nyxin
12-04-2003, 07:38 PM
hello everyone.
for a brief re-cap, i am the girl who had a difficult pregnancy, a really difficult delivery and 6 weeks later developed a near fatal colon infection. i have looked all over these message boards, some things helped me, alot of thing scared the crap out of me. i went from feeling pretty well to not being able to hold anything down for 2 weeks because i freaked myself out so much. i convinsed myself that i had AIDS, and got tested, it is negative, then i thought maybe cancer. i went through hell---ultra sounds, abrium enema, upper GI series, blood work....and so much stress it turned my life upside down.
i had the appointment with my surgeon today and everything looks great! no polyps, no dark spots, no ulcerations, no nothing. my blood work is perfect as well!!!!!! so big sigh of relief, no cancer no immune problems, no leukiemia.
so why can't i relax? i know this sounds horrible. i still have a very dull ache under my rib cage on the right side. the doc is going to send me to get an ultra sound of my gall bladder as they seem to go bad in my family. i told him about my anxiety, he is aware of my medication (xanax) and he is starting me on Prilosec OTC because he said i could have worried myself into an ulcer also. my doc said that he could see about getting a colonoscopy, but he didn;t think the insurance would cover it as my other test results were wonderful.
i guess i just want you all to know my story. you can tell me i am nutz, i can take it. or, if anyone out there can give me a cyber hug or reasurrance that they did a thourough job would be great. the doc said a barium enema is 85% conclusive, a colonoscopy is 95%, but they have to do the one first because of insurance reasons. that sucks. so i guess if they saw something i would be getting a colonoscopy right? i am sorry for sounding so mistrustful, but thias has all been in the last 6 months.
i am mentally fried. :blob_fire
for a brief re-cap, i am the girl who had a difficult pregnancy, a really difficult delivery and 6 weeks later developed a near fatal colon infection. i have looked all over these message boards, some things helped me, alot of thing scared the crap out of me. i went from feeling pretty well to not being able to hold anything down for 2 weeks because i freaked myself out so much. i convinsed myself that i had AIDS, and got tested, it is negative, then i thought maybe cancer. i went through hell---ultra sounds, abrium enema, upper GI series, blood work....and so much stress it turned my life upside down.
i had the appointment with my surgeon today and everything looks great! no polyps, no dark spots, no ulcerations, no nothing. my blood work is perfect as well!!!!!! so big sigh of relief, no cancer no immune problems, no leukiemia.
so why can't i relax? i know this sounds horrible. i still have a very dull ache under my rib cage on the right side. the doc is going to send me to get an ultra sound of my gall bladder as they seem to go bad in my family. i told him about my anxiety, he is aware of my medication (xanax) and he is starting me on Prilosec OTC because he said i could have worried myself into an ulcer also. my doc said that he could see about getting a colonoscopy, but he didn;t think the insurance would cover it as my other test results were wonderful.
i guess i just want you all to know my story. you can tell me i am nutz, i can take it. or, if anyone out there can give me a cyber hug or reasurrance that they did a thourough job would be great. the doc said a barium enema is 85% conclusive, a colonoscopy is 95%, but they have to do the one first because of insurance reasons. that sucks. so i guess if they saw something i would be getting a colonoscopy right? i am sorry for sounding so mistrustful, but thias has all been in the last 6 months.
i am mentally fried. :blob_fire