I don’t usually share the negative parts of my life here. But today I am because sometimes life is like that and I hope everyone can just keep me in your thoughts/prayers. And I will keep everyone updated. I ended up in the ER twice in 24 hours due to extreme abdominal pain, fever, chills, dehydration, and what turned into little to no urine output despite filling me with fluids and wanting to go which is extremely painful.

This was a day after a colonoscopy that went smoothly but the colonoscopy was for a different issue and I wanted to take the wait and see approach to see if my symptoms would go away. Well, they didn’t and I ended up spending all day Friday in the ER with very dismissive and rude nurses not answering the call button in a timely fashion. The nurses all day were making comments like, “Ugh the doctor ordered more tests and oh look more meds we have to get.” And straight up dismissing my pain and wanting to discharge me. So believe me, I’m filing a complaint…but of course, all these issues had to happen at the end of the week into the weekend when normal offices are closed but I was told by multiple of my own doctors before they closed to go to the ER. My bladder was so full it was on the verge of bursting more than once which is a medical emergency and it still took them nearly an hour if not more at times to get to me. The doctors in the ER were so lovely and ran a multitude of tests just the nurses were extremely dismissive and rude. So after spending my entire Friday in the ER I was sent home with a diagnosis of a fever, UTI, abdominal pain, and post-operative urinary retention due to a colonoscopy (another issue) which I have had once and never had any issues. That night I was discharged and sent home with a catheter. I later got a call saying the UTI results were negative so now I still don’t have an answer. And I never knew how I could take something as little as not being able to relieve myself for granted. Fast forward to Saturday night, something happened with the catheter and it got dislodged and it was extremely painful and I knew then and there it had to come out taking it out was painless and not my issue. My issue is now I still can’t urinate. Back to a different ER late Saturday night into early this morning. But this time with extremely kind/caring nurses and was seen and treated by a doctor and nurses immediately. More tests were run and unfortunately, I still don’t have an answer. The catheter is back in and I was discharged. Fever came back and I feel like crap and have some upper respiratory issue wouldn’t surprise me from spending the day Friday in a walking Petri dish I call the ER although COVID, flu, RSV, etc. was negative so was the CT scan but that was Friday and I realize things with your body can change so quickly. So right now I’m a medical mystery. And am hoping my normal doctor has answers this week as I have an appointment scheduled and another with urology who hopefully has an answer. I will keep everyone posted. Anyone else gone through this? I know I’m not the first person to not have a definitive diagnosis.