Author Topic: Thought I was gonna die last night but theres a silver lining (Read 431 times)

Vulcan · « **on:** April 21, 2007, 04:12:38 PM »

I woke up with in the middle of the night sever cramps in my mid-abodomen. Incapacitating cramps that went on for an hour or so, from the mid-back through to just under the base of my rib cage.

Now I stayed calm, didn't panic. I often get bad pain from 'gas', but usually that is lower down and quickly cured. But this was different, much higher up.

I figured it was either
- a gas buildup either near or above the diaphram
- some sort of pinched nerve (had one before, similar pain level)
- some sort of vital organ had burst

Eventually I tried the massage method, massaging my upper abdomen pushing down, kinda like fondling my own man-breasts. Eventually the pain subsided and I returned to bed. As soon as I lay down however the pain returned. I concluded that it was a gas buildup (or an internal organ had burst of some sort of bodily fluid was building up) and sat up til 4am when it stopped enough for me to sleep. I intermittently tried to 'relieve' possible sources but whatever the cause was it was not low enough down the intestine to make an appearance.

So the good news it was some sort gas buildup. The even better news is that I am now PnG with my wife. Something evil comes from my bowels, something even the gates of hell themselves have closed too. Something that can vacate an entire household. Something genocidal dictators would pay good money to weaponise.

It is the weekend, and I have the house to myself

eagl · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2007, 04:34:25 PM »

Gallstones can do that I think.

Hornet33 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2007, 05:28:36 PM »

Dude I had the same thing happen to me and I did the same thing you did. Never went to a doctor until a month later when my appendix ruptured.

That's what was causing the pain for me. Go get it checked out, because that's not something you want to mess with. It put me down for a week in the hospital and anouther month recovering because of the infection from the rupture. I had to let the incision heal from the inside out and that hurt like you would not believe.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2007, 05:47:01 PM »

That happened to me.. a few days later, this happened.

My story became the basis of a sci fi movie trilogy, but the only thing that actually happened was the alien bursting out of my chest.

ffft .... Hollywood always gets it wrong.

Vulcan · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2007, 06:51:24 PM »

Not gall stones, not an apendix.

The culprit 'surfaced' this morning. It has been flushed and a WMD of epic proportions is current slowly floating its way towards Australia.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2007, 08:47:04 PM »

Better go see this guy.
Course you will have to be on the brink of death before he finally figures out whats wrong with you.
But hes sure to have all kinds of cute tests run on you

Dago · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2007, 10:30:15 PM »

Should we start a pool on how long till Vulcan is under the knife?

Squibb · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2007, 01:32:53 AM »

whew lucky it wasn't kidney stones

i just had two surgeries for a sack above my right kidney that had sealed itself shut and let urine basically pool up and form solid masses inside the inclosure. It started tearing into my kidney's tissue in attempt to break out... 4 months later, two surguries, and countless trips to the ER and i'm on my way back to shape...

having stints pulled out of you while you're awake sucks, they shove a rather large camera up your panushole and past the sphincter muscle.. most uncomfortable type of pain ive ever felt..

Vulcan · « **Reply #8 on:** April 22, 2007, 07:19:17 AM »

I'm not a drinker, so I doubt I'll get stones.

I was fine after I expelled the source. I believe it came from some day old spaghetti bolognaise the missus feed me. The beef musta gotta a bit ripe and more 'compustable' higher up the intestine than usual

Furball · « **Reply #9 on:** April 22, 2007, 07:34:18 AM »

heh, poor wittle Vulcan got owned twice today in the MA

maybe bring your WMD next time

cpxxx · « **Reply #10 on:** April 22, 2007, 07:45:27 AM »

Glad you got rid of the 'problem'. Have on occasion been subject to cramps over the years. Got used to them to the extent that it nearly killed me. Because appendicitis can have similar symptons. This truth, I ruefully reflected on as I rode to hospital in an ambulance complete with flashing blue lights and sirens.

Recently around the time my son was born. I came down with cramps etc, attributing that to either the stress I was under or my sister in law's chicken dinner. Eventually it went away. Then a few weeks later it transpired the city's water supply is contaminated by a cryptosporidium parasite. Hundreds have been sickened by it, not just me. It like we're living in a third world country. We can't drink the tap water and have to boil it until at least September.

I guess, what I'm saying is that you should never dismiss cramps like that if the symptons don't go quickly. That much I've learned.

Tac · « **Reply #11 on:** April 22, 2007, 08:44:29 AM »

You should've gone to the ER at once. Those are also symptoms of heart attack (angina).

What you describe is exactly what I have had and mine are definetely heart related.

Id suggest you get yourself a blood test and visit a doc just in case. I didnt do it until the pain was so bad so sudden even a moron like me instantly realized it wasnt muscle cramps or digestive/gas in nature. Doc almost slapped me for not coming in years earlier on it.

JB73 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 22, 2007, 09:29:01 AM »

It's Lupus

Vulcan · « **Reply #13 on:** April 22, 2007, 05:57:46 PM »

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Originally posted by cpxxx
Glad you got rid of the 'problem'. Have on occasion been subject to cramps over the years. Got used to them to the extent that it nearly killed me. Because appendicitis can have similar symptons. This truth, I ruefully reflected on as I rode to hospital in an ambulance complete with flashing blue lights and sirens.

Recently around the time my son was born. I came down with cramps etc, attributing that to either the stress I was under or my sister in law's chicken dinner. Eventually it went away. Then a few weeks later it transpired the city's water supply is contaminated by a cryptosporidium parasite. Hundreds have been sickened by it, not just me. It like we're living in a third world country. We can't drink the tap water and have to boil it until at least September.

I guess, what I'm saying is that you should never dismiss cramps like that if the symptons don't go quickly. That much I've learned.

If I sat upright it helped relieve the pain quickly, and did some massage 'techniques'

. When I was 20ish I came down with Hep A (nasty thing), ever since then I occasionally have violently painful gas cramps. So I'm fairly used to it but not normally at that height in the intenstine.

Yeah if I ever get an appendicitis I probably am gonne be screwed.