No one has an answer for me..

[mj46]

On Feb. 1, 2011 I had a routine vein procedure on my R. leg and after being sent home (same day) I began to have a lot of pain all over my body, felt like I had pneumonia and drove myself to my local small hospital.  After several days there I was referred back to the surgeon that did the original vein procedure and my living nightmare began.  When I got back to the "bigger hospital" they discovered that I had a very bad staph infection and thus began the battle to save my life.  There are days and weeks that I have no recollection of at all.  Excruciating pain and weakness took over my life.  I am NOT SURE of the time table, but right in the beginning of this illness and fight to save my life, they decided that I NEEDED my gall bladder removed.  I vaguely remember arguing that I had NEVER had a gall bladder attack, WHY was the surgery necessary, etc. and was told that it "looked" like I had a blockage in the bile duct and the surgery was necessary.  Off to surgery I went late one night and thus began my REAL nightmare.   I couldn't eat, vomited bile constantly, lost 50 pounds in 5 weeks (while in the hospital,) was in and out of consciousness from reactions to antibiotics, horrible allergies to some, just bad reactions to others.  At one point I took a fall in my hospital room (which I don't remember at all) and had a huge hematoma on the back of my head.  I have continued to have nausea and vomiting until recently.  I have lost an additional 20 pounds since mid Match, when I was dismissed from the hospital.  My nausea has been helped by Phenergrin compound placed on my wrist throughout the day and evening.  I have continued to have pain (supposedly from the pneumonia I developed in the hospital) in the R. lung area and then it went into crackles after I came home as the lung "healed" and on inspiration of a breath I STILL have terrible pain and my physician says it is just pleuracy now.  When I inhale the pain is sometimes unbearable, my upper R. quadrant feels like I have "a round ball" inside of it IF I even try to lay on the R. side to rest or sleep.  Even leaning against the arm of the couch with my upper body causes extreme discomfort.  I have FINALLY given in and will let my physicial "scope" me to see what is going on in my stomach, because although the severe vomiting of bile is over, I still have terrible bouts of nausea and can eat very little without being nauseous.  My PA asked me the other day IF I had fallen on my R. side when I fell in the hospital room and I told him I don't even remember falling.  He wondered IF I might have cracked a rib and perhaps that is responsible for all the pain in my URQ and my problems taking "a breath" without a huge hitch hitting me as I take in the breath.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I AM eating OK now, just not full meals, which I realize WON'T hurt me, but I have continued to lose weight, no matter how much I eat.  I still have extreme bouts of nausea, have to "fight" to not vomit all the time, although that part is fading - the pain still persists in my URQ.  Any help or input would be greatly appreciated.  To be quite frank, I feel that my life was totally ruined when they did this "emergency" gall bladder surgery (lap) and although I needed to loose weight, losing so rapidly has caused this 65 year old body to become saggy, wrinkled and I lost extreme muscle mass which has left me very, very week, even unable to make it up stairs, walk any long distance or have any endurance at all...  HELP!!!

[patient915]

Welcome to the gastroenterology community!  It sounds like you don't really know what happened and why.  You need to get records from your entire hospital stay.  Sometimes it is a fight to get these records but you need to get them.  Until you get the records so you know what actually happened, I can't advise you as to what to do next.

Remember this: you don't know what your life would have been like now if they didn't remove your gallbladder.  You could be very very sick or dead, you never know.

[mj46]

I failed to mention one other piece of my puzzle that goes with my Gall Bladder surgery that I DON'T THINK I NEEDED or SHOULD HAVE HAD considering how weak I was at the time of my surgery.  While performing the laporascopy to remove my gall bladder, they NICKED my liver and I had a severe "belly bleed" as they called it when they told my daughter.  SO...  That began my shots of blood thinners in my abdomen because of the resulting blood clots, then they started giving me insulin because of other problems...  I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THAT ALL OF THIS HAPPENED TO ME as the result of a simple procedure to "strip" my vein the MODERN, MIRACLE WAY....  OMG!!!  WHAT A MESS it left me in...

[mj46]

This is me - mj46 again.  I FORGOT to mention that throughout my 5 weeks of hospitalization, my kidneys started failing.  I was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney disease and have also been seeing a kidney specialist since my release from the hospital.  My kidney disease is now a stage 3 and once again I HAD NEVER had kidney disease before.  I am wondering WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TO ME in the hospital.  WHAT DID THEY DO TO ME?