Comments on: Skip this post if you are sick of hearing about my kidneys http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/11/10/skip-this-post-if-you-are-sick-of-hearing-about-my-kidneys/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brandy http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/11/10/skip-this-post-if-you-are-sick-of-hearing-about-my-kidneys/comment-page-1/#comment-1649 Brandy Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:32:06 +0000 http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/11/10/skip-this-post-if-you-are-sick-of-hearing-about-my-kidneys/#comment-1649 Wow Shelby! You poor thing! Sounds like you have been to hell and back over the past few months. I have had kidney stones before, AND had a baby. Let me tell you that the pain from the kidney stones was worse then labor, so I can totally empathize with your discomfort. How frustrating it must be to know that things aren't right but the specilists can't seem to find anything. It is maddening how they have to keep passing people off to different types of specialist these days too! Maybe this one will be the one who can find out what is wrong. I sure hope so, for your sake. I stopped taking the pill a long time ago because it and I don't get along either. The nausea was like having morning sickness 24/7 and trust me, the one week I had it was more then enough. I ended up going off of it and having my husband get snipped. He was willing, and I couldn't take the side effects anymore. I'm sure that is probably not an option for you two though, since you are still so young and may want children one day. I do hope they can get you fixed up for your trip to Hawaii though. It is such a great place and will suck if you are not feeling well or up to enjoying it. Plus part of the fun of vacation is trying out new restaurants and new foods. If your not in the mood to eat then that is going to be difficult too. :( Do you think all of this was caused by the pill?, or just different issues that coincided with your starting it up again? I have never heard of anyone having pyelonephritis in connection with the pill, or breathing issues either. Is the pain in your chest related to the cold you got? I know I started with a sore throat a few weeks ago. It turned into a cold, then moved into my throat and chest. 5 weeks later I've done 10 days of Biaxin, and they now have me on 875mg Augmentin for the next 10 days to see if we can get rid of the sinus infection, and respiratory crap it has tranformed into. My doctor says it is the flu even though I have not had a fever or the symptoms that go along with it. I personally think he is full of crap! Sometimes I think the doctors are all just guessing at this stuff. It can be almost maddening when you know something is wrong, but they just discount you like you are a freaking moron. Then when it becomes serious they are like "oh...gee, maybe you were right" I want to just slap them sometimes. They don't realize how being sick wears on a person, and how much income is lost due to missing work. I mean really they don't have to worry about that. It is just so frustrating, and depressing! I do hope they figure out what is ailing you soon and that you will get to feeling better in the next week or so. I will send some happy healing vibes your way, who knows maybe it will work! At the very least, you have my utmost sympathy (for what thats worth) and I really do feel your pain. It sucks to be sick! Take care of you! Brandy Wow Shelby! You poor thing! Sounds like you have been to hell and back over the past few months. I have had kidney stones before, AND had a baby. Let me tell you that the pain from the kidney stones was worse then labor, so I can totally empathize with your discomfort.

How frustrating it must be to know that things aren’t right but the specilists can’t seem to find anything. It is maddening how they have to keep passing people off to different types of specialist these days too! Maybe this one will be the one who can find out what is wrong. I sure hope so, for your sake.

I stopped taking the pill a long time ago because it and I don’t get along either. The nausea was like having morning sickness 24/7 and trust me, the one week I had it was more then enough. I ended up going off of it and having my husband get snipped. He was willing, and I couldn’t take the side effects anymore. I’m sure that is probably not an option for you two though, since you are still so young and may want children one day.

I do hope they can get you fixed up for your trip to Hawaii though. It is such a great place and will suck if you are not feeling well or up to enjoying it. Plus part of the fun of vacation is trying out new restaurants and new foods. If your not in the mood to eat then that is going to be difficult too. :( Do you think all of this was caused by the pill?, or just different issues that coincided with your starting it up again? I have never heard of anyone having pyelonephritis in connection with the pill, or breathing issues either.

Is the pain in your chest related to the cold you got? I know I started with a sore throat a few weeks ago. It turned into a cold, then moved into my throat and chest. 5 weeks later I’ve done 10 days of Biaxin, and they now have me on 875mg Augmentin for the next 10 days to see if we can get rid of the sinus infection, and respiratory crap it has tranformed into. My doctor says it is the flu even though I have not had a fever or the symptoms that go along with it. I personally think he is full of crap!

Sometimes I think the doctors are all just guessing at this stuff. It can be almost maddening when you know something is wrong, but they just discount you like you are a freaking moron. Then when it becomes serious they are like “oh…gee, maybe you were right” I want to just slap them sometimes. They don’t realize how being sick wears on a person, and how much income is lost due to missing work. I mean really they don’t have to worry about that. It is just so frustrating, and depressing!

I do hope they figure out what is ailing you soon and that you will get to feeling better in the next week or so. I will send some happy healing vibes your way, who knows maybe it will work! At the very least, you have my utmost sympathy (for what thats worth) and I really do feel your pain. It sucks to be sick!

Take care of you!

Brandy

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