test was negative, but the new pills I started you on on Sunday are probably trying to make you have a cycle. Or you could've grown a cyst but the new pills should help with that too. She said since they close at noon on Wednesdays to call back Thursday morning if I was still cramping and they'd see me right away. Cramping?? She obviously had no clue that I was describing WAY more than that! Ok I thought, I'll call them back in the morning and get an appointment. If only I made it that far...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment