I remember about
2 years ago when i started drinking alcohol (age around 19), i drank heavily and i usually always drank on a empty stomach... I remember one day what felt like longest hang over, it was about
a week or more of just constant stomach pain, chills, fever, having blood around my normal looking stool with white stuff on it, felt like i was ****ing dying. I thought it was cause of the alcohol. That was the first time I've seen blood in my stool( maybe a UC flare?). After that occurred i stopped drinking for awhile and things just went back to normal but i did return to drinking no too long after(probably month or two after but i didn't drink everyday, just like once or twice a month after that incident).
As the years pass i had bloody normal looking stool occasionally or every now and then... I told my parents about
it but they told me i was probably straining or ate a lot of dry foods.. I knew it was more then that cause i remember my incident but just pushed it aside. For about
the next 2 years i would have occasional NOT normal looking stool, it would be like diarrhea dark red or dark red mash potato pile of stool occasionally everyday or every other day, maybe once or twice a day or none at all. Until recently thou about
a week ago i had a lot of diarrhea (always dark red, knew it was most likely blood), at the time i was at my moms and my stool looked like just ground coffee all the way sunk at the bottom of the toilet hole, the stool made it look like the toilet was rusted at the bottom, i also had mash potato/mud texture pile of dark red stool as well. I went back to my dads and as soon as I got home we went to the diner, i couldn't finish my meal i felt bloated more then usual. Got home and had diarrhea a few times and more stomach pain then usual, later that night it was more diarrhea. The next day it didn't stop and i felt terrible, figured it would go away the next day but that same night I thought i was dying, nonstop diarrhea, pain, chills and difficulty sleeping, i thought i was going to die in my sleep that night (im really stubborn). told my dad i need to see doctor. Went to go see him and told him pretty much this story that I'm telling all of you guys right now, he said " I have no ****ing idea what you have. Your heart rate is up and you look pale, that tells me your blood count ( or white cells? i don't remember but something like that) is low and your body is using a lot of energy just to keep you awake. " My heart dropped. he told my dad " your son has been bleeding for 2 years, look at him hes pale and bleeding alot in his stool, his heart rate is up and hes close to decomposing he has to go to the ER NOW " Me being the unemployed broke ass that i am (excuse my language) I have no insurance and that's exactly what he was about
to ask me, i told him no he said " its going to cost you a arm and a leg " that i knew... forever in debt now and after reading what people with UC have to go through with i will forever more be in debt for the rest of my life. I'm pretty pathetic, i don't know how far I'm going to get without insurance and i have no money, i live with my parents and not doing crap and now i cant even not do crap cause I'm just crapting non stop (excuse me again) and i cant let my dad get like a 5k$-10k$ debt cause of me so its my responsibility, I'm 21 now (just turned 21 last December), i need a job and now its going to be harder with this condition... I could talk more about
why i suck at life but that's a different story- anyway, he told me i needed to go to the ER and i went. Doctors there hooked me up to IV took some blood samples (i noticed that almost the whole time there i felt, 'normal' no stomach pain or feeling super bloated or nauseated, maybe i have it stress related? cause as soon after i go out of hospital i felt crap again) and made me drink this liquid that would help them see what was in my stool or urine or something (i suck at listening, i have difficulty when given instructions or told something important, probably learning disability)after i finished drinking that i went to get a CAT scan, got hooked up and got this liquid put into my IV thing, felt like i pooping and urinating warm, it was used to see my inside while the x-ray went on, finished the x-ray and went back and waiting for the results. i then had to go to the bathroom and gave them my stool sample which looked like just a couple glasses of blood, it was disgusting. Doc told me i had okay blood results, i went back and waited, they told me that they think i have UC, they put me on prednisone 60mg a day (from reading a lot of stories here i feel like I've been given a triple dosage, is this normal for just barely starting prednisone? and they aren't 100% sure yet if I have UC)i now need to go back to that one doctor who made me go to the ER for the preparation of the colonoscopy because, i need one is what they said at the hospital, to see whats going inside me for sure. I left the hospital same day i got in and got home around afternoon, I started having symptoms again and a little more bloody even thou they did give me a dosage at the hospital before i left, that same night i had the chills which wasn't something i had, i asked my dad if he was cold (71 degrees ferinheight) he said no and looked at me crazy, he put a hand on my forehead and i didn't have a fever so i went back to sleep. I woke up today (around 2am) and I went to the bathroom so far 5 times total within 7 hours i believe... i have diarrhea probably about
once a hr, is that really bad :'( ? PLEASE Tell Me If It Is! I woke up today feeling some chills still, not constantly but every now and then, i think i have a fever, forehead and cheeks feel pretty warm. ( i don't know if its cause my symptoms are getting worse or maybe its the side affects of the meds? what do you guys think?) So I'm sitting here waiting for my dad to wake up so he can call the doctor to make an appointment today, it has to be before 1pm so my dad can take me before he goes to work, otherwise i cant walk there... i got no car or license (yeah I'm pretty sad). I'm so stressed out after reading about
Pancolitis etc and everyone else's stories. Of course other have it a lot worse. but seeing my financial problem Im afraid i might not make it through this and I don't have a GI either, how do i obtain one? and is it possible to get one without insurance that would cost too much, i feel like I'm just doing w/e the doctor at the hospital is saying and feel im going in this blind without having any other opinions. I'm so scared, i really don't want to die, Please help me!!!
Post Edited (MisterLonely) : 1/17/2014 8:42:58 AM (GMT-7)