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652671 tn?1353712165

just wanted to whine a bit

yesterday was quite possibly the longest day i've had in like 10 years. I had been having pretty painful chest pain right in the middle of my chest for nearly four days when yesterday I got tired of it and called the OB/gyn. All I wanted was to see my doctor, in a small office. But no, they told me chest pain of any kind needs to be seen in the ER. Granted, it had been keeping me up at night and I lost my appetite altogether and had been vomiting for a few days, but I didn't want a big scene over it.

I was there for 8 hours!!!!!

chest xray, ultrasound of the legs, blood work, pokes and prods, needles and needles and more needles ... all to come to the assumption that I was experiencing SEVERE ACID REFLUX. The ER doc's brilliant excuse as to why I couldn't identify that myself?? I'M CARRYING A GIRL, AND GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT FROM BOYS, which is the only experience i had. Wow. so after all that, I get to buy zantac and go home. The zantac has worked beautifully, lol, but that's beside the point.

why couldn't MY doctor tell me that in an hour's visit? grr

I was just wondering if anyone one else has had frustrating bouts like the one that happened to me yesterday that have to do with baby. I really did need to whine a lil, lol
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1039620 tn?1272594004
I'm sorry you had such a rough day, though I am thankful that it was something easily fixable.
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358971 tn?1330888975
I"m sorry you had such an annoying experience but I think your doctor was right to error on the side of caution and have it checked out...it could have been something really scary like a blood clot, pnemonia, a heart issue. Still..i know you must be super annoyed and despite the logic..i would be too.
I don't have stories to share....but i'm sure others will!
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800427 tn?1324945719
im sorry, thats lame! last week i was having really bad upper stomach pain and wanted to know what was going on so i called the nurses line at my clinic to ask...(i've had a complicated surgery done on my stomach) so i wanted to make sure it was nothing to be really freaked about. the nurse called me back and was all conserned...wouldnt let me come in ..in a few days i had to come in that day and right then! she was like "you need to be seen right now"!! and she was all scary and freaked me out and i was all thinking there could be something wrong with the baby so i called df at work and he came home to take me to the doctors...there was no way in hell i was going alone! so we went and come to find out....the doctor said its just scar tissue from my surgery being pulled on as my abdomen stretches...really...scar tissue...what an emergency lol. the best part is they couldnt even do anything for me it was just like... bummer dude u got scar tissue...see you at ur next prenatal visit! so here i am previously all freaked out and made df come home from work for scar tissue...awesome! lol so yeah i know how you feel. but you can never be too careful when it comes to your kids...ugh still frusterating though!
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