Nothing is ever simple with me. I am supposed to be getting surgery done on an inguinal hernia on Tuesday. My pain in that general area became so unbearable yesterday that the nurse had me come in to see the on call doctor. I was nauseated from the pain, dizzy, ready to puke on them all. He freaked and said my hernia was NOT strangulated (intestines stuck in there, would have been bad news) and that he could not see how my hernia alone could put a person in that level of pain, he admitted me to the hosptial and ordered a CT scan. I spend the night in the hospital but they found nothing new apart from all the wrong things they already know about me, none of which can explain this recent bout of crazy pain. It is in my left groin area where the hip meets the abdomen, goes down into the labia (lovely) all on left side though, and sometimes shoots straight through the back of my buttocks. My left leg and arm have also been known to go numb. SOOooo they are thinking nerve compression. What on earth do you do about that??? And why out of nowhere, here, all of a sudden? So the plan right now is to go forward with the hernia surgery in case somehow this condition is compressing a nerve or something. Because the timing makes sense, all this started back during our move when my hernia was discovered (due to pain in this area, though not this bad at that time, gotten worse over time).
If anyone has any experience with compressed nerves I'm wide open. I'd love to hear someone say that yah, a hernia made them feel this way and after surgery they felt GREAT! But I don't expect anyone will be able to say that.  Back to the internet...
thankfully my mother was able to take the kids to their place a few days, but I miss them already
OH - and as a side note - REGLAN is nasty stuff!!! They gave it to me IV to prevent the pain meds from making me nauseated. It made me CRAZY!!!!!!!!! My legs/body wouldn't stop moving and I had this uncontrollable urge to rip all the IV'S out of my body and go leap out the window. Sure it's okay for a lot of folks but not for me.
as if this isn't long enough, my husband said the sweetest thing to me as I lay there waiting for the scan - he said, "You know what, you were going to have to go through all this stuff in your lifetime, regardless... I'm so glad I get to be your husband and go through it with you".     who SAYS that???? and means it!!! We have had our share of rocky road along our 15 years but he sure takes good care of me, I am thankful.
this is a novel... sorry... can you tell kids aren't here? thanks...
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Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
Edited by ecmmbm (01/13/06 03:40 PM)
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nerve pain/compression? sheesh... (aka my night in the hospital) ugh.
