I'm back, baby!
I'm finally back at work today. I had taken last Thursday and Friday as my mandatory furlough days and am glad that I did. Thursday afternoon, 1:34pm to be exact, I started to have pain in my, uh, nethers. Actually it started down there and radiated up through my abdomen. I was soon in bad shape...cold sweats, temperature of 95.9 (weird, right?), shivers, aches, weakness, etc. I would have immediately thought swine flu but the pain in the nethers led me to either a UTI or a kidney stone. I called my (incredibly hot) doctor and got in there to meet with him an hour later. I barely managed a shower and had that 'I could possibly faint right now' feeling which was fun. I got to my doctor and was unable to provide a sample so he and I went back and forth on the kidney stone vs. UTI thing. Since I didn't have the blinding pain in my kidney area like the last time I had a stone I didn't think it could possibly be a stone. Hot Doctor suggested scoping me but the thought of him anywhere near that area made me want to hide in a corner. He prescribed me some drugs including an antibiotic because most people end up with a UTI post kidney stone anyway. Well the antibiotic helped because my temp went back to normal on Friday and I wasn't having the cold sweats and aches anymore. After doing some research on the interweb I decided it probably is a kidney stone and deferred to hot doctor's opinion.
But can we talk abdomen pain here for a moment? You guys are all moms, what does your tummy feel like post delivery? I can't believe a tiny little stone could cause that much pain. I couldn't watch anything remotely funny because even a small laugh made me double over in pain. Yeesh.
But can we talk abdomen pain here for a moment? You guys are all moms, what does your tummy feel like post delivery? I can't believe a tiny little stone could cause that much pain. I couldn't watch anything remotely funny because even a small laugh made me double over in pain. Yeesh.
posted by UhLisa | 8:09 AM
4 Comments:
I once had a kidney infection and that pain was ridiculous and it knocked me out like I had a bad flu as well... I thought I was going to die.
As for the mommy stuff, since I was gutted like a fish (aka c-section), I had quite a bit of pain after Logan was born, but those nice doctors gave me percocet and that made it much better! But it just occurred to me that you might be talking about the contractions... mine weren't fun, but it was more like they were wearing me down over time... but again, that is what a nice epidural is for. The miracles of modern medicine baby!
I was actually thinking more about the abdominal region post-delivery. I can't imagine not wanting an epidural.
Epidurals are the BEST.
I wholeheartedly agree about epidurals! I never ever wanted to give birth without pain relief and the darveset post-delivery was fantastic, too! But, the nether region IS very sore for awhile after giving birth!
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