Sorry for the distracting title, in all actuality, this has less to do with money, and is mostly about my job (where I get my money lol). Soooo here goes:
I've been having recurrent symptoms over the past several months. The usual stuff: bloody, loose stools, occasional sharp pains, constant dull pains, and rare but oh so painful shooting pains, some feverish/nauseated days and a whoooole lot of fatigue. As well as some weird, disconcerting symptoms like weird rusty colored urine, little sediment-like particles at the bottom of the toilet bowl before I flush and random UTI symptoms a couple days a week.
Anyways, I was fighting through it until now, and was doing fine at work. But, due to stress at work the past few months (I work at a VERY high volume restaurant that serves a sportsfan crowd on their way to support the Seattle Mariners/Seahawks) my symptoms, especially the fatigue, have gotten TERRIBLE. I've missed about half of my scheduled work days the past few weeks and have used up all of my sick leave, just barely able to make rent this month.
Today, (after missing work AGAIN) I went in to urgent care, because my GI doc has been unavailable to see me, and they ran a blood and urine test. The urine I submitted was almost opaque with cloudiness and was a yellowish brown color, which I thought might indicate some sort of problem. But both tests came back entirely normal. Aside from a +1 for "amorphous crystals" in the urine, which seemed fairly benign when I researched it.
On one hand, I'm relieved that I hadn't developed a fistula and that my disease doesn't seem particularly active. Buuuuut on the other, I'm doing a serious WTF? Like, am I just imagining these symptoms? Did I just use all my sick time for nothing? Am I just a baby who doesn't want to go to work? On top of that, all this thinking and worrying has brought back my depression, making it even TOUGHER to get my ass out of bed every morning. My life is spiraling downwards out of control, and what I'm feeling isn't even bad enough to show up on any tests.
Sorry for the rant... Just stressed out and confused and really worried I'm going to have to quit or take a break from work. I needed to get this out, so if you made it to the end, thanks for reading.
I've been having recurrent symptoms over the past several months. The usual stuff: bloody, loose stools, occasional sharp pains, constant dull pains, and rare but oh so painful shooting pains, some feverish/nauseated days and a whoooole lot of fatigue. As well as some weird, disconcerting symptoms like weird rusty colored urine, little sediment-like particles at the bottom of the toilet bowl before I flush and random UTI symptoms a couple days a week.
Anyways, I was fighting through it until now, and was doing fine at work. But, due to stress at work the past few months (I work at a VERY high volume restaurant that serves a sportsfan crowd on their way to support the Seattle Mariners/Seahawks) my symptoms, especially the fatigue, have gotten TERRIBLE. I've missed about half of my scheduled work days the past few weeks and have used up all of my sick leave, just barely able to make rent this month.
Today, (after missing work AGAIN) I went in to urgent care, because my GI doc has been unavailable to see me, and they ran a blood and urine test. The urine I submitted was almost opaque with cloudiness and was a yellowish brown color, which I thought might indicate some sort of problem. But both tests came back entirely normal. Aside from a +1 for "amorphous crystals" in the urine, which seemed fairly benign when I researched it.
On one hand, I'm relieved that I hadn't developed a fistula and that my disease doesn't seem particularly active. Buuuuut on the other, I'm doing a serious WTF? Like, am I just imagining these symptoms? Did I just use all my sick time for nothing? Am I just a baby who doesn't want to go to work? On top of that, all this thinking and worrying has brought back my depression, making it even TOUGHER to get my ass out of bed every morning. My life is spiraling downwards out of control, and what I'm feeling isn't even bad enough to show up on any tests.
Sorry for the rant... Just stressed out and confused and really worried I'm going to have to quit or take a break from work. I needed to get this out, so if you made it to the end, thanks for reading.
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