Query

[spookyevilone]

An hour and a half after eating, you experience a fever and stabbing, breath-stealing waves of pain coming from your mid-left lower abdomen. Do you:

A) Forget that passing 'Go' crap and get to a hospital;
B) Google image search, assume it's some sort of intestinal ulcer and promptly ignore it;
C) Assume it's some new, hell-sent food allergy and promptly ignore it;
D) Wonder if your appendix or pancreas somehow defected to the left side and wait to see if you start puking;
E) Overdose on anti-gas pills and promptly ignore it;
F) Wait to see if a small, slimy alien bursts out of your thorax;
G) All of the above except A, because A would involve getting dressed?

In theory, if it were food issues, it should be higher, because 1.5 hours is not long enough for my tum to liquefy carbs. The pain is in one very specific place, and it's always in the same place.

I hope it goes away. That Guy will not be happy with me if I have to call him to take me to the ER the night before his kayaking trip. I mean, he'd be less happy if I let myself expire for anything less than a spectacularly headline-news worthy death, but he'd still probably be grouched off. Especially if it was another of the, "She needs surgery RIGHT NOW" kinds of things. Mostly because he forbade any of my internal bits to explode ever again and it would annoy him beyond measure if they disobeyed.

It's not my gall bladder. Mt. St. Gallbladder tried to kill me in 2003 and was excised for its trouble.

Comments

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

I'd assume I trashed my intestinal bacteria again, down a bunch of garlic pills, then spend a while laying around flipping from one side to the other hoping to rearrange or de-gas out either end.

[akitrom.livejournal.com]

I've gone with "A" in the past, and not regretted it. I drove myself, but I'd have been willing to use a taxi.

You have a fever. That makes it bad. Go with "A".

[ishara.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with akitrom fever and nasty pains of stabbination combined is bad. Get thee to a hospital, posthaste.

[a-jaclyn.livejournal.com]

I have stabbing belly pains every few months, maybe 1/2 hour to 90 minutes after eating. No pattern that doctors could discern, and I had a shitload of tests done in March of this year. As with you, my gall bladder is no longer in the equation. There are no bleeding ulcers, no residual stones in my biliary tree, no other explanations to be found. So they told me to make sure I eat enough fiber, and that seems to keep it under control. (It does until I overindulge in ice cream, or cookies, or some other non-fiber substance.)

So my vote is doctors if expense can be justified, get tested, then just watch eating habits. Record and watch for patterns in pain.

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[hypomanic-poet.livejournal.com]

I love the way you write! You make reading about pain fun and entertaining.

I don't get such tummy aches, though, fortunately. I do get migraines that completely incapacitate me and won't allow me to lie down. >.< Lying down usually makes it worse. Sometimes they get worse if I don't lie down. My head likes to play games with me.

I hope they figure out what's wrong! :(