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9/12/07 Things were going great, we just got home from the hospital with our perfect little baby girl. Mom was living her dream!!! About three days later she had some sharp pains(she said felt like labor pains) but they went away 10 minutes later. We thought as new parents these pains were probably part of healing from natural birth. She went to get her 1 week after birth checkup at her OB. While she was there she asked about the pains. Her OB said she should not have these pains and started poking her belly, near her appendix was sore and her OB said if the pains persist to have our family doctor check them out. Her pains did go away for about a week, but they came back worse and we don't have a family doc. My health insurance states if you go to the ER for a non emergency they will make you pay a lot of it on your own. So we went to an urgent care place that was on our PPO plan. This place was a $hit hole( I don't have time to tell how bad Airport Urgent Care in Toledo OH was) the doctor wrote a script for IBS and told her to drink warm fluids and use a heating pad. After going to 5 or 6 pharmacies I found out they don't even make the script any more. One place did have some left so I took home about 85% of the pills she was supposed to take. She took the pills and followed the recommendations and the pain got worse over the next month. I talked to a nutrition friend of mine who said to go to a health food store and tell them she has IBS and get some Acidophiles. Talking to the lady at the counter we came to the conclusion that she needs pro biotics because she was on an IV of antibiotics for strep B while in labor. So we tried these pro biotics and digestive enzymes for another month because it all made sense. Meanwhile her pain has been getting worse this whole time. She would be crying in her sleep. ( I hated doctors already before this happened, I have had a lot of surgeries and I actually stitch myself up if needed from time to time) So we finally signed up for a regular family doctor. She said "Looks like IBS" BUT go to the hospital and get a CT scan to be sure. That same night on 12/6/07 last Thursday her doctor called at 9:30 PM and told her to get to the ER because she had an obstruction in he bowel and needed emergency surgery. She was admitted that night and had her operation on Saturday. They had to remove some of her large and some of her small intestine. The pieces were sent to "the lab" and she was diagnosed with CD on Wednesday of this week. She will not be out of the hospital till next week. Our daughter is actually doing better because mom was not able to make enough milk for her because she was not eating much for about 2 months. Now the little one is getting a lot of formula and loving it. But mom is still in the hospital with a broken heart over how she will not be able to pick her daughter for a month and has CD. I am mad at myself for trusting the urgent care doctor so much. :ybatty: Not sure what to do but I especially don't trust doctors now. Her doctor said " Once she heals from surgery she can see his partner about her long term treatments" I am thinking about telling all these doctors to go FU{K themselves in the middle of a busy highway!!! We are talking about trying to go natural with this stuff called primal defense. I also have a disease called dishydrotic excema, it is genetic with no known cure, brought on by stress causes my skin to blister up like bad sun burn water blisters and bad itching. When the doctor said she could prescribe a steroid to help me with discomfort I told her to keep it. Mine has not come back since then. It is not even close to s bad as CD but kind of the similar on the outside of the skin. I am now going to visit my wife and my baby!! This actually was the short censored version of the story. But I am glad we have a place like this to talk and bounce ideas around.
Thank you!!
Jim
9/12/07 Things were going great, we just got home from the hospital with our perfect little baby girl. Mom was living her dream!!! About three days later she had some sharp pains(she said felt like labor pains) but they went away 10 minutes later. We thought as new parents these pains were probably part of healing from natural birth. She went to get her 1 week after birth checkup at her OB. While she was there she asked about the pains. Her OB said she should not have these pains and started poking her belly, near her appendix was sore and her OB said if the pains persist to have our family doctor check them out. Her pains did go away for about a week, but they came back worse and we don't have a family doc. My health insurance states if you go to the ER for a non emergency they will make you pay a lot of it on your own. So we went to an urgent care place that was on our PPO plan. This place was a $hit hole( I don't have time to tell how bad Airport Urgent Care in Toledo OH was) the doctor wrote a script for IBS and told her to drink warm fluids and use a heating pad. After going to 5 or 6 pharmacies I found out they don't even make the script any more. One place did have some left so I took home about 85% of the pills she was supposed to take. She took the pills and followed the recommendations and the pain got worse over the next month. I talked to a nutrition friend of mine who said to go to a health food store and tell them she has IBS and get some Acidophiles. Talking to the lady at the counter we came to the conclusion that she needs pro biotics because she was on an IV of antibiotics for strep B while in labor. So we tried these pro biotics and digestive enzymes for another month because it all made sense. Meanwhile her pain has been getting worse this whole time. She would be crying in her sleep. ( I hated doctors already before this happened, I have had a lot of surgeries and I actually stitch myself up if needed from time to time) So we finally signed up for a regular family doctor. She said "Looks like IBS" BUT go to the hospital and get a CT scan to be sure. That same night on 12/6/07 last Thursday her doctor called at 9:30 PM and told her to get to the ER because she had an obstruction in he bowel and needed emergency surgery. She was admitted that night and had her operation on Saturday. They had to remove some of her large and some of her small intestine. The pieces were sent to "the lab" and she was diagnosed with CD on Wednesday of this week. She will not be out of the hospital till next week. Our daughter is actually doing better because mom was not able to make enough milk for her because she was not eating much for about 2 months. Now the little one is getting a lot of formula and loving it. But mom is still in the hospital with a broken heart over how she will not be able to pick her daughter for a month and has CD. I am mad at myself for trusting the urgent care doctor so much. :ybatty: Not sure what to do but I especially don't trust doctors now. Her doctor said " Once she heals from surgery she can see his partner about her long term treatments" I am thinking about telling all these doctors to go FU{K themselves in the middle of a busy highway!!! We are talking about trying to go natural with this stuff called primal defense. I also have a disease called dishydrotic excema, it is genetic with no known cure, brought on by stress causes my skin to blister up like bad sun burn water blisters and bad itching. When the doctor said she could prescribe a steroid to help me with discomfort I told her to keep it. Mine has not come back since then. It is not even close to s bad as CD but kind of the similar on the outside of the skin. I am now going to visit my wife and my baby!! This actually was the short censored version of the story. But I am glad we have a place like this to talk and bounce ideas around.
Thank you!!
Jim
