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Originally Posted by Fbone
Sorry you had an unpleasant experience in the hospital.
I was in the ER Saturday for dehydration. Stomach virus. I received two bags of fluids and left. Process took about 3 hours. Doc and nurse were capable. Still, I'd rather not repeat the whole thing.
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I hope you're feeling better. Dehydration is why I made myself go even knowing the expenses and process to get it covered. I had not drank water in two days. I was really sick. If I took just a sip it caused terrible pain. The doctors didn't seem overly concerned. I had to ask for IV fluids then had trouble with the nurse to give me them. Last time I was there in January same nurse and did the same thing, she didn't give me IVs the doc ordered.
I'm fighting an infection in the left side of my neck and right above the clavicle. So that has something to do with all of this including the inflammation. Blood work shows wbc is good so it must be localized which is why the doctors didn't catch it. They seldom touch you in the ER anymore they rely on blood tests for everything. They just ask where the pain is I told them under my chin all he said was hmm...The lymph nodes on the left side of my neck and clavicle are swollen, tender a bit burning and they swell it can push on nerves in my neck resulting in some crazy symptoms. Hot flash, blood pressure spike, palpitations, skin crawling, clammy, chills, cold flash, shaking, burning nerve pain in arms and the weirdest one having to run to the bathroom every few minutes because my intestines are spasming and there is pressure in my left big toe. Last time I was out of it I suddenly passed out and started snoring. It freaked hubby out. He figured long as I was snoring I'd be okay. That vagus nerve is no joke. We found holding my head to the right or laying on my right side with my head on a pillow stopped the symptoms after the first attack. We tested it as long as I kept my head tilted to the right I was okay but the minute I moved it back it started up again. So basically keeping space between my left shoulder and neck stops these crazy episodes.
We are treating it with sinus rinse, Airbourne, Motrin, water and chicken soup. So far so good just mild burning pain where the lymph nodes are.
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