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Irishonly

(3,344 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 10:08 AM Jul 2012

I have been to hell and back the last few months.

I am now just getting over a mild concussion and a bruised tail bone. I was helping my dog get into the car. She lurched back and I fell on concrete. I had a lump the size of a goose egg on my head.

I had just been through a month or more of vomiting and no one knew why. I was anemic and my kidneys were not happy. No one could figure out what was happening and I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be here much longer. I dropped twenty pounds. The upside was I was on the low end of normal weight.

I kept going to the doctor and he was threatening the hospital. I started reading in here and online. I figured out the vomiting was medication related and some changes were made. I am feeling better than I have felt in a year, my weight has stabilized and I am walking again. I still hurt every day but my blood test are slowly getting better. I want to thank this group. You were there and although I didn't post I got ideas.

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I have been to hell and back the last few months. (Original Post) Irishonly Jul 2012 OP
glad to hear you are feeling better. it never ceases to amaze me mopinko Jul 2012 #1
Doctors are trained that when they hear hooves, think of horses, hedgehog Jul 2012 #2

mopinko

(71,813 posts)
1. glad to hear you are feeling better. it never ceases to amaze me
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 10:23 AM
Jul 2012

how slow docs are to catch on to bad med reactions/interactions. like they don't want to plant that idea in your head or something.
argh

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
2. Doctors are trained that when they hear hooves, think of horses,
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 10:48 AM
Jul 2012

not zebras. The only problem is that on the rare occasion it is zebras!

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