Guess where I landed myself... Again? To start, during my pregnancy I had really bad hunger pangs during my second trimester but they only happened like 3-4 times. I would suddenly feel deathly hungry but when I ate, the hunger pain got much, much worse and would eventually radiate to my back. It would last 30 or so minutes and then go away as quickly as it came. I didn't think much of them. I figured that my body was making more demands since I was growing a baby and it also didn't happen often. Well, on Tuesday, my "hunger pangs" came back. I had a really bad one Tuesday night but only one. Then, on Wednesday, I had one at 7pm and they've been pretty much back to back since then. It was a cycle of feeling really hungry, eating, being in pain for anywhere from 30 minutes to 2.5 hours, then getting a reprieve for several hours before starting all over again. I went to my family doc and she felt it was uncontrolled GERD causing issues. I was diagnosed with GERD before I got pregnant but went off my PPIs in the first trimester so it seemed entirely possible that it was a GERD issue. My doc couldn't find a PPI that was for sure safe to use while breastfeeding so she prescribed H2 antacids twice a day to see if that would help. She also put in an order for a H. Pylori lab. I went in Friday morning for the H. Pylori test and to my dismay, found out that it would take over a week to get results. At that point, I was avoiding eating; the pain of hunger was better than the pain I experienced when I ate. But, I'm currently nursing my son so I knew I couldn't go on like that forever. I called my doc to see what else we could do and she said that if I wasn't eating that I needed to go to the ER. I didn't go. I didn't go because I was just in the hospital 3 weeks before. I also wasn't sure what my original hospital bill looked like so the last thing I wanted to do was put myself in debt even further. (I have insurance, but I knew I was going to be billed atleast $4,000 for my C section) I decided to just try to wait it out until Monday when I could attempt to get in to see a gastroenterologist. I had noticed that water and other liquids didn't bother me so I decided to try a liquid diet and picked up a bunch of Ensures. Luckily, the Ensures agreed with me for the most part. I still had pain but it was very mild. By Sunday, I felt pretty good so I thought I was getting better. My roommate offered some garlic bread to me so I took a few bites. I waited 15-20 mins and had no pain so I thought it was safe to eat more since I always had pain immediately after eating. I ended up eating 2 slices of garlic bread and 2 bowls of my mother-in-law's pho since I was starving. That was at 1pm and at 5pm, I was knocked flat on my ass. I had the worst attack yet; I was stuck in bed, couldn't move, and had the chills that all lasted 2.5 hours. I ended up looking at my insurance online and to my ultimate relief found that I had reached my out-of-pocket limit which meant that any care I received would be 100% covered. So, I finally bit the bullet and went to the ER. Of course, by the time I got to the ER I had no pain. So, it was a little strange explaining myself to the docs when I was feeling perfectly fine. They did blood work to start and found that I had elevated liver enzymes and elevated bilirubins which suggested gallbladder issues so they ordered an ultrasound. The ultrasound revealed that I had gallstones in my gallbladder and in my bile duct. The stones were blocking my gallbladder and my pancreas. So, I was admitted to the hospital. Yesterday I had to have two procedures done. An endoscopy to remove the stones from my bile duct and then surgery to remove my gallbladder. They were originally going to do them separately but luckily they ended up doing them in one big procedure. So, only 24 days after leaving the hospital for my son's birth, I wounded back up in the hospital and under the knife again. :/ As I said, I had the surgery yesterday. I'm feeling pretty good for the most part. I have issues urinating on my own after surgeries and always need catheters and this surgery was no different. So, whether I leave or not today is all dependent on whether I urinate on my own or not, so keep your fingers crossed!! With being in the hospital, I had to leave my son at home since I refused to bring him to a place full of sick people. My husband, of course, just sohappens to be out of town so my mother and sister are watching the baby. I miss him like crazy so I can't wait to get home!!! tl;dr: I got really sick and stopped eating since Tuesday. Went to ER and ended up having my gallbladder removed. So, I've been in the hospital twice in one month.
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