Posted on 12/28/2013 12:27:09 AM PST by MacMattico
**Do you have a GP or private doctor of some kind? If not, you need to get one.**
That. A private physician will run the diagnosis to the ground. ERs a great if you are critically ill or have something very simple.
Does it hurt to take a deep breath?
Apparently not in this case!
OTOH, I have a great GP who takes care of all of my medical needs.
I was an emergency room nurse for a lot of years at the “great” Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore when I was young. What an education that was! LOL! Some days, it was like working at the animal farm.
However, emergency rooms aren’t what they used to be. Everyone has to be so careful not to leave themselves open for a lawsuit.
I’m of the opinion that to cover their behinds, they order way too many tests , and don’t get around to treating you until all the test results are in.
CT scans are over used, and they cause cancer. Did he say they were expensive, which seems very unlikely for him to say, or did he say they would cost in in cancer risk?
People are so sensitive to the costs that they are convinced doctors think about the patient's insurance all the time.
So you don’t have a doctor?
Skip the ER and go to an urgent care clinic. Demand a urine test specific for blood and a CT. Ongoing for 3 weeks is a bit much but my bride of 28 years had her first kidney stone 2 weeks ago. Not saying that’s what it is but it’s possible. Bottom line; get a CT. If you don’t work around radiation the dose isn’t enough to affect your health. It would take multiple CT’s over a short period of time so don’t be concerned about that.
Don’t go to the ER for pain that has been occurring for 3 weeks. Go to your GP. ER’s are full of people trying to get pain meds. They have long involved stories of mysterious pains that are hard to diagnose. So if you actually have a real pain that is hard to diagnose, you get sent home.
In short, don’t use the ER for a doctor.
The amazing thing is the mooches keep coming back and getting free medical care for trivial things.
I have a “Cadillac Plan” and a great Primary Doc. I went to the ER because I was in a lot of pain suddenly in the late evening, not because I am penniless with no insurance.
That was another one of my thoughts.
Kidney stones ain’t your friend.
Sounds intestinal. I have the same pain at times just because of how my guts are strung. A kink. It goes away when I drink plenty of water. And I stopped drinking in 2011.
When the pain is sharp, yes, dull no.
None of those symptoms.
thanks everyone. I’m going to try to sleep now and hopefully make it through the weekend with no ER and get in to my Primary doctor Monday.
Or that’s the plan for now.
If I end up in the ER, I will get all test results and a decent referral.
There’s a lot of ‘stuff’ in that area, and I’m not even gonna try to guess what it could be, though I have my suspicions. Go back to that ER, and tell them its worse, or find another hospital ER. Chances are, whatever it is isn’t gonna kill you, because you aren’t dead yet, but you probably do indeed need a CT Scan.
+1
Docs in the ER could use more vay-cays imo. I could tell horror stories, but I’ll pass; it’s Christmas! :)
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