I was using baby wipes, antibiotic creams, creams to ease the burning and stinging and a hospital strength pain relieving spray. I also tried several kinds of diaper rash products, thinking that may help. However, nothing completely relieved those symptoms, or healed the rash, until after I had stopped taking the Benicar and the diarrhea had stopped.
December 3, 2011- I ended up going to the emergency room at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital @ Hamilton, again. I had severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal tenderness and pain that was quite intense. There was lab work done again and another abdominal ultrasound was done.
The results of that ultrasound showed my gallbladder to have been distended, with some sludge …show more content…
There were also only three small balls of it, and no obstructed biliary ducts were ever seen in either ultrasound I had during that illness. That being so, even if my increasing GI symptoms were due to gallbladder problems, they had just started in those recent months. They should not have made me so sick. Especially, not with symptoms every single day.
In the last month, or so, before I was hospitalized, my weight loss and symptoms started to become a frightening concern. I started losing weight at an alarming rate, and my symptoms kept getting increasingly worse. From the time of my ER visit, on December 3, 2011, to when I was admitted to the hospital, on January 3, 2012, I had actually lost another 23 more pounds in one month's time.
Although I had gained a lot of weight in recent years, due to insulin changes, that weight loss was not welcomed. It was the result of months of digestive symptoms that caused me a huge amount of discomfort and distress. They also took away from the quality of my life in an extreme way and eventually became debilitating. I had also lost too much weight, and that unhealthy weight loss combined with all the months of vomiting, diarrhea and malnutrition that I had, caused me to become very
December 3, 2011- I ended up going to the emergency room at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital @ Hamilton, again. I had severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal tenderness and pain that was quite intense. There was lab work done again and another abdominal ultrasound was done.
The results of that ultrasound showed my gallbladder to have been distended, with some sludge …show more content…
There were also only three small balls of it, and no obstructed biliary ducts were ever seen in either ultrasound I had during that illness. That being so, even if my increasing GI symptoms were due to gallbladder problems, they had just started in those recent months. They should not have made me so sick. Especially, not with symptoms every single day.
In the last month, or so, before I was hospitalized, my weight loss and symptoms started to become a frightening concern. I started losing weight at an alarming rate, and my symptoms kept getting increasingly worse. From the time of my ER visit, on December 3, 2011, to when I was admitted to the hospital, on January 3, 2012, I had actually lost another 23 more pounds in one month's time.
Although I had gained a lot of weight in recent years, due to insulin changes, that weight loss was not welcomed. It was the result of months of digestive symptoms that caused me a huge amount of discomfort and distress. They also took away from the quality of my life in an extreme way and eventually became debilitating. I had also lost too much weight, and that unhealthy weight loss combined with all the months of vomiting, diarrhea and malnutrition that I had, caused me to become very