abdominal / pelvic pain and extremely nauseated Posted: 11-07-07 05:17am
Two weeks (12 days to be exact) ago while
I was in bed I began to feel nauseated but
it only lasted about 1-2 hours. The
following night it came back and lasted
well in to the next day. A couple days
after I began having rib and back pain and
then pretty bad abdominal / pelvic pain. I
finally decided to go to the doctor eight
days after all of this started and he said
I had a bladder infection. The antibiotics
he prescribed worked fine and the
abdominal / back / rib pain went away.
Other symptoms have started to develop
though. I started to feel horrible
heartburn and had constipation. The nausea
"comes and goes" and is usually present
only at night when I'm in bed. I get this
throbbing feeling in my stomach that keeps
me awake for hours.
Last night I felt extremely nauseated and
every time I fell asleep I instantly woke
up and had to catch my breath - almost as
if I stopped breathing for a moment
(though I'm not sure of course).
Today, which is four days after I saw the
first doctor, I went to an urgent care
center and the doctor there said I was
fine and told me to take 20mg of pepcid
everyday for a month. He also told me to
eat foods that are high in fiber to help
my bowel movement. After taking a urine
sample he said I no longer had the bladder
infection and he also tested my blood
sugar level, which was fine. I forgot to
tell him about the incident the night
before but when I got home I didn't really
think anything of it because I was
confident that I would soon be better.
The pepcid helped my heartburn
dramatically, though I can still kind of
feel it. The thing that worries me now is
a have that throbbing in my stomach,
especially when I'm in bed and also my
breathing seems to become too shallow when
I'm really tired, along with waking up the
moment after I fall asleep to catch my
breath. And about an hour ago I noticed
that there's pain on the right side of my
lower back.
I'm terrified to fall asleep now and I
have chest pain (I'm thinking it could me
from the heartburn). What should I do? I
really feel that all of these problems are
an indication to something else going on
inside my stomach but when I told the
urgent care doctor he said that he doubted
that my infection and heartburn / nausea
were related.
I feel as if my symptoms are going to get
worse but I don't know what to do. I'm
afraid if I go to another doctor then
he'll just tell me nothings wrong. Should
I go to the hospital for this? I think
that they need to check out my stomach via
ultrasound but I'm not sure if they would
without a good reason...
I'm really scared. Please give me any
advice or info!