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Stomach update- mostly so I remember
Dec. 3rd, 2005 12:04 amHere's a bit of a record of my stomach for the week:
Saturday - ate steak, salads, lasagne, pavlova, chocolate - severe pain and visit to ER for narcotic pain relief.
Sunday - normal breakfast, can't remember lunch, homemade pizza for dinner - no pain
Monday - normal breakfast, cheese sandwich, steak and 3 veg for dinner - mild pain started in arvo,peaked in evening, gone by 10pm
Tuesday - normal breakfast, Dan Hung dinner (satay beef, fried rice, roast duck, blue cheese for supper - severe pain started immediately after cheese supper, visit to ER for narcotic pain relief.
Wednesday - normal breakfast, baked beans, steamed vegetables for dinnner - no pain (GP appointment)
Thursday - normal breakfast (at 4am!), avocado with fetta on toast- mild pain started after lunch, peaked about 4pm, took panadeine forte and just felt tender during dinner of vietnamese food. I avoided the fattier stuff. (Ultrasound day)
Friday - normal breakfast, mild pain peaked at 11ish, took pain relief, ate baked beans for lunch. Arvo tea of meat pizza and 1 piece of small sausage pizza (piece of salami and some cheese on pizza base), mild pain, vegemite sandwich for dinner, pain peaked about 8ish, took pain relief.
I'm a bit worried that I'm going to be living on panadeine forte until we can work out what's wrong. Unfortunately, the ultrasound didn't find any gallstones, despite the fact that my symptoms all pooint in that direction. I've had two lots of blood tests that suggest wonky liver function, and my urine is intermittantly darker than it should be (this means my kidneys are taking over some of the work of my liver). I now have a referral to a gastroenterologist, but I will be lucky to see him in the next week and, if I'm unlucky, won't get an appointment until the new year. Of course, if that happens, I will just head to the emergergency department instead of taking the panadeine and tell them that I have to wait until the new year to see a specialist and I will have to keep going to them for pain relief. They will quickly arrange to move me higher up the queue.
I think I may have made an error in playing the public health system on Tuesday night. We saw the same doctor on Tuesday night as we had seen on Saturday. He wanted to admit me to the hospital overnight and organise an ultrasound for wednesday morning but I wasn't keen to do a hospital stay when I have a 4 week old baby, so I talked the him out of it. If I had been admitted I would then have been an inpatient, with much better access to a specialist, oh well.
Saturday - ate steak, salads, lasagne, pavlova, chocolate - severe pain and visit to ER for narcotic pain relief.
Sunday - normal breakfast, can't remember lunch, homemade pizza for dinner - no pain
Monday - normal breakfast, cheese sandwich, steak and 3 veg for dinner - mild pain started in arvo,peaked in evening, gone by 10pm
Tuesday - normal breakfast, Dan Hung dinner (satay beef, fried rice, roast duck, blue cheese for supper - severe pain started immediately after cheese supper, visit to ER for narcotic pain relief.
Wednesday - normal breakfast, baked beans, steamed vegetables for dinnner - no pain (GP appointment)
Thursday - normal breakfast (at 4am!), avocado with fetta on toast- mild pain started after lunch, peaked about 4pm, took panadeine forte and just felt tender during dinner of vietnamese food. I avoided the fattier stuff. (Ultrasound day)
Friday - normal breakfast, mild pain peaked at 11ish, took pain relief, ate baked beans for lunch. Arvo tea of meat pizza and 1 piece of small sausage pizza (piece of salami and some cheese on pizza base), mild pain, vegemite sandwich for dinner, pain peaked about 8ish, took pain relief.
I'm a bit worried that I'm going to be living on panadeine forte until we can work out what's wrong. Unfortunately, the ultrasound didn't find any gallstones, despite the fact that my symptoms all pooint in that direction. I've had two lots of blood tests that suggest wonky liver function, and my urine is intermittantly darker than it should be (this means my kidneys are taking over some of the work of my liver). I now have a referral to a gastroenterologist, but I will be lucky to see him in the next week and, if I'm unlucky, won't get an appointment until the new year. Of course, if that happens, I will just head to the emergergency department instead of taking the panadeine and tell them that I have to wait until the new year to see a specialist and I will have to keep going to them for pain relief. They will quickly arrange to move me higher up the queue.
I think I may have made an error in playing the public health system on Tuesday night. We saw the same doctor on Tuesday night as we had seen on Saturday. He wanted to admit me to the hospital overnight and organise an ultrasound for wednesday morning but I wasn't keen to do a hospital stay when I have a 4 week old baby, so I talked the him out of it. If I had been admitted I would then have been an inpatient, with much better access to a specialist, oh well.
