Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Super Steroid Woman gets Ambulance Ride

Well, I posted Friday that I was feeling pretty good, it didn't last. My chest (costochondritis) was still hurting even after starting the steroids but no worse than usual however, my upper tummy area was starting to hurt-thought it was my IBS reacting to the steroids. Saturday am, my whole chest and upper tummy was really painful but I figured I'd better go buy a dress for my friends wedding in a couple of weeks while I was feeling relatively well from the steroids. I went to a dress shop and tried on a bunch of dresses under the hot lights and just continued to feel worse and worse. I found a dress that fit and went home-all in all, I was gone about 2 hours.

I got home and told Will I wasn't feeling well and took a Vicodin and a muscle relaxer thinking it might have been a muscle spasm or something. Laid down on the couch with the heating pad and tried to relax. Over the next couple of hours, my breathing became very shallow and the pain was excruciating. I felt like I was going to have explosive D, so managed to make it to the potty-nothing was coming out but I had awful spasms. I remember breaking out in a sweat, I threw up, I remember trying to wipe my mouth and than I woke up on the floor with like 8 paramedics over me. Apparently I had pssed out and there was blood in what I had thrown up so Will freaked and called 911.

They couldn't get an IV in, my blood pressure was low and my pulse very high. I don't remember being in the ambulance much, other than it was bumpy!

Anytime you complain of chest pain, you get the full cardiac work-up, my heart is fine. They pumped me full of pain meds and anti-inflammatory and 5 hours later, sent me home with medication for the nausea from the pain and mega pain pills. Official diagnosis, acute gastritis. Add that to all my other "itis" and I think I've got them all. Tendinitis, bursitis, chostochronditis, iritis, gastritis-I think IBS should end in an itis too!

I'm assuming all these itis's are complications of the RA.

Not sure if this is very coherent or not as I'm pretty drugged. I had to come into the office to tie up a few loose ends. I'm going to leave at 1 to go to the rheumy's office and see what else they can do-then I'm going home and back to bed. I actually came in wearing a sweat suit because I can't stand the pressure of anything on right now. I'm so tired of this.

I'm sorry I missed out on Tina's Hen Party-please give her my regards and let her know why I missed it.

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Taking it one day at a time.....

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