Going to the Emergency Room
By syramoon
@syramoon (654)
United States
May 11, 2012 12:11pm CST
About a week ago I went to the hospital with horrible upper stomach pains, I was scared that it was my goal bladder, but it turns out that I have gastritis. I've been taking the zantec the doctor put me on religiously and have been watching what I eat, and last night I thought I'd try out the bland beans and rice my friend's mom had made. Bad choice, my stomach has been killing me for the last 16 hours, and for the last 5 or so I haven't been able to hold anything down. At the moment I don't have a way to go anywhere until my room mate gets off of work in about 4 hours.
2 responses
@rewardsinlife (1132)
• United States
11 May 12
Call 911 if it gets too bad. Could be that the doctor missed something, and you are having other medical problems...especially if you can't keep anything down you risk dehydration as a complication. Did they do a CT scan to determine that is was gastritis and not something with your gall bladder?
@syramoon (654)
• United States
12 May 12
I ended up going shortly after posting this, my friend who hadn't answered the phone when I called stopped by to check on me. They did end up doing another CT scan and my gallbladder and appendix both are fine from what the scan showed. And the doctor believes my gastritis is aggregated by on going stress in life. I've only gotten a few hours of rest since I got home, but I am able to hold things down at least. They hydrated me at the hospital and gave me a GI cocktail along with things for nausea. When my stomach pain originally started the first time I went to the ER I thought it was my gallbladder, so I had made them check for it.
@geen1234 (111)
• Philippines
12 May 12
why do you think it is your gall bladder? you have a history of having illness in your gall bladder? last year i rushed to the hospital because of abdominal pain, it is pancreatitis, then when i got ultrasound, they accidentally found a polyps in my gallbladder, surgeon advice me to go under operation, so they removed my gall bladder. what about you?
@syramoon (654)
• United States
12 May 12
My reason for at first thinking it was my gallbladder was because I have a family history of it. Very few of my relatives on my father's side still have their gallbladder, and when I was telling my dad what was wrong with me, he said that's how he felt. But I've made them check everything in my upper abdomen so I'm pretty sure they're right and it's gastritis.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
13 May 12
Beans are the worst thing one can eat with gastritis, same with onions (or family of the onions). Did nobody tell you what kind of diet you should have???
You better calm down your intestines first, try yoghurt and eat small bits (very small bits) of food. Food you can digest easily like soup. Stay away from heavy cooked meals, cookies, sugar. Try pro-biotics (there are different kinds so you have to try out what works for you).