Horrible ER visit

Sorry Inxs, seems like you got a raw deal there. Maybe it was a particularly busy night or else the ER doc was simply too inexperienced with seriousness of obstructive Crohns. Sometimes they don't get how reluctant we are to go in, and how hard we try to manage at home before taking that final step.

Talk with your GI and ask him what you need to do when you have unresolving obstruction.

Don't let them get you down with such poor care, it does happen sometimes.

All the best... I guess you will stay on a liquid diet for a while, hydrate, and take pain meds. Perhaps a burst course of pred...

good luck.

i just cannot imagine this. the closest i can come is this

"hey i'm obstructed"
"you passing gas and poo?"
"yes, barely"
"not an emergency, go home."
"yeah well this has been going on for X and dr. so-and-so said to come in if i didnt get better, so here i am."
"oh okay i didn't realize it was crohnic"
*treatment happens*

i just don't understand how that could go awry

also i got the mad punz

I'm glad your doctor is taking it seriously and doing something about it. Most of my ER experiences could be divided 50/50 as competent or, like yours, ridiculous. I'm including my experiences with taking both my parents before they passed. It still makes me cry to remember how uncaring some of these ER staffers had been to my mother especially.

I totally feel your ER pain. A similar thing happened to me last week. I went into the ER after blacking out with severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Stayed in the ER for 15 hours....they did at least run some tests, but the doc on call was going to let me go with some anti-nausea meds because he thought everything was connected to a UTI. He said I had white blood cells in my urine, but the rest of the bloodwork looked ok. I tried to tell him it was more than that and that this was a Crohn's flare. He said I could have some pain meds until we got the CT scan results back and ended up giving me Dilaudid, which I had had a severe allergic reaction to. I became almost unconscious, had respiratory suppression, lost feeling in my legs, chest pains, then began profusely vomiting again. Needless to say, at that point, they decided to admit me. Then the CT results came back showing severe inflammation in my left descending colon. I wanted to say, "I told you so." No more local hospital for me. I am going back to Johns Hopkins where my actual GI is located. Still a 2 hour drive, but so worth it.

Hope you are starting to get some relief and some answers!