A C/T scan of both kidney and gall bladder, an ultra-sound of gall bladder and ducts, and an x-ray of lungs. They also did urinalysis and blood work. I am assuming that they would have checked liver enzymes but I don't know about the pancrease. The dr. was very thorough. The night before I went to the ER I had significant sweating, chills that caused violent shaking, nausea and extreme pain. The symptoms got somewhat better the next day and then got much worse as the night went on. By the time I got to the ER, I was incapacitated by the pain and my dh described my behavior as almost ferral. I did not have any fever. Blood pressure was 180/110. The pain was much worse when laying down than when sitting or standing. I have lost 20 lbs. in the past two months without trying but I have attributed that to stress. The pain right now is almost as bad as it was the first night but no other symptoms other than digestive upset and nausea. I don't know what an aortic aneurysm is so I can't really say if I am at increased risk for it. My dm just died of a heart attack at age 60 but I am assuming that a heart attack doesn't last 5 days. Like I said the dr. was very thorough and did a pretty extensive work-up. It seems like he wouldn't have missed anything major. I was just wondering there could be something else wrong with the gall bladder other than stones. Thanks for all the input. It helps some.

I am really trying to puzzle out what is going on with me. The ER dr. said that my problem could possibly be gall bladder related but that he didn't see any stones on either the C/T scan or the ultra-sound. He said it was more likely that I had passed a kidney stone because of previous history, location of pain (most upper right back and flank) and blood in my urine plus the fact that the pain let up some after administration of pain meds and toradol (relaxes ureter). However, the pain is almost as severe as it was a few hours before I went to the ER and I am also starting to have pain in the front upper abdomen as well. The pain goes staight through from front to back. After reading about the two different problems extensively on the internet I am beginning to think that it sounds more like a gall bladder problem than an already passed kidney stone. Obviously if I make through the night without another ER visit I will contact my dr. tomorrow. At this point I am just trying to determine how I would know if it is really an emergency or if I just need to make it through the pain for a few hours. I have read that both a kidney stone and a gall bladder attack are about the same in intensity and that both usually pass within a few hours. The pain was not quite as bad as labor was for me (of course some of my dc weighed 10.5 lbs. and I had them without pain meds while I had morphine for this). I do have pain meds that they sent home with me and I could probably manage the pain if I had to because the alternative is not good. My dh is out of town, my 16 (with only a permit) would have to drive me to the hospital and then stay there (because she can't drive home by herself), and my 15 year old would be stuck at home alone with the two younger children. This might would work for a few hours but definitely not any longer. So my question is, how would I know if it is an emergency? Is there any sure way to tell a gall bladder attack from kidney stones? If it is the gall bladder would anything horrible happen if I didn't go in and just waited for the pain to pass? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Try to look at it like any anniversary is better than the alternative. Maybe as someone else suggested you can have a do-over. Anyway, hope your week improves.

Can't wait to hear. :hurray::thumbup:

I passed the stone on Thursday night. The CAT scan said that I do not have any more stones but I am still having pain. No where near as severe of course but still enough to concern me.

I was doing a search on yahoo about a medication and clicked on a link and ended up with an X rated pop-up. It was a very hostile site that was very hard to close and then it tried to download something to my computer. My computer locked up and then I had to shut it down entirely and then run a virus scan, adaware and spybot. I just wanted to point out that you can get these kinds of things on your computer without even trying. The search I was doing was in no way what-so-ever related to anything sexual. This is the first time that it has ever happened to me and I am not sure that I ever would have believed that this could happen if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. I am still a bit outraged.

I called the dr. and talked to him ahead of time. He spent about an hour with us at the appt. and talked to both of us extensively about teen self-injury and her particular expression of this. Her problem is possibly OCD related. She is also having a lot of anxiety, panic-attacks and insomnia that could either be related to this or perhaps in addition to it. The best option would be an SSRI but my dd is adamant about not taking that class of medication. He talked to her about why she didn't want to take it and that her concern was not supported by the facts but she still doesn't want to take it. So, we are going to try a different medication. I did tell him that I was very concerned and stressed about this but neither he nor my psychiatrist are as alarmed about it as I thought they would be so maybe I am over-reacting. He said that it is actually not uncommon in this generation. He said that some teens use it as a way to distract themselves from difficult emotions that they may be having. It would be easier to figure out if she was more willing to discuss it but she doesn't seem to be ready to do that. I am somewhat relieved to have discussed it with him and I am so glad that I was out of the hospital and able to deal with it. Of course I will follow-up with both my him and my psychiatrist.

Luckily they were very fast with lots of morphine and I passed the stone fairly quickly. Now to just figure out how to prevent getting any more.

As many of you know my teen dd had an episode of self-injury back in Dec. As far as I know there have been no further episodes but she does have scars. She has an appt. on Friday with our regular family dr. and I know that he will ask questions. I am concerned about him thinking that there might be abuse and I know that dr.s are mandatory reporters. I trust my family dr. and I have no problem being frank with him. I also understand that they will probably want to talk my dd alone but I know that she will not be very communitive with him. She does not want to discuss this and she is not going to answer his questions. What is the best way to handle this situation? I obviously don't want to involve the law or child services or put our family through any additional (and unnecessary) trauma. Should I call him and talk to him ahead of time? I have talked to my psychiatrist about this situation and I will consult her tomorrow. Her advise so far has been that as long as the behavior does not continue to not put pressure on my dd to talk about it until she is ready. I would especially appreciate input from anyone who has direct experience with this kind of situation from any POV.

Ditto: GG, Tutor, Mamagistra, Antonia, Michelle T, and Volty. :iagree: I will say that my df, dh and ex-h were all veteran and I absolutely support our troups and believe that we should take care of them. I just don't support this war or global policing.

Thanks. I needed a laugh.:lol:

I have had the same kinds of conversations with my ds. One of my dds on the other hand would rather be tortured than talk about her feelings. It all depends on the individual. Some people are simply more sensitive than others and if you have a good relationship with your son then he is probably closer to you then anyone else that he could talk to. Consider yourself lucky.

I don't know much about the reported but I absolutely agree with most of Ron Paul's stands on the issues and hope that we get more people like him running this country. :iagree:

So I would be more inclined to believe that. I don't know where your Dr. is getting his date if you know the first day of your last period and the u/s matches fairly closely. So I would go with the first week of May. Of course, if you are usually early you might should be prepared a little earlier.

Born in Fresno, Ca Moved to San Diego, Ca Moved to Virginia Beach, Va Back to San Diego, Ca to Como, Tx (population 200, ye-haw) to Norfolk, Va to South Weymouth, Ma (suburb of Boston) to St. Petersburg, Fl to Sulpher Springs, Tx Ogden, Ut to Norman, Ok Denver, Co Mountain Home, Id Okinawa, Japan Bitburg, Germany Jacksonville, Fl Buffalo, NY Niagra Falls, NY Dallas, Tx Salt Lake City, Ut Elko, Nv Clearwater, Fl Green Bay, Wi Oklahoma City, Ok Plano, Tx Green Bay, Wi Cape Coral, Fl Brentwood, Tn Spring Hill, Tn I think that's all. Can you tell my dad and my dh were military. My favorite places were Germany and Boston. Unfortunately, I can't afford to live in either. Really like Tn though. :001_smile:

I didn't see where I was supposed to put my name. It was the first rep I left though so it's extra special. Hope it brightens your day some. :thumbup:

I will definitely be checking it out! :drool5:

That depends on how much caffiene I need. Always night. Roses dim pens cloudy vanilla red cotton Jazz Bath neither winter mountains always regular (caffiene please) Plastic, I use them as garbage bags essentials oils windows cats city truck two pillows (feather please) top sheet minivan neither (dr. phil or laura) gold pancakes red salsa ham one more whew for the day. I am waiting for pizza. Introvert or extrovert?

Congrats! :hurray:

[quote=Adrianne;104048 Do you know where can I find out some back ground info? Like who is Juliette and the Others? how did Michael leave the island only to appear on the boat? We don't know how Michael ended up on the boat.

At least for girls. All of my girls were an absolute pain at age 8 and I am praying that my last one makes it to 9 with both of us still in one piece.

But I really don't think that Hurley and Sun would be visisting a fake grave site and I can't for the life of me imagine any situation where those two would have willing split up and not be trying to get back together. Also, I think that the captian said that the wreckage was found by Widmore but they think that it was staged by Ben.

They made sure that you were truely emotionally involved in the character and then he dies. And I didn't see it coming. I just assumed he would be the other one of the six. Also, it was Jin's baby, it was conceived on the island (they are obviously going to have to lie about that and fudge her dates some, because she couldn't have gotten pregnant on the island if he died in the crash), and Juliet said women that get pregnant on the island die and therefore if Sun didn't get off the island she would die.

I don't ever remember hearing that they wouldn't put a flash backward and a flash forward in the same episode. Actually I don't think that there are any "flashes" at all. I think that because we picked up the story on the day of the crash, we assumed that that day was present time BUT it is entirely possible that the entire story is currently passed tense and that we are simply receiving the information out of chronological order. I think that Desmond (and maybe the guy on the ship who died) is the only one involved in actual time travel. Therefore, the info we saw on Jin was pre-crash and the info we say on Sun was post-crash. If his death date said the day of the crash then they are saying that he was never one of the survivors at all. Not one of the eight who survived the crash or one of the six that made it off the island. That means that there is one more of the six. I really hope that it is Sawyer. I don't think that it is Claire. I think that she will be one of the eight that survived the crash but died on the island after giving birth. There is no other way to explain it if she is not one of the six. I think that Kate has her baby and is raising it. I can't imagine who the other one would be that would have have had to have lived after the crash but dies before being rescued. And I can't think of anyone else who could realistically be the other one of the six. I think that the ones that are left behind are left behind because they want to be and they don't want to be discovered. I think that that is the big cover up. The six are carrying on a big charade to protect the rest of the survivors. That doesn't explain Claire though. She wouldn't choose to stay and let her baby go and I don't think that she would get left behind accidently while Arron made it off. Therefore, I think that she must also die soon. And perhaps Jack is to blame for that hence his problem with the baby. I don't think that the baby would count as one of the six because he was born on the island. I don't think that any of this applies to any of the people who were not on Oceanic 815 so all of them could have also got off the island as well: Desmond, Juliet & maybe Danielle and Alex. Ben obviously lives and I think that he made a deal with Sayid that Sayid would work with him in exchange for Ben taking care of the other survivors. I saw the Micahel thing coming last week BUT I was blown away by the fact that he doesn't appear to know who he is. I don't think he is acting. I think that he really doesn't know. So either he also time traveled to before the accident and then was placed on the boat or they brainwashed him and put him on the boat. I think that means that he does not have Walt. Meaning that the other still do and I have no idea where or why. Last week I thought Charles Widmore was behind the whole thing but now it looks like maybe he is trying to figure it out and Ben is really behind every thing. I just can't figure out if his motives are good but his means are bad or if he is just bad. And I have no idea how Jacob ties into this whole thing. Whew! :confused1:

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